Tag Archives: green energy

Lawrence Solomon: Why Jews like climate policy

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Lawrence Solomon

The Jewish drive to protect Israel by promoting nuclear and renewables was counterproductive, because it helped send society down the wrong road. Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change | Tagged energy independence, foreign policy, green energy, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, middle east, nuclear, oil states, renewables, solar, wind, Zionism | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: The Green Goliath takes on nuclear

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Lawrence Solomon

The renewable industry is wrong to claim that it is cost effective. Continue reading →

Posted in Nuclear Power | Tagged environmentalism, Feed-In Tariffs, green energy, Hormesis, Lawrence Solomon, nuclear, Nuclear Power, OSEA, Provincial Auditor, Radiation, renewables, solar, wind | Leave a comment

Parker Gallant: Auditor General of Ontario Missed Exaggerated Coal Generation Health Costs

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Other News Sources

The Auditor General of Ontario’s report of December 5 dealing with “Renewable Energy Initiatives” highlighted wasted spending commitments of billions of dollars that will fall on the backs of the ratepayers. The report offers up several recommendations which are immediately followed by responses by the Ministry of Energy on how it will deal with those recommendations. Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged coal, electricity, energy, green energy, nuclear costs, Ontario electricity, Parker Gallant, Renewable Energy, renewables, wind power | 2 Comments

Ontario Energy Prices: Frankly Bogus

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Other News Sources

Omitted Costs, Inflated Benefits, a study I co-authored with Glenn Fox for the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society a week ago, has been discovered by the media and the Ministry of Energy. While we will have to wait until October 20th to hear the cabinet appointments by Premier McGuinty, that didn’t stop the Legislature’s most recent Minister of Energy, Brad Duguid from commenting on the study. Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Probe News, Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Renewables | Tagged Brad Duguid, electricity, green energy, Ontario electricity, Parker Gallant, Renewable Energy | 5 Comments

Ontario’s Power Trip: The $4000 electricity bill

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Other News Sources

For the average ratepayer, an annual electricity bill will escalate from $1,700 per year to $2,800 by 2015 and by the time the renewables envisaged in the LTEP are largely in place (expected in 2018) an average ratepayer will be paying in excess of $4,000 annually — well over a doubling. Put another way Ontario’s ratepayers will be paying in excess of 40¢ per kWh, placing them on a par with Denmark, which suffers the highest cost of electricity in the developed world. Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Probe News, Power Generation in Ontario, Reforming Ontario's Electrical Generation Sector, Renewables | Tagged Glenn Fox, green energy, LTEP, nuclear energy, Ontario electricity, Parker Gallant, Renewable Energy, renewables, subsidies, wind power | Leave a comment

Ontario’s Green Energy Backlash: Politicians Exploit Growing Opposition To Wind Turbines, Solar

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 27, 2011) Ian Harvey of the Huffington Post takes a look at how newbie premier Hubak’s proposed policy changes will affect renewable energy in the province of Ontario. The entry notes Energy Probe’s conclusions that the FIT scheme is a “disaster” as it breeds reliance on nuclear energy on days when the weather is not conducive to renewable energy generation. Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Renewables | Tagged Canada Business News, green energy, Green Energy Act, Hudak Green Energy, Hudak Turbines, McGuinty Green Energy, McGuinty Hudak Green Energy, McGuinty Turbines, Ontario Green Energy, Ontario Green Energy Act, Ontario Turbines, Ontario Wind Power, Wind Concerns Ontario, wind turbines | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Go fish — wind developers forced to shut down to protect salmon stocks

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 19, 2011) Wind farms not only threaten the landscape, they also threaten marine life, as wind developers in Washington State just learned to their dismay. The Bonneville Power Authority, a major power utility in the Columbia River system, has ordered wind producers feeding unwanted power into its grid to shut down their operations to protect salmon stock. Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Renewables | Tagged Bonneville Power Authority, BPA, electricity, green energy, hydro dams, hydroelectricity, industrial wind turbines, IWT, Lawrence Solomon, nuclear, power prices, renewables, salmon, salmon migration, subsidies, wind, wind farms, wind power, wind turbines, windmills | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Renewables now bigger than nuclear

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 18, 2011) The world now has more renewable electricity capacity than nuclear capacity, according to a recent report from the Worldwatch Institute. According to its World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2010–2011, just four types of renewables — wind, small-scale hydro, solar, and biomass – accounted for 381 gigawatts (GW) of capacity at the end of 2010, edging past nuclear power’s 375 GW of capacity. Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Renewables | Tagged biomass, coal, electricity, fossil fuel generation, green energy, industrial wind turbines, IWT, Lawrence Solomon, natural gas, nuclear, power prices, renewables, solar electricity, subsidies, wind, wind farms, wind power, wind turbines, windmills, Worldwatch | Leave a comment

FP Letters to the Editor: We are green, EDC says

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 12, 2011) Re: “Greening Harper,” Lawrence Solomon, May 7 Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Renewables | Tagged AECL, EDC, ethanol, Export Development Canada, FP Letters To The Editor, green energy | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: What Hudak failed to say

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 11, 2011) In a much ballyhooed speech yesterday, would-be Ontario Premier Tim Hudak promised to kill the financing method that Premier Dalton McGuinty uses to build wind turbines. But Hudak doesn’t promise to kill wind turbines. He merely proposes some alternative financing method, not yet described, to bring Ontarians more wind turbines. Hudak’s wind turbines will also be uneconomic, just less so than McGuinty’s. Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Renewables | Tagged 2009, Dalton McGuinty, electricity, GEA, green energy, Green Energy Act, Green Energy and Green Economy Act, hydro, industrial wind turbines, IWT, Lawrence Solomon, Ontario, Ontario energy, power prices, rate payers, renewables, subsidies, Tim Hudak, wind, wind farms, wind power, wind turbines, windmills | 2 Comments

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