Tag Archives: Lawrence Solomon

Lawrence Solomon: Atwood’s library

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Lawrence Solomon

(August 5, 2011) Toronto has an extraordinary library system with close to 100 branches. The former is mostly about books; the latter mostly about everything but books. This is true of most Canadian cities, where the great history of building public libraries to bring books to the people is running up against rapidly changing cultures and technologies. Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged budget, budget cuts, fix your city, KPMG, Lawrence Solomon, Margaret Atwood, Mayor Ford, municipal financing, NGOs, privatization, retail, Toronto, Toronto Public Library, TPL | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Fix Your City – KPMG cuts are merely cautious

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Lawrence Solomon

(July 29, 2011) “Even if city council votes for a fraction of the several hundred millions of dollars in suggested cuts, the cuts suggested by city-hired consultants KPMG could transform the city,” the Toronto Star warned last week in an article about proposed budget cuts under Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BIA, budget, budget cuts, Business Improvement Area, deregulation, fix your city, KPMG, Lawrence Solomon, Mayor Ford, municipal financing, privatization, retail, Toronto | 1 Comment

Lawrence Solomon: If Europe breaks Palestine, it will have to clean up the mess

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Lawrence Solomon

(July 27, 2011) There is something the Europeans, who assume a hypothetical, independent Palestine, have overlooked: Without Israeli good will, a Palestinian state couldn’t support itself. Continue reading →

Posted in Energy Probe News, International | Tagged Europe, European Union, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, Palestine, Palestinian State, U.S, UN | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: It’s official – climate alarmists know less and can’t count too well

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Other News Sources

(July 5, 2011) Surprising findings lead researchers to recommend science be taught differently, to enable skeptics to arrive at correct conclusions. Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, The Deniers | Tagged academia, Climate Change, climate change deniers, climate change propaganda, climate change skeptics, climate change survey, culture, Global Warming, global warming propaganda, global warming sceptics, global warming survey, Junk Science, Lawrence Solomon, National Academies of Sciences, polls, propaganda, science, surveys | 1 Comment

Lawrence Solomon: Liberate U.S. oil

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Other News Sources

(July 5, 2011) Richard Nixon was the first U.S. president to vow and fail to wean the United States off its dependency on Middle Eastern oil. Barack Obama will be the last. The United States today has the wherewithal to become independent in energy. Once Obama goes, it will also have the will. Continue reading →

Posted in Oil, Shale Oil | Tagged drilling, Eagle Ford, Eagleford, energy, energy independence, environmentalism, foreign oil, Gulf spill, Lawrence Solomon, Obama, offshore drilling, oil imports, oil independence, OPEC, Shale Oil, tight oil, United States, Yergin | Leave a comment

The Politics of Alternative Energy (3): The Need for Public Ownership of the Carbon “Idea”

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Other News Sources

(July 4, 2011) “If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created”. These words of economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek’s today resonate loudly in the carbon “idea” – that the West should fast-track a low-carbon economy no matter what the socio-economic cost. Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Renewables | Tagged carbon, carbon emission targets, carbon emissions, carbon reduction goals, climate, CO2 issues, cost issues, decarbonisation, domestic fuel bills, fossil fuel energy, fuel poverty, green taxes, Lawrence Solomon, lower-carbon economy, Michael J. Economides, Peter C. Glover, Renewable Energy, Sam Laidlaw, utility cost, wind farms | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Polar opposites

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Other News Sources

(July 1, 2011) A decision by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan becomes a different story through a media lens. Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, The Deniers | Tagged Climate Change, environmentalists, Global Warming, Lawrence Solomon, polar bears | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Supreme skeptics

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Other News Sources

The justices of the United States Supreme Court this week became the world’s most august global warming sceptics. Continue reading →

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Israeli Oil: Black Gold in the Holy Land

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Other News Sources

(June 18, 2011) On Tuesday, June 14, Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. announced it had requested a petroleum exploration permit to develop large shale oil deposits in the Shfela Basin, 30 miles west of Jerusalem. Continue reading →

Posted in Fossil Fuels, Shale Gas, Shale Oil | Tagged Energy Probe, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, Oil, OPEC, Sarah Siskind, saudi arabia, Shale Oil | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Israeli oil could bust the OPEC cartel

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Other News Sources

(June 13, 2011) The old energy order in the Middle East is crumbling and a new energy order is emerging to give the West some spine. In this new order, Israel is a major player. Continue reading →