Outside temperatures in Thunder Bay Ontario at around 7:30 local time this morning are -14°C, which with the windchill feels like -20°C. It’s probably safe to say that most of Thunder Bay’s 121,000 residents are indoors: either inside the city’s…
Author: Stephen E. Aplin
Yawning China dominates Bitcoin mining with cheap baseload electricity: Canada can help
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Green energy, the Green Party, and Germany’s governance crisis: the McGuinty Syndrome?
Dalton McGuinty, Ontario’s most recent former premier, might have in mid-2011 whispered a rueful warning to German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the political wisdom of green energy: “note the world values survey when it comes to paying money to help…
The Iron Chancellor and the Iron Rule: Merkel struggles to explain reality to game-theorizing Greens
Angela Merkel is as dexterous and tough in domestic affairs as Bismarck was in foreign affairs, so I mean no disrespect to her or any German when I give her Bismarck’s nickname The Iron Chancellor. I mean quite the opposite:…
Canadian federal anti-coal Crusader-in-Chief in Bonn: shooting at the host?
Why is Canada’s federal environment and climate change minister in Bonn, of all places, lecturing the world on how not to make electricity? Bonn, I will remind you, is in Germany (when I was growing up, it was the capital…