To dump or not to dump: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in Ontario to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous phony-green profiteering, or to take arms against a sea of carbon dioxide emissions, and by opposing—i.e., by extending the operating license of the Pickering nuclear generating station, which spews no carbon—end them……
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U.S. “green” group gunning to get on Oil and Gas payroll (if they’re not already on it)
I recently received a press release from the U.S.-based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) announcing a “major new solution to cut existing coal-fired emissions by 26 percent.” Ever since reading David Ogilvy’s highly entertaining Confessions of an Advertising Man—which tells readers that putting big dramatic words like “major” and “new” into advertising headlines is almost always effective—I…
Pro-fossil “greens” silent as Ontario Liberals pay price for “green” power
Days before the October 2011 Ontario provincial election, the incumbent Liberals were forced to cancel a carbon-belching gas-fired power plant construction project in Mississauga. Community opposition was loud and pointed enough to tell the Liberals, who held the electoral district in which the plant was sited, that they had better cancel it or lose the…
Occupy Ottawa update II: it’s still possible to run on grid power
A lot of the criticism of the Occupy phenomenon has centred on its general incoherence on substantive policy. What do the Occupiers want? The movement started with Occupy Wall Street, which might suggest disapproval of the Wall Street bailouts from 2008 and 2009 and a belief that the Street brought the financial calamity on itself.…
Guest post by Donald Jones: “An alternative Long Term Energy Plan for Ontario—an 80/20 nuclear/hydro generation mix by 2045”
When planning Ontario’s future electricity supply mix we have to answer the question, what should we be aiming for 35 to 40 years from now, and how are we going to get there? 35-40 years because that’s when our 10,000 MW of “to be refurbished” nuclear will be decommissioned and new generation would have to…
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