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...
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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...
Political will and leverage in Ontario: if not now, when?
Shortly after the unprecedented earthquake and tsunami wreaked horrific destruction on the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, Ontario energy minister Brad Duguid said he has no intention of changing the province’s plan to build new nuclear reactors at the Darlington station east of Oshawa on Lake Ontario. This statement was remarkable. Duguid...
Will first post-Fukushima election happen in Canada?
Yesterday the Canadian minority federal government took a step toward its own demise when it tabled a budget that none of the opposition parties said they would support. We will know soon whether the government can or will work out a deal with another of the federal parties. If it cannot or will not...
Ontario’s Long Term Energy Plan: pay lots of money for small carbon reductions
Nobody should be surprised by anything in the Long Term Energy Plan the Ontario government released last week. The biggest question is what will replace coal-fired generation, which the government has promised to phase out. Coal has historically provided 20–25 percent of the province’s power. The LTEP leads off by saying conservation will do part of that,...
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