Like politics, all environmentalism is local. It’s the actions you take as you go about your day that determine the balance in your own personal carbon account with Mother Earth. Fortunately, it is actually very easy, thanks to actions taken…
Category: Electrified transportation
If the GO Train were electric, rail passengers would lighten their carbon impact on the planet
Imagine the GO train running on electricity. That is one of the recommendations of a transportation expert quoted in a very provocative article in today’s Toronto Star. Electrified GO Trains would represent a major improvement in travel through the GTA…
Succession planning in energy: aim high in steering
When I took driver’s ed, the instructor hammered away on two things: maintain a liberal following distance, and aim high in steering®. Keeping a good following distance is just common sense. Aiming high in steering—i.e., keeping your eyes a few…
Smoke-free at both ends: Toronto subway and its main power source are fighting carbon, possibly winning
Toronto’s subway trains carry thousands of passengers every hour through underground tunnels. This would be extremely difficult to accomplish if the traction power hurling the trains across the east-west line and up and down the north-south lines under the city…
Nanticoke Energy Centre II: a priceless already-paid-for Ontario asset
Ontario’s coal-fired power phaseout, scheduled to be complete by 2014, will leave eight perfectly good 455-megawatt coal-fired generating units idle. These are hugely valuable assets, built and paid for by the former Ontario Hydro (which was since split into a…