American Electric Power (AEP), one of the biggest power generators in the U.S., recently settled a lawsuit that alleged it violated clean air laws. AEP agreed to pay over $6 billion to install pollution control devices at 16 of its coal-fired plants. Five of the plants are in Ohio, a regulated state, which means...
Natural gas
Electricity or gas: what’s cleaner?
Back in May, I talked about the environmental advantages of electricity over natural gas for space heating. Most people think electricity is the last fuel you should use to heat your home. In provinces like Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, they’re right: you’d be better off using natural gas. But electricity in...
Electricity as an Ontario election issue: what is reality?
Readers of this blog may have noticed my disdain for the mainstream environmental movement’s take on electricity investment in Canada. I think the greens are a bunch of Luddite misanthropists (see article). They either don’t understand basic things about modern electricity systems, or they do understand them and advocate policies that are harmful nevertheless....
Rate debate: will Ontario re-regulate electricity?
Last week, CIBC World Markets predicted that closing Ontario’s coal plants would result in electricity price hikes of 60 to 70 percent. This is based on a CIBC economist’s assumption that coal’s main replacement would be natural gas. The assumption is correct, but only if you believe the Liberal government’s pledge that it won’t...
Coal-fired power and premature death: another wave of pseudo-statistics from the natural gas lobby
Last week, the Ontario Clean Air Alliance and Toronto Environmental Alliance demanded that Ontario stop exporting coal-fired power to the U.S. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty “knows that the pollution from coal-fired electricity kills Ontarians,” said the TEA’s Franz Hartmann. Hartmann’s death-by-coal claim is based on a series of reports from a few years ago,...
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