The Ontario Auditor General has lambasted the (former majority) Liberal government for a litany of shortcomings in policy and implementation over the past few years. A lot of media focus has been on the so-called Green Act which forces electricity rate-payers to pay premium prices for low-quality “green” power, and the implementation of which...
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Greenpeace’s pork-fueled Brave New World
Finally Greenpeace has found a solution to the problem of unreliable wind generation: pork. The world’s biggest and richest “environmental” multi-national has long been criticized for pushing a methane-based electricity future. Most methane comes in the form of natural gas, which is of course a carbon-heavy fossil fuel. Natural gas-fired power plants are necessary...
An atomic gift to keep Santa dry at the North Pole: what’s on MY wish list of giveable gifts?
A PR rep working for the David Suzuki Foundation contacted me today about an awareness and fund-raising campaign premised on the melting of the North Pole because of climate change. Under this premise, Santa Claus has to relocate. Where will he move to? I was directed to the fund-raising website, called “Where will Santa...
Dithering in Durban: no nuclear, no climate progress
Another world climate conference in an exotic remote location, another hundred or so airplane tankfuls of kerosene turned into carbon dioxide (CO2) and dumped into the atmosphere—all in the name of getting together to talk about how not to dump so much CO2 into the atmosphere. Is that how the Durban conference will go...
Occupy Ottawa update: why they’re using gasoline
Following on my rather judgmental November 16 post, I just spoke to some of the protesters at Occupy Ottawa. Very friendly people. I asked about the gasoline generator that is providing power to the site: couldn’t they just plug into the grid? They told me the National Capital Commission (NCC), which owns Confederation Park,...
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