Infra-red water faucets are now a fixture (pun intended) in many public washrooms. Everybody appears to have bought in to the conservation mantra: use as little as possible. Chief among the purveyors of the conservation ideology are the mainstream environmental organizations. These groups also push for renewable energy in the form of wind turbines and…
All Bruce Power nuclear reactors are running, as of just this afternoon. This is the first time since 1996 that the plant’s 8 units have all been running, and the first time in Bruce Power’s history. As I mentioned in early April, Bruce Power is a hugely successful public-private partnership that began in 2001 in…
The gas plant fiasco in Ontario is the direct outcome of the Green Energy Act (GEA). Natural gas is portrayed as “clean” by those who sell it, even though between midnight and nine a.m. this morning provincial gas plants had dumped more than 15,000 metric tons of pollution into our air (see Table 2 on…
In the movie Zero Dark Thirty, the character Maya tries to shame her boss into taking action on her discovery of bin Laden’s whereabouts by writing, each day, the number of days since she made her discovery on her boss’s office window. When the running total reaches 1,000, her boss—who earlier in the movie rages…
Since Obama became president, I have wondered if he would ever make good on the lofty promises of action on climate change that he made in his 2008 election campaign. Every time he says something on the topic, my heart rises with hope and excitement, just like Charlie Brown’s does when Lucy entices him into…
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