An interesting exchange of diplomatic letters between the U.S. State of Michigan and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission on the matter of the proposed underground nuclear waste repository on the Canadian side of Lake Huron highlights the concern on the…
Category: Ontario Power Generation
Smart choices in Ontario electricity: it’s all about what is proven and clean
Today’s Toronto Star has a story by John Spears featuring the natural gas lobby’s take on how the Ontario Long Term Energy Plan should be revised. Spears writes this: “Without being explicit, [Enbridge president] Guy Jarvis issued a carefully worded…
Today’s coffee, without Ontario nuclear power: a depressing counter-factual look at the brave new green world
My coffeemaker, a 1995-vintage Hamilton-Beach automatic drip filter machine, takes roughly eight minutes to make four cups of coffee. The appliance is rated at 1000 watts (one kilowatt), which means that in those eight minutes it uses roughly 0.133 kilowatt-hours.…
Wasting water: Ontario’s Environmental Disconnect of the Day
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…
Is biomass-fired power generation carbon-neutral?
Tables 1 and 2 in the left-hand sidebar of this blog give hourly and so-far-daily snapshots of the energy sources that power Ontario’s electricity grid. As you can see, there are five fuel types: coal, gas, hydro, nuclear, “other,” and…