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Climate politics and carbon proprioception in Alberta: after the peace, a phony war?

by Stephen E. Aplin • July 23, 2018 • 3 Comments

It’s allegedly war, allegedly again, in the Alberta climate change policymaking debate. The (alleged) belligerents: the NDP government and oil industry on one side, the environmental lobby on the other. A recent article has the provincial NDP government and oil…

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The “official” case for carbon pricing: weak and wanting

by Stephen E. Aplin • June 26, 2018 • 4 Comments

Ontario has swung hard away from conventional environmental thinking. The incoming government, elected June 7, has signalled it is taking Ontario out of the cap and trade system its soon-to-be-predecessor took us into, and has cancelled a slew of similarly…

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The politics of green energy: Ontario, 2018

by Stephen E. Aplin • June 8, 2018 • 5 Comments

“Green energy is a scam.” So said Doug Ford, many times, en route to winning a massive majority government in Ontario on June 7. That statement, the sheer veracity of the content of which Kathleen Wynne, the soon-to-be-former premier, couldn’t…

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Ontario sleepwalking into more expensive electricity, more air pollution

by Stephen E. Aplin • February 6, 2018 • 12 Comments

In 3 short months, Ontarians will have the opportunity to participate in a public hearing on the future of the Pickering nuclear station. It is a very important hearing, and everyone who can participate should. Briefly, the upshot of the…

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A pleasantly surprising, and new, long player: welcome to nuclear power, Brookfield

by Stephen E. Aplin • January 16, 2018 • 2 Comments

After years of enduring tiresome greenwash-laden press releases about wind and solar power from rentseeking billion dollar companies like Berkshire Hathaway, Loblaw, and Tesla, I was refreshed and encouraged to see Brookfield Business Partners, a subsidiary of Canadian Brookfield Asset…

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Renewable energy in the Ontario cold snap: a technicolour dream, debunked in grayscale

by Stephen E. Aplin • January 4, 2018 • 28 Comments

Much of North America was in a deep freeze as 2017 waned and turned into 2018. Across Ontario temperatures two hours from midnight on New Year’s Eve in the relatively populated “south” part of the province ranged from minus 31…

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Item A1 Current concentration of CO2 in the global atmosphere:
414.99 parts per million
In the last hour:
  • Nuclear reactors contributed 100 % of total electrical power generated in-province.
  • 100 % of Ontario-generated electricity was carbon-free.
  • Nuclear reactors contributed 100 % of Ontario's carbon-free electricity.
Table A1: Total Ontario generation and related CO2, by fuel, in the hour preceding 12:05 on 2023-03-20
FUEL MWh CO2, tons
Nuclear 4,934 0
Hydro 0 0
Gas 0 0
Wind 0 0
Biofuel 0 0
Oil & Gas 0 0
Solar 0 0
TOTAL 4,934 0
CO2 intensity per kWh (CIPK) in the last hour: 0.00 grams.
This content is updated at 50 minutes past the hour. Refresh at that time to see latest available data. Sources: www.ieso.ca and EmissionTrak™
Table A3 Should we replace nuclear plants with natural gas-fired ones? This table compares actual Ontario grid CO2 emissions from the last hour with those from a grid in which gas has replaced nuclear.
Actual Ontario grid Gas replaces nuclear
0 2,714
0.00 550.00
Tons CO2
CIPK, grams
If gas had replaced nuclear last hour, Ontario power plants would have dumped enough CO2 to fill Rogers Centre 0.9 times. As it was, 0 tons were dumped, which would fill Rogers Centre 0.0 times.

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