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Latest NewsWind opponents blow off steam in CreemoreJoanne Saunders 9 Mar 2010 The Collingwood Connection A March 6 meeting, outlining the downside of wind turbines, drew close to 200 people to Creemore's Station on the Green. Only six or eight people would have shown up 18 months ago, said one speaker, concluding that the groundswell of opposition to wind turbines is gaining momentum. The burden of believing in global weirdingRichard Handler 9 Mar 2010 CBC That's why I think "climategate" was such a happy event for the global warming deniers. The term for the hacked emails from some of the world's top climate change scientists, it supposedly showed that these UN researchers were politically driven, worried about how their research would play out on the public stage. They were not dispassionate scientists, their critics said. They were simply advocates. BloggerResidential electricity users will finance any cap-and-trade or feed-in tariff schemeAldyen Donnelly
10 Mar 2010
I have pointed out, previously, that every nation that relies heavily on carbon taxes and/or feed-in tariffs as GHG mitigation/climate change measures has ended up delivering massive and continuing green subsidies to industry—while passing more than 100% of the incremental cost of carbon taxes, cap-and-trade compliance costs and Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) to their residential customer bases. Is it a "fact" just because a tenured professor says it is?Aldyen Donnelly
2 Mar 2010
Dr. Jaccard's recommended regulatory and policy recommendations are ineffective and inefficient, largely because they are made to fit a theoretical world and not the real one we live in. It is not sufficient for Dr. Jaccard to look up the facts and integrate them—although that is a first step—into his modelling. Most importantly, he needs to start asking and exploring one key question: why does the world not actually work as per his theory? It is only through the exploration of the variance between his modelled world and the real one we live in that he can position himself to truly grasp how investment and consumption decisions are formed and to then develop policy and regulatory recommendations that have a chance at being effective and efficient. Alternative EnergyBlowing away taxpayersMichael J. Trebilcock 6 Mar 2010 Financial Post Wind power is unreliable, expensive and doesn’t result in lower C02 emmissions. Why is Ontario still rushing ahead with it? Climate ChangeGlobal warming: a theoretical factWill Conroy 5 Mar 2010 The Chimes online The concept of manmade global warming - the idea that global temperature is increasing as a result of the green house effect from pollutants like CO2 that come from the industrialization of society - has become widely known. But the basis for such conclusions is yet to be proven and the claim of a scientific consensus by those like Al Gore and Prime Minster Gordon Brown, is unequivocally wrong. Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe and Lawrence Solomon of the National Post say the opinion is hardly unanimous, noting thousands of scientists that dissent from such a consensus. Nuclear PowerFaith in fissionLawrence Solomon 20 Feb 2010 Financial Post Environmentalism is the religion of the left, but many on the right blindly follow a misguided dogma of their own: nuclear power. Utility ReformNorman Rubin discusses solar power in OttawaEnergy Probe 12 Jul 2009 Ottawa Citizen Energy Probe’s own Norman Rubin was recently quoted in an article in the Ottawa Citizen examining the approval of subsidies for a 200-acre farm in West Carleton, just west of Ottawa. As part of the program, the government will pump at least $100-million for the construction of 300,000 solar panels. |
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