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Latest NewsLooking at NB Power numbersW.E. (Bill) Belliveau 28 Aug 2010 Norm Rubin with the Toronto-based energy watchdog group Energy Probe says he is concerned that NB Power might be forced to go too far in cost-cutting efforts in order to freeze the power rate, postponing such things as required maintenance. "You have to be careful that you don't put too much financial pressure on a utility, especially one that's always been Crown-owned and hasn't been pressed before," he said. Times and Transcript N.B. Tories promise energy rate freeze, but expert questions wisdom behind planKevin Bissett, The Canadian Press 24 Aug 2010 Norm Rubin with Toronto-based energy watchdog group Energy Probe said he was concerned NB Power might be forced to go too far in efforts to cut costs in order to freeze the power rate, postponing such things as maintenance. "You have to be careful that you don't put too much financial pressure on a utility, especially one that's always been Crown-owned and hasn't been pressed before," he said. Winnipeg Free Press BloggerThe expensive (Ontario) way to reduce emissionsAldyen Donnelly
1 Sep 2010
The Ontario government’s plan to turn off coal and switch to biomass at the Atikokan Generation Station is a VERY expensive way to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Use products standards, not tariffsAldyen Donnelly
31 Aug 2010
Implementing tariffs to discriminate against environmentally subsidized imports is a horrible—and very 1950s—idea. Alternative EnergyWhy wind power is more complicated than people imagineTom Spears 8 Aug 2010 Expanding wind doesn’t fit with phasing out coal, says Norm Rubin of Energy Probe, a Toronto-based environmental policy organization. If these were pieces in a puzzle, “you couldn’t bang them together with a hammer.” The Ottawa Citizen Climate ChangeClimategate and the Big Green LieLawrence Solomon 15 Jul 2010 That isn’t my headline. It comes from The Atlantic, where Clive Crook its senior editor, yesterday took apart the recent spate of verdicts exonerating the Climategate scientists. For those who don’t know Clive Crook, he’s one of the world’s prominent journalists having been, among other things, a 20-year veteran at The Economist, 11 of them as its deputy editor. Oh, and Crook is also a long-standing believer in the view that climate change represents a threat to humanity. Financial Post Nuclear PowerBank's investment in Lepreau 2 'extremely remote at this point'Christine Dobby 23 Aug 2010 Norm Rubin, the director of nuclear research at Energy Probe, said it's conceivable that banks were involved as "lenders or facilitators," in that project but said he does not think any were involved as direct investors.
"Maybe CIBC will join the list of gutsy nuclear cowboys that used to Telegraph-Journal Utility ReformHydro prices 'going up like a rocket' Don Butler 23 Aug 2010 Electricity prices in Ontario are "going up like a rocket," fuelled in part by the Ontario government's Green Energy Act, says a longtime observer of the province's energy scene. "You are going to get screwed, and it's going to be painful," said Tom Adams, a Toronto-based consultant and a former executive director of Energy Probe. The Ottawa Citizen |
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