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Ontario’s Power Trip: The great electricity bill cover-up
Ontarians will pay $319 more per year for green energy soon — despite government denials By Bruce Sharp The Ontario green-energy ship is taking on water and yet one would never know it from how the...
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Lawrence Solomon: Green power failure
Climate mania impoverishes electricity customers worldwide Global-warming-related catastrophes are increasingly hitting vulnerable populations around the world, with one species in particular danger:...
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Blown away
Bloomberg NewsA worker stands on top of a turbine at a wind farm near Dundalk, Ont. Rural residents find consultation on wind projects a sham Many political economists argue that environmental...
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Ontario’s Power Trip: Happy FIT day
Mondial Energy Inc.Ontario developers are rushing to get their share of the billions being handed out in solar subsidies. Wind and solar now cost $4-billion a year Pop the champagne, Ontario. September...
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Ontario’s Power Trip: Hiding the gas fiasco
NPA 2010 Toronto protest against a gas plant then planned for Oakville, Ont. Oakville contract breach may cost hundreds of millions The Ontario government, perpetually digging itself out from under...
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Lawrence Solomon: Why gasoline wins
Electric and CNG cars cost more but do less Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, this week abandoned plans to mass-produce electric vehicles, to the dismay of anti-oil activists, both...
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Ontario’s Power Trip: How the Liberals drove electricity prices up 100% — by...
The paper trail revealed Back on March 31, 2004, Energy Minister Dwight Duncan uttered these words in the Ontario Legislature in response to a question on the Liberals energy policy; “If we address...
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Ontario’s Power Trip: The $733-million gas boondoggle — by Bruce Sharp
Costs to move Ontario natural gas generating plant will exceed $733-million It’s hard for one to choose the lesser of two evils from the saga of additional costs arising from moving the site of...
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Terence Corcoran: Global coalification
ReutersCoal is booming in China. Why try to curb coal power when Europe and Asia are massively expanding? I’ve been looking into the coal industry, in a superficial way. And here’s the scoop. The coal...
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Terence Corcoran: Mrs. McGuinty on strike!
Ontario premier ‘reinvented’ big government. Now voters pay the price Dalton McGuinty, premier of a minority Ontario government that last month banned strikes in the public service, has called a...
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Green zombie
CPAfter Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty started handing out billions, green carpetbaggers around the world smelled the money and came running. 56,000 documents reveal Ontario’s energy disaster Over the...
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Terence Corcoran: McGuinty’s dark secrets on cancelled power plants revealed
Documents show cancelling Oakville plant alone will cost $1-billion As Premier Dalton McGuinty prorogued the Ontario legislature and announced his retirement last month, he would have known that some...
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Peter Foster: Superstorm vs. teacup tempest
TransCanada issue is nothing compared with Sandy-sized McGuinty scandal The commentaries in this paper on Wednesday by Terence Corcoran and Tom Adams about the horrendous waste, foot-dragging and...
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Ontario’s Power Trip: Dalton McGuinty, power puppeteer
ReutersOntario Premier Dalton McGuinty announces his resignation Oct. 15. Premier’s Office overwhelmed bureaucrats on gas-plant scandal The 56,000 pages of documents associated with the Ontario...
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Alberta did it right
PostmediaAn Alberta power plant owned by the widely held TransAlta Corp. Beat Ontario in bringing competition to power markets Beyond Premier Dalton McGuinty’s resignation and the partisan jousting...
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Muskrat folly
Newfoundland pushes project to exact revenge on Quebec The governments of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Canada have teamed up to deliver what may prove to be the worst hydroelectric project ever in...
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Canada reaps Ontario’s whirlwind
BloombergA worker welds a wind-turbine tower at an Ontario plant. Feds forced to defend Ontario’s local-content rules on wind and solar equipment The World Trade Organization, in 2011 and 2012,...
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Peter Foster: Shell’s solar scenario fantasies
Has been in the scenario business for 40 years, but offers no updates on accuracy It is a truism of forecasting that the further out you look, and the broader your perspective, the more wrong you will...
View ArticleWind turbines like ’nightmare neighbours’ but law ’rigged,’ court told
LONDON, Ont. — Wind turbines are like new neighbours who might drive you to distraction and out of your home because you have no legal way to deal with the situation, a packed Ontario court heard...
View ArticleFamilies failed to prove wind turbines harmful, government lawyer argues
Families opposed to the erection of large-scale wind farms near their homes failed to prove the projects would cause any serious harm to their health, an Ontario government lawyer said Tuesday. In his...
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