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Save the forests – Sell the trees
(August 25, 1989) Wherever trees grow on private land, forest owners seem to draw the ire of their governments. The government of Ontario has a problem with the way many of its small, private woodlot owners tend their forests: They won’t cut down their trees. The government’s surveys conclude that these smallholders–mostly farmers, professionals and retirees, who control more than 10 million acres of timberland–have what the government’s experts call “a rather indifferent attitude” toward their land. Continue reading
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The Federal Regulation of Electricity Exports
(October 27, 1986) Energy Probe Research Foundation, an independent think tank on energy issues funded primarily by some 20,000 supporters across Canada, supports the government’s desire to deregulate the electricity export sector, as we have supported prudent deregulation in the entire energy sector. Continue reading
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Massive power projects built to export are risky
(August 5, 1985) WANTED: One million investors to put up $2,000 each to finance risky venture. Investors must be willing to wait until the year 2001 for first profits. If interest rates and value of dollar do not perform as forecast to the year 2005, profits may never materialize. This want ad hasn’t appeared in any newspaper, but the venture described, the construction of a massive hydro dam to sell electricity to the U.S., is proceeding at full power. Continue reading
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Aid that hurts
(July 18, 1985) When the public isn’t involved, foreign aid can backfire on us and on the Third World. Continue reading
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Who’s going anti-nuclear now? Business, that’s who!
(June 11, 1985) It’s a familiar story: government and the nuclear industry lined up in favour of building more reactors; consumer groups and environmentalists lined up in opposition. But now there’s an unlikely twist. The most powerful business lobbies on the continent are entering the fray, and they’re turning their big guns against the nuclear establishment they once endorsed. Continue reading
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