Category Archives: Energy

(May 29, 2004) Trinidad and Tobago, a tiny island nation with vast natural gas reserves that it can’t easily export, earlier this week inked a deal with aluminum giant Alcoa that points to progress for both parties, and for us. Continue reading →

(December 6, 2003) For four decades, in three provinces, under Liberal, Conservative and NDP governments alike, nuclear power has brought Canadians nothing but grief. In New Brunswick, nuclear power has all but bankrupted NB Power. The utility now has negative net worth and an insecure supply of power, all because its big gamble in building its one nuclear plant – which accounts for 30% of that small province’s production when operating – didn’t pay off. Continue reading →

(November 26, 2003) While governments have diddled for decades in the energy marketplace, subsidizing a 500-megawatt nuclear plant here, a 5,000-kilometre Arctic pipeline there, the big energy gains have come via pint-sized innovations in conservation and energy-efficiency. This decade, the biggest little gainers on the planet are LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, those gizmos that first entered the public consciousness in the 1970s through calculators and digital watches. Continue reading →

(October 10, 2003) Wise souls will readily advise us, “Be careful what you wish for … because you might just get it.” At a deep, perhaps subconscious level, Dalton McGuinty and his Liberal followers must be wondering what they have gotten themselves into through their recent ascension to power in Ontario. Their dreams have come true. Now all they have to do is keep those dreams from turning into a nightmare. Continue reading →