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Category Archives: Energy
Less government, less greenhouse gas
(October 24, 2002) Contrary to the naysayers who claim Western countries would face economic ruin in meeting Kyoto’s greenhouse gas targets, three winning models are proven to exist and proven to yield spectacular results. The first model – the USSR approach – involves privatizing an entire economy. Russia became the world’s greatest greenhouse gas reducer by abandoning its centrally planned economy. Continue reading
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Corn-based fuel
(October 9, 2002) Letters re: The Corn Isn’t Green, Lawrence Solomon, Sept. 25. Continue reading
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The corn isn’t green
(September 25, 2002) Alberta is an environmental pariah for its tar sands, which are just about the world’s worst emitters of greenhouse gases, but Alberta’s neighbours to the east – Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario – avidly promote a competing fuel with proportionately much greater emissions. The federal government also has been promoting this souped-up greenhouse gas generator, ironically touting it as a Future Fuel that can help meet the country’s Kyoto targets. But this competitor can only make matters worse. Continue reading
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Power to the people
(September 18, 2002) Rooftop power plants are sprouting in California, a state that has suffered from volatile power costs and electricity shortages, and before the end of the year, they’ll be sprouting in New York and New Jersey. By the end of next year, they may have come to electricity-challenged Ontario, where another botched deregulation is leading to wildly fluctuating prices, brownouts and threats of California-style rolling blackouts. Continue reading
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Letters
(September 10, 2002) Lawrence Solomon’s “How Meeting Kyoto Goals Can Save Canada Money” (Sept. 4), was a fabulous article. All those scenarios are possible. I am a follower of history. I can say with absolute certainty that we will not pass Kyoto in its present form. The best we will do is pass a token. Politics never has and never will save anything do with the good of the planet or its people. Even the not-so-bright know that our leaders are the elected of the various power and financial blocs; that is what party politics is all about. Continue reading
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