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Financial Post – October 13, 2010
Ontario power lesson: Notes for a speech that Ontario’s Opposition leader could give, but won’t, on the state of the province’s electricity sector
By Lawrence Solomon

Ontario Conservative Leader Tim Hudak is a keynote speaker tomorrow at the Ontario Energy Association. Here is the speech he should, but won’t, give.

McGuinty’s enviro-fascism terrorizes Ontario rate payers

Financial Post – Sept. 18, 2010
Are you frying your eggs at 4 a.m. yet?
By Lawrence Solomon

… No, Mr. McGuinty is in this to transform the province’s power system to make it coal free and reliant on nuclear and wind power. Money is no obstacle to him but Ontario citizens and businesses are, because they don’t behave as he’d like them to – and as his technologies of choice need them to behave.

See Conservative government press release on wind energy funding below.

August 17, 2010
AP Enterprise: Old-style coal plants expanding
By Matthew Brown, Associated Press Writer

WYODAK, Wyo. – Utilities across the country are building dozens of old-style coal plants that will cement the industry’s standing as the largest industrial source of climate-changing gases for years to come.

Exceptional article: A Free Market Energy Vision

Read the complete article here.

July 16, 2010
A Free Market Energy Vision
By Robert Bradley Jr.

Energy is the master resource. Without it, other resources could neither be produced nor consumed. Even energy requires energy: There would not be usable oil, gas, or coal without the energy to manufacture and power the requisite tools and machinery. Nor would there be wind turbines or solar panels, which are monuments to embedded fossil-fuel energy.

Obama promises to “skyrocket” electricity prices

“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electiricy rates would necessarily skyrocket.” – U.S. President Barak Obama

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