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.
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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. Read more...(400 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)
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. Read more...(618 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)
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. Read more...(694 words, estimated 2:47 mins reading time)