Recently, in The Windsor Star, there was a statement that $1 trillion have been spent on the Iraq war over the last seven years. One trillion dollars are one million times $1 million. At an average cost of $8,000 for a solar thermal water heating system, this amount could have paid for 125
Earlier this week, Energy Minister Brad Duguid told us what he thinks we need to know about the province’s soaring electricity bills. In a Citizen interview, Duguid told a simple story. When the Liberals came to power, our electrical system was “weak, unreliable and dirty.” Now, the system is
In several recent articles, Parker Gallant has criticized the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association, accusing this small, non-profit organization of having undue influence over Ontario’s energy policy. He claims “taxpayers are involuntarily funding OSEA to lobby the government to take actions
They’re in a fight that could shape wind power in Ontario,
billions of dollars of investment and the green reputation of Dalton
McGuinty’s Liberals. Two UWO academics are clashing over wind farms, each accusing the
other’s followers of demonizing their cause and bastardizing
science. A champion
Robert Bennett’s company plans to make solar building materials, and he figures a new manufacturing plant in McKeesport could be an ideal place to show them off. United States Green Energy Corp. hopes to locate in a former rail roundhouse, said Bennett, one of five partners in the company based in
With developing countries looking for a sign that the developed world is committed to low-carbon energy, it is left to Europe to lead the way towards averting devastating climate change The global effort to reach a legally binding agreement on tackling climate change has stalled. There is little
Nothing could horrify the climate-conscious citizen more than India’s Integrated Energy Policy, which mandates, at minimum, a three- to fourfold increase in primary energy consumption, and a five- to sevenfold rise in electricity consumption from 2005 to 2031 to maintain an 8 per cent GDP growth.
As we use up the world’s natural resources, we have no choice but to embrace alternative ways to power cars Fuelling of transport is dominated by fossil fuels. However, over the next few decades, there are a number of alternatives, which will first challenge this dominance, and then displace it.
Cheap products manufactured in the developing world will be crucial to establishing lower carbon economies in developed countries The global business community is the crucial link that will enable the world to get to grips with the energy challenge of the coming decades. Governments will set the
Meeting energy generation and carbon emission targets for the future will require new plants and, eventually, interconnection to a European super grid Energy policy in the UK is at a crossroads, and the decisions made now will reverberate for decades. At least 43 gigawatts of new electrical
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