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Low carbon water management in Toronto: as reliable as nuclear electricity
The R.C. Harris water treatment plant in the east Beaches is one of four plants that supply the city of Toronto with clean water. The four plants are capable of moving nearly a million tons of water...
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Efficiency and symbolism in Canadian health care and medicine exports
In three and a half years, the operating license of the National Research Universal (NRU) nuclear reactor at Chalk River will expire. The NRU is a hugely important piece of research equipment, arguably...
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Carbon trading in China: post-modern environmentalism meets classical Marxism
The European Emission Trading System (ETS) is an utterly ineffective attempt to prompt a “market” response to rising carbon emissions. It is ineffective because it has not prompted the allegedly...
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What runs Toronto? An instructive snapshot from the last few days
Toronto runs on electricity: to be precise, close to 25 billion kilowatt-hours of it every year. Throughout the entire life of every single man, woman, and child in Toronto, the experience has been:...
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Solar power in Ontario: introducing an innovative micro-solution that...
Readers of this blog probably think I am totally against solar power. I know, in my April 30 post about Ottawa’s Solar Soirée, I lampooned the pseudo-green thinking that produced Ontario’s Green Energy...
View ArticleThe G-8 summit climate: “nothing is being done”
The G8 2013 leaders summit just got started in Ireland. Will climate change be on the summit agenda? If you go by what the United Kingdom, the G-8 president this year, is saying, then no. UK PM David...
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The political price of “green” energy in Ontario: why nuclear is the cheapest...
The former Ontario premier prorogued the Ontario legislature on Monday October 15 2012, 246 days ago. In those 246 days, up to one p.m. this afternoon (June 18 2013), Ontario gas plants dumped...
View ArticleSmart choices in Ontario electricity: it’s all about what is proven and clean
Today’s Toronto Star has a story by John Spears featuring the natural gas lobby’s take on how the Ontario Long Term Energy Plan should be revised. Spears writes this: “Without being explicit, [Enbridge...
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“Extreme” heat and reliable electricity: the second rescues Ontario from the...
Humans operate inside a very narrow range of temperatures: from about minus forty to plus forty Celsius. That assumes we have clothes and some source of artificial heat or cooling. Without clothes or...
View ArticleLow-carbon, low-hanging: nuclear power the fruit of Ontario and Canadian...
My environmental awakening occurred sometime in my early childhood when I became aware of a crushing, aching love for the natural world. On family camping trips I just sopped up the experiences like a...
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Nuclear waste versus time/money waste: which is worse? An international...
An interesting exchange of diplomatic letters between the U.S. State of Michigan and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission on the matter of the proposed underground nuclear waste repository on the...
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Nuclear powered Iceland points way to carbon-free Canadian North
I have talked before about using isotope heat in various practical applications, including freeze protection in northern Canadian communities. In a CBC radio interview on this, I mentioned to the...
View ArticleNuclear shows up for Ontario electricity fight: Power Workers versus the Gas...
The Power Workers’ Union (CUPE Local 1000) placed a print ad in at least one Ontario vehicle recently that was a sight for sore eyes and music to my ears. Responding to a new offensive by the natural...
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“No Mas”: wind quits Ontario electricity fight, in the middle of a heat-wave...
The table below is a snapshot of yesterday’s Ontario wind turbine electricity production. Notice what happens to wind production as the province heads into its morning and afternoon peak periods, and...
View ArticleHeavy water versus light water in Ontario nuclear war: CANDU denouement
A few years ago I told Steve Paikin in a TV interview that when it comes down to a choice of nuclear reactors for Ontario, I tend to cheer the same way I do in international hockey tournaments: for the...
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Nuclear energy is the most powerful weapon in the war on carbon dioxide
Look at Tables 1 and 2 in the left-hand sidebar of this blog and you will see the mix of generation sources that are powering the Ontario electricity grid right now. The sources, grouped by the fuel...
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Land use the paramount factor in Ontario LTEP review: when NIMBY is the right...
The opponents of the Oakville and Mississauga gas plants have been roundly derided in the media as selfish NIMBYs concerned only about protecting their privileged enclaves at everyone else’s expense....
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Ontario electricity in the heat wave: who really pays the rent?
Yesterday was one of the hottest days of the year in the great province of Ontario. It was particularly hot in cities. Toronto baked, Ottawa sweltered, Kingston poached, London sizzled. Elsewhere...
View ArticleCanadian federal climate change dilemma: an easy solution
Since beginning this blog, I have urged the federal Conservative government to claim credit for the Ontario Achievement in carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reductions. Ontario’s electricity generating...
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NRDC feigns outrage over 1.2 billion tons of carbon from oil sands in Canada;...
The Natural Resources Defense Council, one of America’s leading “environmental” groups, issued a much-retailed press release yesterday that claims operations in Canada’s oil sands will emit 1.2 billion...
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