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Category Archives: Renewable Energy
What does the science say about CAPE’s – Fossil Fuel Ads Make Us Sick campaign?
Regular readers of this blog know of my ongoing disappointment with the MDs at the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). No group has so consistently disappointed me with the variance between the reports they are capable of … Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuel Free Future, Risk Communication, Uncategorized
Tagged air-pollution, Climate Change, environment, health, news
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Revisiting activist myths about the Trans Mountain Pipeline – or Why Climate leaders may sometimes need to build pipelines
Activists are trying to get the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project (TMX) back in the news. On my social media feed I first saw Dr. Tim Takaro hanging in a tree then watched him as he was replaced by YouTuber … Continue reading
Alberta’s Renewable Energy Conundrum in Charts and Numbers – Why Capacity Factors Matter
Over the holidays I have read a lot of commentary on Alberta’s energy future. I keep seeing individuals demanding that Alberta concentrate on wind and solar for its energy future. The people making these statements are mostly activists and journalists, … Continue reading
The Green Party’s “Mission Possible” a cool name for a policy proposal that is not ready for prime time.
On May 16th Elizabeth May unveiled the Green Party’s Mission Possible, their 20-step “Green Climate Action Plan“. While I have to admit “Mission Possible” is a very cool name, the plan repeats what we saw with their Canadian “Green New … Continue reading
More bad epidemiology about BC LNG from the MDs at CAPE
I have written a lot about the BC liquid natural gas (LNG) export industry. I have done so because my examination of the climate math says BC LNG will help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and will help in the … Continue reading
Posted in Renewable Energy, Uncategorized
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On the “shocking” revelations in the BC Hydro IPP review and the reality that the fight against climate change is not going to be cheap
This week A Review of BC Hydro’s Purchase of Power from Independent Power Producers came out and to no one’s surprise it revealed that BC Hydro is paying too much for all that intermittent, low-carbon power purchased under the 2007 … Continue reading
Environmental Absolutists are going BANANAs and it will hurt, not help, the environment
Anyone who follows the energy beat knows that the latest chant from the environmental absolutist world is “No new fossil fuel infrastructure” (NNFFI). The slogan has been attributed by most sources to Bill McKibben of 350.org. Around here you hear … Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuel Free Future, Pipelines, Risk, Uncategorized
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About that questionable IMF survey claiming $5.3 trillion in “subsidies” for fossil fuels
During the break I thought it would be nice to catch up on some blogging. The first topic I want to cover is that questionable International Monetary Fund (IMF) “subsidy” survey we constantly see quoted by anti-pipeline and climate change … Continue reading
Let’s face it hypocrisy matters in the pipeline and climate change debates
As someone deeply interested in the pipeline and climate change debates I encounter the topic of hypocrisy every day. The discussion usually starts with a pipeline supporter pointing out that pipeline opponents who rely on fossil fuels are hypocrites. The … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Climate Change Politics, Pipelines, Renewable Energy, Uncategorized
Tagged Climate Change, hypocrisy, pipelines
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Revisiting 100% Wind, Water and Sunlight for Canada – an ill-advised approach to fight climate change
Dr. Marc Z. Jacobson, the lead scientist of the 100% Wind, Water and Sunlight (100% WWS) movement, was in Vancouver last week for a presentation. Dr. Jacobson is a proponent of relying solely on wind, water and sunlight to meet … Continue reading
A Chemist in Langley 