Energy Probe

A March 6 meeting, outlining the downside of wind turbines, drew close to 200 people to Creemore's Station on the Green.

Only six or eight people would have shown up 18 months ago, said one speaker, concluding that the groundswell of opposition to wind turbines is gaining momentum.

That's why I think "climategate" was such a happy event for the global warming deniers.

The term for the hacked emails from some of the world's top climate change scientists, it supposedly showed that these UN researchers were politically driven, worried about how their research would play out on the public stage. They were not dispassionate scientists, their critics said. They were simply advocates.

Wind power is unreliable, expensive and doesn’t result in lower C02 emmissions. Why is Ontario still rushing ahead with it?

Ontario's strategy of picking winners likely to fail

Ontario’s provincial auditor or other independent groups should periodically audit the programs and subsidies being offered through the recently passed Green Energy Act to ensure the programs are producing the promised environmental and economic benefits, says an Energy Probe report published today by Michael Trebilcock, Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Toronto, and James Wilson, a recent University of Toronto Law School Graduate.

The full report by Michael J. Trebilcock and James S.F. Wilson.

With more than a trillion dollars a year going towards green technology, companies, cities, countries, even whole continents are proving Kermit wrong. It’s easy to be green.

Environmentalism is the religion of the left, but many on the right blindly follow a misguided dogma of their own: nuclear power.

Beneath the climate change hysteria are voices urging careful examination of the arguments behind the rush to so-called green energy. Laurie Goldstein is one of these voices. Lawrence Solomon is another. Their columns are attacked by writers of letters to the editor who ignore their messages and spout the original alarms, even after the scientists have been caught cooking the books.

Who am I? Whenever I wonder, I check in on Wikipedia, to get the latest surmise. At different times I’ve been described as a writer, blogger, coffee-shop owner, global warming denier, astroturfer and entrepreneur. One description I haven’t usually found on Wikipedia, at least not over the last 18 months — is of me as an environmentalist, the only occupation I’ve continually engaged in over the last 30 years.

Energy Probe’s Norm Rubin on “The Agenda” discussing the recent Samsung deal and Ontario’s renewable energy future.