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By Mark Brooks, on June 21, 2012, at 3:45 pm
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On Earthgauge Radio this week, I have a special program on the coming solar power revolution.
Have you ever thought about installing solar panels on your roof or, if you don’t have a roof, what about investing in solar energy? Well if the answer is yes to either of those questions or if you are just interested in learning more about solar power and its potential as a viable energy source of the future, you’re going to want to listen to the podcast today.
I have four interviews on the show today:
Janice Ashworth of Ecology . . . → Read More: earthgauge: Earthgauge Radio June 21, 2012: Solar power to the people!
By Nancy Leblanc, on May 11, 2012, at 6:00 am And here’s a headline he garnered as a result of a town hall he held on Thursday: “Hudak’s plans to kill FIT panned.” He promised to do away with the feed-in-tariff program and called it a “scam,” in fact. A scam. Hudak’s position on green energy and doing away with the FIT is not news, but the mayor’s reaction is: Belleville currently has a handful of solar projects including one at the Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre.
That solar farm — located on the Cannifton Road sports centre — is expected to generate $7 million in revenue over 20
. . . → Read More: Impolitical: Tim Hudak goes to Belleville
By awreeves, on January 20, 2012, at 9:45 am German Solar Park.
For most of the past winter, Germany’s 1.1 million solar power systems that crisscross the country have sat relatively idle. Overcast skies and a relative lack of sunshine has meant the powerful solar-generating system has produced little energy, forcing Germany to import electricity from nuclear power plants in neighbouring France and the Czech Republic.
Public discontent at the high cost of electricity and increasingly shaky support from the coalition government headed by Chancellor Angela Merkel are threatening to undermine German advances in solar-power generation. Merkel has long touted the sector’s “opportunities for exports, development, technology and
. . . → Read More: the reeves report: Saving Solar Power in Germany
By bazie, on August 26, 2011, at 3:34 pm In Part I, I sketched an overview of the consequences of various green energy proposals. Because it is election season in Ontario, let me note the following party observations with respect to these various green energy proposals. Firstly, Conservative… . . . → Read More: Progressive Proselytizing: Green Energy Proposals Part II: Party Positions
By bazie, on August 26, 2011, at 3:23 pm With a variety of different green energy proposals floating around, it is worth recalling what the various schemes are and what their advantages and disadvantages are. In Part I, I look at an overview of the particular at the systems being implemented … . . . → Read More: Progressive Proselytizing: Green Energy Proposals Part I: An Overview
By Patrick Black, on August 4, 2011, at 12:28 pm With the Liberals trailing behind their Fall election opponents, Ontario’s governing party is taking steps to make their controversial FIT program and Samsung business deal more palatable. Yesterday, Energy Minister Brad Duguid announced that he chan… . . . → Read More: Enviralment: Ontario Green Energy Deal Cheaper But Delayed
By Robert MacReady, on July 22, 2011, at 4:41 pm Texas-based Mesa Power Group is in the process of filing a formal complaint with the government of Canada, alleging that elements of Ontario’s Green Energy Act are in violation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The renewable energy fi… . . . → Read More: Enviralment: American Renewable Energy Firm says Green Energy Act Violating NAFTA
By John Laforet, on May 14, 2011, at 4:27 am Surprised to see coal and racism have anything to do with each other? Welcome to Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario. Disagree with him and you’re a coal loving, puppy kicking, candy stealing from a child, racist. You probably want to close hospitals and schools too. The wind industry and it’s political supporters (and donation recipients) at the [...] . . . → Read More: John Laforet – President – Wind Concerns Ontario: Coal and Racism as Political Weapons in Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario
By John Laforet, on May 13, 2011, at 4:28 am I would be lying if I said I was surprised the Ontario Liberals and their paid for lackeys at the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association and Environmental Defense had conniption fits and went to the Twitter-verse to vent their spleens about how awful/ignorant/evil/cruel anyone who would dare get in the way of their access to our [...] . . . → Read More: John Laforet – President – Wind Concerns Ontario: Wind Welfare Warriors Just Don’t Get It (But Thank God They’re Losing)
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