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Lawrence Solomon: Smart is dumb
Power companies around the world are planning to spend trillions of dollars building smart grids – next-generation marvels likened to the transcontinental railroad and the Internet because they are...
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Mafia ‘Hits’ EU Wind Subsidies
Energy Tribune Posted on Sep. 17, 2010 By Peter C Glover With Europe?s public subsidy regime for wind and other green energy projects being slashed, all it needed was for the Mafia to blow into town....
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The low hanging fruit for real cost savings
As an example, Country Guardian calculates that for the U.K. government subsidy towards the construction of one wind turbine, they could insulate the roofs of almost 500 houses that need it and save in...
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Europe’s Green Subsidies
by ERIC REGULY , Globe and Mail The Spanish and Germans are doing it. So are the French. The British might have to do it. Austerity-whacked Europe is rolling back subsidies for renewable energy as...
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Blowing Money in the Wind
BY JERRY AGAR,TORONTO SUN – AUGUST 8, 2011 Wind power is green, right? It helps keep the air clean, doesn’t it? Not according to the people suing the state of Colorado over wind power. The American...
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The EU dream has turned into a nightmare
It was hard to know – as the danse macabre of the euro spirals towards its devastating denouement – which of last week’s utterances and events was the maddest. Read more…
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Wind wastes water – and your dollars
Parker Gallant And Scott Luft, Financial Post · Mar. 16, 2012 Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is the province’s premier electricity power generating firm, a government-owned utility whose future has...
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Fraser Institute: Report shows green energy blows
Thursday, April 11, 2013 By Christina Blizzard TORONTO – Wind blows — and so sadly does the Liberal government’s Green Energy Act. Even before the Fraser Institute came out with...
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Thinktank blasts wind power support
The Guardian, Monday 12 December 2011 Renewables policy overambitious and unrealistic, argues Adam Smith Institute Britain is heading for an energy crisis by the middle of the decade due to the...
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Millions for wind farms to switch off
The Times December 27 2013 Sonia Elks Wind farm operators have been paid a record £30 million to switch off this year. The National Grid’s huge bill for wind farmers to leave turbines idle has shot up...
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