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350 or bust: Next Election, Vote For Penelope

More links: Penelope4Ontario . . . → Read More: 350 or bust: Next Election, Vote For Penelope

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Impolitical: Another flawed attack on green energy in Ontario

This John Ivison column from yesterday is the latest from a Canadian pundit to attack the Ontario government's green energy efforts: "McGuinty's green bubble ready to pop." It, like the Wente column...

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Impolitical: The fun with green energy columns continues

So John Ivison had another column today criticizing the Ontario Liberal government's green energy plan: here. The column focuses on a solar energy company that Dalton McGuinty visited this week,...

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Impolitical: A fair take on the green energy issue in the Ontario election

Hey! A reasonable newspaper column on green energy I can get behind! For the first time this campaign: " Energy flashpoints and the politics of power." The right wing insists we can’t afford to...

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350 or bust: Future Schmucher

This shocking attack ad on 8 year old Penelope was released yesterday, as the Ontario election debate continues. More links: Penelope4Ontario.ca   . . . → Read More: 350 or bust: Future Schmucher

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Impolitical: Green energy and the last week of the campaign

As we get closer to the election, the uncertainty that is being caused by Tim Hudak's opposition to both Ontario's Green Energy Act and the Samsung deal that brings renewable energy investment to the...

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Impolitical: Mercer and Holmes install solar panels

They hit a rooftop in Oshawa where it appears a bunch of the neighbourhood homes have solar panels as well. A solar installer is on hand to explain this particular arrangement, where the homeowner...

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350 or bust: Mercer And Holmes On Solar Panels

Just in time for the Ontario election, where Tory leader Tim Hudak is promising to kill the innovative Green Energy Act if elected, here’s Rick Mercer and Mike Holmes, two Canadian icons,in a great...

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Impolitical: The secret anti-green energy online campaign of the Power...

What the Power Workers' Union has been up to during the Ontario election campaign to undermine the Liberal government's green energy policies: "Ontario marketing campaign seeded Internet with...

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350 or bust: Mike Holmes On Ontario’s Green Energy Act: A Brave New Path

A great article by Mike “Make It Right” Holmes, host of the television series Holmes on Homes & Holmes Inspection, on The David Suzuki Foundation’s blog today: Over the past few weeks, Ontario...

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Impolitical: Green energy costs in the news again

I don't have much time at the moment to pursue the study referenced here re Ontario's electricity costs as related to the province's green energy emphasis: "Cost of green energy 40 per cent higher than...

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the reeves report: Ontario’s Auditor General slams McGuinty for ‘hasty’ green...

Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter. Ontario’s Auditor General, Jim McCarter, released his Annual Report to the legislature earlier this morning, and the 460-page document has some troubling findings...

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Impolitical: Despite feds, Canada 7th in creating green-tech firms

A surprise given the Harper government’s not so green credentials: Canada ranks high because of an entrepreneurial culture, relatively high patent activity and existing corporate activity in the...

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Impolitical: Tim Hudak goes to Belleville

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...

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Impolitical: Dear Health Canada

News yesterday that Health Canada has decided to do some research: “Health Canada to probe possible health effects of wind turbines.” This study is going to be very carefully watched. Early indications...

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Impolitical: Dear Health Canada – part II

From a long time friend of the blog who has written to Health Canada in the wake of news of their study on wind turbines, this letter below. He advises he has “absolutely no financial or corporate...

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BigCityLib Strikes Back: How Much Will It Cost Tim Hudak To Unwind The Green...

You thought cancelling that gas plant was expensive?  Here’s PCPO MPP Monte McNaughton, representing Lambton-Kent-Middlesex: …we realize that when we make the commitment, we’re not going to build them,...

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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs That Tim Hudak Would Kill

Green Ones, too: Niagara Region Wind Corporation is on a recruitment drive as it gears up for one of the largest wind turbine projects in Canada. It estimates it and its suppliers will require about...

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BigCityLib Strikes Back: OLP Candidates On Wind Tubines

Didn’t like this bit:Kathleen Wynne is uneasy about the quality of information fuelling the renewable energy debate. “Where is the evidence and science in making these decisions?” asks Wynne. “I’m not...

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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Pupatello And Wynne Support Offshore Wind

Offshore wind should be a slam-dunk.  After all its offshore, wayout of sight of any protesting NIMBYs.  So it is good to know that the two front runners in the OLP leadership race have come out in...

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