Who benefits most from government ‘green’ policies? Usually it is the companies that produce renewable energy, not citizens or the environment. For example, 602 birds and 1,270 bats were killed by wind turbines at a single Ontario wind farm between July and December of 2009.
Aggressive carbon pricing schemes that depend upon routing taxpayer dollars to ‘green’ projects are making energy and other goods more expensive for Canada’s poorest. Canadians in provinces where these policies have been implemented are having to choose between heating their homes and buying groceries to feed their families. Some are walking away from their homes because they can no longer afford to power and heat them. This is the ‘heat or eat’ conundrum.
Title: Generating Electricity in Canada from Wind and Sunlight Is Getting Less for More Better than Getting More for Less? Author: Pierre Desrochers, Andrew Reed Publisher: Frasier Institute Date: July 30th, 2019 Full Report Here Summary: Proponents of VRE often use a narrow framework that fails to consider its indirect consequences. Electricity
Title: Blowing Hot Air on the Wrong Target? A Critique of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement in Higher Education Author: Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu Publisher: Frontier Centre for Public Policy Date: July 2016 Full Text Article Summary: By 2015, students and faculty at more than 1,000 college and university campuses across the world
Title: Adverse health effects of industrial wind turbines Author: Roy D. Jeffery MD FCFP Carmen Krogh Brett Horner CMA Publisher: Canadian Family Physician Date: May 2013 Full Article Here Summary:Canadian family physiciann can expect to see increasing numbers of rural patients reportingadverse effects from exposure to industrial wind turbines (IWTs).
Title: Canada’s Carbon Leak Problem Author: Michael Binnion Publisher: Options Politiques Date: February 1, 2017 Full Text Article Summary: Agriculture, chemicals, refined products, oil and gas, and base metals are most likely to lose large international market share, which implies high rates of carbon leaks. His study estimates an annual loss of 2.81% of
Title: The Hidden Costs of Wind Electricity: Why the full cost of wind generation is unlikely to match the cost of natural gas, coal or nuclear generation Author: George Taylor, Ph.D., Thomas Tanton Publisher: American Tradition Institute: Center for Energy Studies Date: December 2012 Full Report Here Summary: In the
Title: Making Technological Miracles Author: Mark P. Mills Publication: The New Atlantis Date: Spring 2017 . Full Text Article Summary: Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and physicist Mark P. Mills addresses calls for a technological “miracle” in energy production. Mills argues that innovations in energy production are fundamentally constrained by the laws of physics. While the
Title: Corporate welfare cash: 21st century justifications and billion-dollar bills to come Author: Dr. Mark Milke Publisher: Canadian Taxpayers Federation Date: April 2017 Full Text Article Summary: This study looked at corporate welfare to energy companies and found that governments are racking up huge bills as traditional corporate welfare is shifting towards an increasing number of
Title: Strategic Energy Management for Businesses in Quebec Author: Johanne Whitmore and Pierre-Olivier Pineau (Executive Summary) Publisher: Conference Board of Canada Date: October 2015 Full Text Article Summary: In 2012, 67 per cent of the energy consumed in Quebec was consumed by industrial, commercial, and institutional users. How businesses and organization managed their energy consumption,
Title: THE “NEW ENERGY ECONOMY”: AN EXERCISE IN MAGICAL THINKING Author: Mark P. Mills Publication: Manhattan Institute Date: March 2019 Full Text Article Summary: This paper highlights the physics of energy to illustrate why there is no possibility that the world is undergoing—or can undergo—a near-term transition to a “new energy economy.
