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Showing posts with label energy policy confusion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label energy policy confusion. Show all posts
16 November 2010

Hydro: different province, same political problem, same political solution

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The province is different  - Ontario, this time – but the raw politics underneath a pledge to cut electricity rates for all homeowners is p...
15 November 2010

The politics of energy subsidies

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From the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies comes a timely rejoinder to the policy in Prince Edward Island of subsidising energy prices ...
09 September 2010

Time to retire the old schtick

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On a certain level, you can’t blame Danny Williams for saying the same stuff over and over. After all, audiences like today’s gathering at...
29 August 2010

Statoil explores renewables

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Norwegian energy company Statoil is expanding its interest in renewable energy. The company plans to develop the world’s first floating of...
12 August 2010

The Old Man, Old Habits and Old Chestnuts

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labradore lays bare the foolishness that is the Old Man’s latest anti-Quebec tirade . Score one for His Premierness’s crack research a...
11 August 2010

A summer like no other: torquing in Technicolor on the cheap

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One of the great things about summer for perpetual campaigning is that cabinet ministers can spit out sheer nonsense and reporters for the l...
09 August 2010

NALCOR: the power of constipation

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Supposedly all we need is to know that the provincial government’s energy corporation, d.b.a. NALCOR, is “ aligned” and will take all the t...
23 February 2010

A plan versus not-a-plan

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Rhode Island just unveiled its green energy plan . You can tell it is a plan because there are clearly defined targets with measureable go...
22 January 2010

Samsung signs energy deal with Ontario

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Under a deal announced Thursday, Samsung Group of South Korea will develop 2500 megawatts of wind and solar energy in Ontario at a cost of ...
13 December 2009

Energy audio and video roundup

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1.  From CBC New Brunswick , a panel discussion involving the leader of the New Brunswick Conservative, Green and New Democratic parties and...
02 December 2009

Converting principles to cash: more stuff they don’t want you to know, let alone think about

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Natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdale on the potential that more oil in White Rose would be a good thing for the province’s energy co...
23 November 2009

Five years of secret talks on Lower Churchill: the Dunderdale Audio

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In early September, natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdale revealed that the provincial government tried unsuccessfully for five years ...
17 November 2009

Danny Williams and the Philosopher’s Stone: Control and Resources

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“Securing equity means having greater leverage to control our own destiny.” “The principle of making our own way and taking cont...
10 November 2009

So where’s NALCOR?

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The 17th annual bilateral (U.S.-Canada) conference on energy issues is taking place in Boston this Thursday and Friday. The conference the...
02 November 2009

An energy warehouse

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How can it be that Prince Edward Island is getting 15% of its energy needs met by wind power but all Newfoundland and Labrador has are two ...
01 November 2009

Scoping out the wind energy deficit

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The current issue of The Scope includes a front page feature on wind energy in the province or – to put it more accurately - the lack of an...
29 July 2009

When small could mean big

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As renewNewEngland.com reports, the Maine state legislature recently passed an initiative designed to encourage small, locally-owned green ...
18 June 2009

Lack of royalty regime hampers further oil development

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Not surprisingly, some people attending the NOIA conference in St. John’s are wondering what is next on the horizon. As CBC reports , ther...
24 February 2009

NALCO: the power of confusion

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A sample of the conflicting policy statements on the Lower Churchill, Holyrood diesel generating plant and the rationale for slinging hydro ...