Clean Air Alliance This updated factsheet summarizes the Ontario Power Authority’s spending on new supply sources compared to its spending on efficiency and conservation methods. OPA has entered contracts for 18,137 megawatts (MW) of electricity supply yet its conservation and […]
Clean Air Alliance OPG is seeking permission from the Ontario Energy Board to raise its rates commencing March 2011 to start paying for the Darlington Re-Build project. According to OPG, its proposal to extend the operating life of Darlington by […]
United Nations Environment Programme The last two years have seen the idea of a “green economy” float out of its specialist moorings in environmental economics and into the mainstream of policy discourse. It is found increasingly in the words of […]
WWF-Canada and the Pembina Institute Renewable is Doable confirms that smart, targeted investments in a diverse array of energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions over the next twenty years will achieve major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, accelerate the closure […]
Pembina Institute This Renewable is Doable report outlines how Ontario could save money by replacing the retiring Pickering nuclear station with green energy options such as wind power, solar and biogas. Last summer, Ontario suspended its purchase of two new […]
Cherise Burda ans Roger Peters – The Pembina Institute http://www.pembina.org/pub/1530 The purpose of this solutions paper is to describe how Ontario’s base load power can be met through the deployment of renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) technologies as […]
By Cherise Burda and Roger Peters – The Pembina Institute. This proposal examines the role of clean alternative energies in Ontario’s energy mix. Particular attention is given to Ontario’s aging nuclear fleet and the benefits of choosing clean energy technologies […]
Government of Ontario Ontario’s updated Long-Term Energy Plan, Achieving Balance, reflects input from thousands of Ontarians. The plan encourages conservation and provides the clean, reliable and affordable energy Ontario will need now and into the future. It balances five principles […]
David Suzuki Foundation, June 1st, 2011 By Dale Marshall, Climate Change Policy Analyst Politics is an interesting game. Every politician will say that they entered politics as a public service, to try to do something good for the people, to […]
Environmental Defence Only a year old, the Green Energy & Green Economy Act has tapped into Ontarians’ long history of energy resourcefulness. In a province whose prosperity was first powered by Niagara Falls, and its great lakes and rivers, today’s […]
