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Point Barrow Provincial Park, on a cold and windy fall afternoon … By James Saunders
Protecting bats from offshore wind farms – By Colin Schultz
Her favorite species — By Julliane Hazlewood
Radar Love –By Carrie Simmons
Wind turbines are built as environmentally friendly alternative energy sources — By Andrea Damiano
One woman’s fight to help save the creatures of the night — By Anna Delaney (pdf)
The Ontario provincial government today announced details of the Green Energy Act which boosts wind, solar and biogas production in the province.
“Ontario has taken the lead in Canada and set the ground rules for doing green business,” said Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. “Now investors, renewable energy companies and skilled workers can really move our green economy forward.”
Wind, solar and biogas plants will all qualify for direct payments through a system that is typical in Europe but relatively new to North America.
“Ontario wants green energy business,” said George Smitherman, Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy and Infrastructure. “These regulations will help ensure industry and municipalities that jobs will be created, investment is committed and that the renewable energy industry grows across the province.”
Ministry officials were somewhat vague on actual numbers, but one official provided some proposed / initial prices for the Feed-in-Tariff earlier this week:
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Physician – activist Helen Caldicott spoke on the acute and chronic dangers of nuclear power and nuclear war on a tour of Ontario this October.
Story by Daniela Distefano (audio)
As the subject of the 1982 National Film Board of Canada’s Oscar winning documentary “If You Love This Planet,” Dr. Helen Caldicott inspired a generation to work toward nuclear disarmament. Dr. Caldicott continues her mission with her most recent books “Nuclear Power is Not the Answer” and “War in Heaven.”
The tour was sponsored by Caldicott’s own group, Physicians for Global Survival.
Sponsors at the Unversity of Western Ontario included: the Faculty of Information and Media Studies; the Environmental Studies Program; the McConnell Family Foundation; and the Global and Ecosystem Health Interest Group at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry.
If the crush of media around George Smiterton at Monday’s Canadian Wind Energy Association meeting in Toronto is any indication, Ontario’s Green Energy Act has important implications far beyond the province.
It is the first time that a European approach to renewable energy subsidies — called a “feed-in-tariff” — has been tried in North America.