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#BlackOutSpeakOut Ottawa Teach-in May 30th
Dear Friends,
It has been a busy few weeks here in Ottawa and across the country. People everywhere are talking about devastating changes to environmental law and regulation (Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and Fisheries Act) undemocratically crammed into the federal budget.... Read more »
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Apple Data Center to be run on renewable energy
Submitted by Shaima Al-Khalili on Tue, 2012-05-22 11:54Article from Treehugger.com:
Apple announces the use of renewable energy at its new North Carolina Data Center and that it will be coal-power free by the end of the year:
Apple Powering NC Data Center with 100% Renewable Energy, Doubling Size of Solar Array
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Vermont Bans Fracking
Submitted by Shaima Al-Khalili on Tue, 2012-05-22 11:45Article from Treehugger.com:
http://www.treehugger.com/energy-policy/vermont-bans-fracking-can-live-w...
Vermont Bans Fracking: We Can Live Without Oil & Natural Gas, But Cannot Without Clean Water
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Wind Energy is Reliable
Dear Editor:
Adam Randell’s article “Blowing in the wind,” The Packet, May 3, 2012 offers some insight into how green sustainable energy production could look in the future. Todd Shirran’s initiative to build and operate a wind turbine deserves praise as a true, local initiative, green project.
Similarly efforts by the town of Bonavista to renew efforts to establish a wind farm on Burnt Ridge should be encouraged and promoted. What is required to make these projects financially successful is something known as Feed-in Tariff legislation. This enabling legislation, now in place in Ontario and Nova Scotia, permits governments to set rates for electricity production from renewable energy sources and requires utility operators to purchase the excess electricity at those rates which afford the producers a modest profit.
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Oh My Darling(ton)!
Submitted by Jeff Alan on Fri, 2012-05-11 14:47
By Jeff Alan
The “hey federal government, we have environmental concerns” portion of the Darlington nuclear plant discussion is over. The project has been, of course, deemed perfectly safe as long as the considerations are considered. If you would like to read all 67 Joint Review Panel recommendations and the feds' responses, put on your reading glasses and mosey on over to this website:
http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/document-eng.cfm?document=55542
Wonder if they put in any suggestions for stronger protection against confused workers filling the wrong tank again...1... Read more »
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