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<p>Allan</p>
<p>That would be hopeful if it was true. I have tw problems with
this article. I comes from a news outlet owned by the billionaire
class. 2. I followed the evidence links to International energy
agency but they are very general and the 1% increase may be
statistically insignificant given that data comes from a wide
range of undisclosed sources. We don't know if they are comparing
apples to oranges. <br>
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<p>The crisis that our species is in will only be resolved by a
cultural change of heart from domination to caring. I believe
that Bloomberg are on a path to make domination work. <br>
</p>
<p>I rank the crisis of our times in the following order. how about
you?</p>
<ol>
<li>War, nuclear war and arms proliferation</li>
<li>depletion of our global soil quality caused by mono cropping <br>
</li>
<li>the dissolution of our food supply and ecosystem with man made
chemicals.</li>
<li>Gain of function research , the creation of bio-weapons and
unleashing of GMO's into our environment</li>
<li>climate change (not with standing climate manipulation through
Chem trails. In the 60's it was common to speak of controlling
the weather . now we no longer talk about it but does it still
exist. ) definitely a problem with over consumption of oil. but
Carbon is the basis for life. <br>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Just rambling on. but in good faith</p>
<p>Art<br>
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The attached story is NOT anecdotal evidence. <br class="">
It does contain good news for people living outside
Ontario - a province where the Premier’s ideology is
hindering the adoption of measures that are proven to help
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carbon pollution is expected to rise
1% this year according to <a
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International Energy Agency analysis</a>,
driven by upticks in power generation
and air travel. While emissions
increases can trigger alarm bells,
this one may be somewhat muted by the
fact that renewables and EV adoption
prevented a much larger rise.
According to the agency, absent these
emissions-slashing solutions, the jump
could have been triple what it was.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;
line-height: 21px;" class="">And as
climate solutions start to bend the
emissions curve down, we are—according <a
href="https://cleanenergycanada.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=14af3f96b3d5df9564694d168&id=15defd883a&e=72ac9ef5c3"
style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">to
Bloomberg</a>—also on the inflection
point of an inverse curve: mass
cleantech adoption. Clean energy has
reportedly reached a “tipping point,”
with Bloomberg’s analysis likening clean
energy to other technology trends like
the Edison lightbulb. In this case,
early adoption took decades, but once
the bulbs were installed in 5% of
households, uptake increased
exponentially. </p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;
line-height: 21px;" class="">Tipping
point or not, there is no shortage of
evidence of the rapid pace of change,
increasingly fuelled by economics as
much as climate concern. Europe’s
increase in wind and solar power
capacity <a
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saved it billions of dollars</a> in
avoided natural gas imports. And <a
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EU countries</a>, including France,
Spain, and the Netherlands, have
withdrawn from the EU’s Energy Charter
Treaty that enabled oil and gas
companies to sue governments over policy
changes—including fossil fuel
phase-outs—that endangered those
companies' bottom lines. The world,
after all, has a much more important
bottom line. </p>
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<div class="">On Oct 21, 2022, at 4:52 PM, Arthur Blomme <<a
href="mailto:art@integralshift.ca"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">art@integralshift.ca</a>>
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<p class=""> I am trying to argue a nuance that seems to
be missed. I have long advocated for Hydro from
Quebec. I believe that it is folly to confirm our
beliefs about climate change with anecdotal evidence and
environmental models whose predictions have not been
verified with real world data.</p>
<p class="">Art<br class="">
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/21/22 1:36 p.m., Allan
Baker wrote:<br class="">
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after-white-space;" class="">Hi Art;
<div class="">I will not be attending our CRAIC
discussion tomorrow - we will be attending a special
exhibit at the Aga Khan Museum here in Toronto.</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">With respect to your photo of the coal
train, in Ontario the Ford government has recently
decided to increase GHG emissions by 600 per cent
through the burning of methane to generate
electricity. This is also a more expensive means of
generating electricity than using wind, solar, or
hydro purchased from Quebec. </div>
<div class="">Check the message from Environmental
Defence below.</div>
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<div class="">Stay hopeful;</div>
<div class="">Allan</div>
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<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px
30px; padding: 0px;" class="">A rushed decision
to procure new gas fired power plants, without
public consultation or transparent analysis of
the alternatives. Hundreds of millions of public
dollars wasted due to poor electricity
infrastructure planning. I’m not talking about
the gas plant cancellations of 2011 that cost
an <a
href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-liberals-gas-plant-cancellations-cost-1-billion-auditor/article14744879/"
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billion</a>. This is Ontario’s next gas plant
scandal, unfolding right now unless the province
changes course quickly.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px
30px; padding: 0px;" class="">On October 7th,
Ontario’s Minister of Energy directed the
Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)
to procure 1,500 megawatts of new natural
gas-fired electricity generation capacity. This
decision was taken without any public
consultation, based on a <a
href="https://ieso.ca/en/Sector-Participants/Resource-Acquisition-and-Contracts/Resource-Eligibility"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 70,
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class="" moz-do-not-send="true">very brief
IESO report</a> without financial analysis or
comparison of other pathways. These new gas
plants are to be built by 2027, and some given
20-year contracts to operate until at least
2047. Combined with the planned ramp-up of
existing gas plants, they will result in more
than a 300% increase in carbon emissions from
Ontario’s electricity system.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px
30px; padding: 0px;" class="">This decision
imperils Ontario and Canada’s progress against
climate targets. But it also leaves Ontario on
the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in
potential contractual penalties. The federal
government has committed to net zero electricity
across Canada by 2035, and is in the process of
drafting a regulation to achieve that goal. The
regulation will prohibit the unabated use of
natural gas for electricity generation starting
in 2035. No company will risk investing in a new
gas plant to open in 2027, knowing they will
most likely be required to shut it down in 2035.
To bring bidders to the table, the Minister has
directed the IESO to offer bidders a guarantee:
if climate regulations require the new plants to
shut down, the people of Ontario will fully
compensate them for their losses.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px
30px; padding: 0px;" class="">In other words,
this government is planning for Ontario and
Canada to fail to meet its climate commitments,
and is putting a billion-dollar bet on it. If
this is a losing bet – and let us hope that it
is – Ontarians will be paying the bill for
polluting gas plants we don’t need until 2047.
Either way, the people and businesses of Ontario
lose.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px
30px; padding: 0px;" class="">It doesn’t need to
be this way. Earlier this month, the <a
href="https://taf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/derps-20220930-final-report-volume-1.pdf"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 70,
127); transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s,
background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">IESO released
a much more thorough study</a> showing that it
would be more cost-effective to meet Ontario’s
energy needs using non-emitting distributed
energy resources (DERs).</p>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px
30px; padding: 0px;" class="">DERs include
solar, energy storage, and automated demand
response systems located close to loads in
existing facilities. Unlike new gas plants, DERs
don’t need to be built over the objections of
local communities, and they are fully compliant
with the federal government’s forthcoming <a
href="https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/canadian-environmental-protection-act-registry/publications/proposed-frame-clean-electricity-regulations.html"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 70,
127); transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s,
background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">clean
electricity regulation</a>. DERs are shown to
generate seven dollars for every one dollar
invested, and the benefits are distributed in
communities large and small across the province.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px
30px; padding: 0px;" class="">Large scale
centralized renewables backed by storage is also
an option, and overwhelmingly the choice for
other jurisdictions that need more generation
capacity. Renewables are set to account for
almost <a
href="https://www.iea.org/news/renewable-electricity-growth-is-accelerating-faster-than-ever-worldwide-supporting-the-emergence-of-the-new-global-energy-economy"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 70,
127); transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s,
background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">95% of the
increase in global power</a> capacity through
2026, with solar PV alone providing more than
half. In contrast, <a
href="https://rmi.org/report-release-headwinds-for-us-gas-power/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 70,
127); transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s,
background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">50% of planned
gas plants in the US</a> have been cancelled
prior to construction in recent years, across
red and blue states, in favour of cleaner and
more cost-effective alternatives.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px
30px; padding: 0px;" class="">The bottom line is
that investing in new gas fired power plants is
fiscally and environmentally reckless.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px
30px; padding: 0px;" class="">This Ontario
government doesn’t have a long-term energy plan,
nor a strategy to comply with the federal clean
electricity regulation. Instead, the province
and the IESO are rushing into a poor decision
that will come at an excessive cost, increasing
emissions, and losing our ‘clean grid’
advantage. But it’s not too late to change
course.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px
30px; padding: 0px;" class="">We’re confident
that municipalities with gas phaseout
resolutions (<a
href="https://www.cleanairalliance.org/ontario-municipalities-that-have-endorsed-gas-power-phase-out/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
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class="" moz-do-not-send="true">there are over
30</a>) and residents of communities near
proposed gas plant sites will be strong in their
opposition, just as they were in 2011. More than
a decade later, amidst growing climate concern
and availability of clean solutions, amidst
inflation and increasing carbon price – who <span
style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style:
italic;" class="">is</span> going to support
these plants? <a
href="https://abacusdata.ca/clean-energy-eclipsing-oil-and-gas/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 70,
127); transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s,
background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">Recent Abacus
polling</a> shows that most Ontarians think
clean energy will be more important for the
economy than fossil fuels within ten years.</p>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px
30px; padding: 0px;" class="">There’s a place
for any Ontarian’s voice who depends on clean,
reliable, affordable electricity. You could <a
href="https://www.infogo.gov.on.ca/infogo/home.html#orgProfile/202090/en"
style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 70,
127); transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s,
background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">contact the
Ministry of Energy</a> directly or <a
href="https://www.ola.org/en/get-involved/contact-mpp"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 70,
127); transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s,
background-color 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">ask your MPP</a> where
they stand and what they can do. All of us
should tell the province to put the brakes on
new gas plants and invest now in distributed
energy resources, large-scale renewables and
storage, and conservation. It’s the right path
for Ontario.</p>
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<p class="">Hi Alan</p>
<p class="">I do not want to defend Rex
Murphy but he is much more eloquent than
Monbiot.<br class="">
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<p class=""><img
data-visualcompletion="media-vc-image"
alt="May be an image of outdoors and
text that says 'Electric car fuel being
transported to the power station'"
class=" x1bwycvy x193iq5w x19kjcj4
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src="https://scontent.fyvr2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/312475236_10225155510849560_4867720192119588415_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=cLRcjxfo8WkAX8PoZam&tn=9jSOtPmcp6BAXiom&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr2-1.fna&oh=00_AT8rIxwX_zusUY8OcY2BzYRr2QmIeLhRc3vcXSZAQTao-Q&oe=63574B7A"
moz-do-not-send="true" width="400"
height="381" align="left">I checked out
that article by Monbiot. I used to be a
fan of Monbiot and his concept of
rewilding but was completely disillusioned
with him after learning from Jonathon Cook
of his blind support for NATO involvement
in Ukraine. At that time I also learned
from Angela Bischof that he supports
nuclear energy for climate change
remediation. So much for rewilding. <br
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<p class="">Like the CBC the Guardian has
become the mouth piece promoting the Davos
narrative feeding us opinions on climate
disaster without revealing their source.
It is ironic that the Monbiot oped has a
segue to an oped the Davos poster child
and eugenicist Yuval Harari.</p>
<p class="">Peace <br class="">
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<p class="">Art<br class="">
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">The Guardian has a piece by George Monbiot that is an antidote to the Rex Murphys of the world.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/19/van-gogh-sunflowers-just-stop-oil-tactics?CMP=share_btn_link" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/19/van-gogh-sunflowers-just-stop-oil-tactics?CMP=share_btn_link</a>
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