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<p>Allan<br>
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<p>I think we are on the same page mostly. I also have made life
style choices that have minimized my carbon footprint. <br>
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<p>Interesting that the clean energy Review is published out of
Simon Frazer. my billionaire reference was to Bloomberg who I
suspect has controlling interest in the Bloomberg news service.</p>
<p>Art<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/25/22 6:16 p.m., Allan Baker
wrote:<br>
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<div class="">I agree that the items on your list are issues we
must deal with, but they’re not the only ones. Let’s add
deeply affordable housing, income and wealth inequality,
unequal access to our health care system, our relationship
with the descendants of the first occupants of Turtle Island,
racism in Canadian society, the plague of food banks made
necessary by unequal access to food, and so on.</div>
<div class="">How can anyone deal with all of these, or even
rank them in importance? My solution is to focus my energy on
a couple, or maybe three issues, try to learn as much as I can
(continually), and devote myself and my energy to those few
causes.</div>
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<div class="">So, that’s why climate change is an issue I’m
passionate about. I think that it underlies some of the other
issues that you wrote about. For example, climate change was
the ignition point which inflamed a war in Syria: it is also a
major reason behind the movement of people from Central
America towards the United States of America.</div>
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<ul class="">
<li class="">It is why I have been out planting trees this
Fall, for example.</li>
<li class="">It is why I was on the Executive Cue. Of a
conservation organization for nine years.</li>
<li class="">It is why I devote time, most weeks, as a
volunteer at an internationally known conservation
organization here in Toronto - our Toronto Zoo.</li>
<li class="">It is why I have made so many decisions in my
personal life to reduce my carbon footprint.</li>
<li class=""><br class="">
</li>
<li class="">I know that some may think that one person
can’t influence the way of the world, but I’m trying to do
what is in my power to make this a better world. As Bobby
Kennedy said, few have the strength to end the curve of
history, but each of us can work to change a small portion
of events and in the end these small bits will add up to
the history of this generation. David Korten said
something similar. I believe you can recall that there are
parables, attributed to Jesus, that have a similar tone of
affirmation of our efforts.</li>
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<div class="">I do have a question about your comments on the
piece from Clean Energy Canada.</div>
<div class="">They are an organization which is a part of Simon
Fraser University.</div>
<div class="">Clean Energy Canada is part of the Morris J. Wosk
Centre for Dialogue. After receiving your e-mail I had to do
some research on that man, and discovered he died 20 years
ago. Who is the Billionaire you were writing about?</div>
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<div class="">Here in Ontario the news about energy just goes
from bad to worse as Ford has now secured almost a billion
dollars from the feds to experiment with a Small Modular
Reactor at the Darlington site of OPG. God help us!</div>
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<div class="">Stay hopeful;</div>
<div class="">Allan</div>
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<p class="">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.
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<p class="">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 class="">
</p>
<p class="">I rank the crisis of our times in the
following order. how about you?</p>
<ol class="">
<li class="">War, nuclear war and arms proliferation</li>
<li class="">depletion of our global soil quality
caused by mono cropping <br class="">
</li>
<li class="">the dissolution of our food supply and
ecosystem with man made chemicals.</li>
<li class="">Gain of function research , the
creation of bio-weapons and unleashing of GMO's
into our environment</li>
<li class="">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 class="">
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<p class="">Just rambling on. but in good faith</p>
<p class="">Art<br class="">
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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>
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climate solutions start to
bend the emissions curve
down, we are—according <a
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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
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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>
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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>
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</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;
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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
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$1 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;
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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
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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;
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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;
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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;
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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
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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"
style="box-sizing: inherit;
color: rgb(0, 70, 127);
transition: color 0.2s
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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
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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
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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
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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
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alt="May be an image of
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says 'Electric car fuel
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power station'" class="
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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>
<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>
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10/20/22 6:41 a.m., Allan
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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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