Yes, the glacier of Glacier Bay is receding—as it has from time to time for centuries. When President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry visited Alaska this week, they pointed to the receding glaciers as evidence that humans are the cause of “dangerous,”...
Today the Frontier Centre fror Public Policy released its latest report, Pipe, Dam and Electricity Dreams: Burdening Manitoba’s Next Generation written by Andrew Pickford. On June 20, 2014, the Public Utilities Board panel provides its report to the Manitoban...
A decision will shortly be made about whether to build the Keeyask and Conawapa hydroelectric dams and the associated Bipole III transmission line, which could cost Manitoba billions of dollars. This paper argues that, if approved, this will burden the next generation...
The debate surrounding hydraulic fracturing or fracking has become obscured by misinformation. Fracking is a technique that injects water and chemicals at high pressure into underground shale formations, shattering rock to release trapped natural gas. Much fear...
Big infrastructure spending plans in both Canada, the United States, and the European Union, all place a lot of emphasis on renewable energy displacing coal, gas and petroleum burning generating stations and motor vehicles. Yet little attention is given to the one...
The technology landscape consists of giant powerhouses like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and AOL (to name a few) and a veritable plethora of smaller companies ranging in size from one-person start-ups to mid-sized corporations. The one thing that all of these...
Up in our rural neck of the woods, where very little happens, everyone is in a tizzy. The wind companies have arrived. Suddenly, there are giant wind farms sprouting 30-storey turbines on our horizon. The wind company salesmen are knocking on doors trying to sign up...
Are we running out of oil? That's what the doomsayers say. We are past our (Hubbert's) peak and it's downhill from here. War, famine, pestilence, perhaps even extinction – those are the apocalyptic scenarios posited by folks predicting the oil age is over and the era...
'We were told it couldn't be done. Too many people had tried and failed.' -- Ray Dueck MORRIS -- Got gas? Gas from biomass, that is? Some people do, and they're laughing all the way to the bank. A biomass gasifier that turns straw into heat is proving a huge...
Can we win environmentally and economically by using Prairie biomass as heating fuel? Roger Samson emphatically says, “Yes.”
The reason for the buzz about switchgrass is it stores a tremendous amount of BTUs (British thermal units) to produce environmentally friendly heat from stoves and furnaces.
“The interest in pellet fuel stoves is really growing. It’s pretty much doubling every year”
Powerpoint Presentations from Biomass Conference Portage La Prairie
Farmer’s Indepent Weekly coverage of Biomass Conference in Portage La Prairie, February 2, 2006.
TORONTO -- After installing electricity meters in dozens of Ontario apartment buildings and townhouses, Ian Stewart thinks he has seen just about everything. Mr. Stewart has found apartments filled with illicit marijuana cultivators, multiple video duplicators and...