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Ontario Introduces Green Stimulus Funds

With the province reeling from steep manufacturing employment declines, the Ontario government introduced a $24 billion stimulus budget on Thursday that includes $593 million in green-economy spending, as well as $2.6 billion for transit projects, mostly in the Greater Toronto region.

While Ontario’s 1.1 percent year-over-year job decline through January 2009 is well below the rate in the United States of 2.9 percent, the province’s export-oriented manufacturing sector has contracted by 11.1 percent, comparable to losses felt in states such as Indiana and Ohio.

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Economy Trumps Environment in Poll

My friend and colleague, Charles Blow, pointed me to this recent Gallup poll last night. Said the pollsters last Thursday:

For the first time in Gallup’s 25-year history of asking Americans about the trade-off between environmental protection and economic growth, a majority of Americans say economic growth should be given the priority, even if the environment suffers to some extent.

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Salazar Talks Guns, Parks and Solar Power

In an interview last Friday with The New York Times, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar promised “aggressive” pursuit of renewable energy projects on public lands, but provided no firm date for his department’s highly anticipated decision on the Cape Wind project in Massachusetts .

“From my point of view, I am not going to let political issues stand in the way of us moving forward with an energy program in the offshore,” he said.

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E.P.A. Proposal Calls Greenhouse Gases a Danger to the Public

The Environmental Protection Agency has sent a proposal to the White House that would label carbon dioxide a danger to public welfare — a key precursor to regulating greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants.

The long-awaited finding, sent to the Office of Management and Budget, stems from a 2007 Supreme Court decision in which the agency was found to have the authority to regulate emissions that contribute to global warming.

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Advocates - Cash Is Critical for Climate Deal

How much money should the rich world be willing to put up to entice the developing world to accept some form of limits on their emissions? And how soon should the rich world put its offer on the table?

Those questions came no closer to being answered on Friday during a meeting of European Union officials — much to the fury of green politicians in the European Parliament and several environmental and antipoverty groups, including Oxfam, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and WWF.

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Michael Steele: ‘We Are Not Warming’

Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, said we live on a cooling planet.

The Republican National Committee Chairman, Michael Steele, has weighed in on climate change.

In a March 6 radio appearance that is only now percolating through the blogosphere, Mr. Steele apparently fielded a skeptic’s question about global warming. As transcribed by The Huffington Post, a liberal site, Mr. Steele thanked the questioner and replied this way:

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Kissing Edison’s Light Bulb Goodbye

The European Commission formally adopted new regulations on Wednesday that will effectively phase out incandescent light bulbs in Europe by 2012.

The switch to energy-efficient lamps for homes, offices, streets and factories, officials said, would generate energy savings equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of Belgium – or the yearly output of 20 power stations of 500 megawatts.

For their part, consumers would save 11 billion euros — or $14 billion — each year that they otherwise would have spent on energy bills.

The European energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs said the goal was “replacing last century lighting products” with technologies that “will keep the same quality of lighting, while saving energy, CO2 and money.”

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Despite Gloom, Promising Clean-Tech Trends

In 2009, long-distance transmission lines will be in high demand to connect renewable resources in rural areas to population centers, according to a new report.

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The Quarrel Over Coal Ash Waste

The area around the Kingston Fossil Plant in Harriman, Tenn., where 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash spilled last December. The Natural Resources Defense Council warns that more of this is likely.

The Natural Resources Defense Council on Thursday released a list of what it called the top 15 “filthy” states where plans to build new coal-fired power plants will lead to the production of 14 million additional tons of coal ash waste each year.

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Boulder Considers Carbon Tax Increase

The city of Boulder, Colo., is considering an increase in its carbon tax — though that likely won’t be enough to meet greenhouse goals.

The first city in the United States to introduce a carbon tax may have to raise it in order to meet emissions-reduction targets.

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Amid Hard Times, A View From Off the Grid

On Warren Pond Farm near Ithaca, N.Y., aims to use alternative energy and employ environmentally friendly farming practices. They also raise buffalo.

When the economy began tumbling last fall, I immediately thought of Jill Swenson.

Jill is a friend and former college professor who, in 2002, quit her appointment teaching journalism at Ithaca College to become, along with her partner, Sam Warren, a full-time organic farmer and self-sufficient producer of power.

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E.P.A. Proposes Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed a rule that would require a broad range of industries to tally and report their greenhouse gas emissions.

The move was hailed by environmentalists as an important precursor to regulating greenhouse gas emissions, as the Obama administration is expected to do.

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Integrating Wind and Hydro Power in Quebec

Can wind and water be combined to reliably produce clean power?

When Hydro-Quebec begins construction next summer on the 1550 MW La Romaine hydroelectric dam, the $2.8 billion-a-year utility will be simultaneously developing smart grid control and load forecasting technologies aimed at integrating hydropower with Quebec’s fast growing inventory of wind farms.

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Companies Earn Big Profits From Free Carbon Credits

Discussion of carbon cap-and-trade systems usually focuses on whether such schemes can set a workable price for permits, given the volatility that has characterized the system in Europe.

Companies are concerned that issuing too few permits will make them costly and force industry to spend a lot of money to clean up their operations. Environmentalists are concerned that issuing too many permits would make them cheap and allow companies and industry to get away with doing too little remediation.

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Los Angeles Solar Measure Falls Behind

A controversial ballot measure in Los Angeles to increase solar power installations in the city has fallen behind, and will be rejected unless thousands of late or provisional ballots swing the outcome.

Measure B, as the issue was known, would require the local utility — the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power — to ramp up solar-power production dramatically by installing 400 megawatts’ worth of panels by 2014. (That is a substantial amount — nearly one-third of the size of a record solar deal recently signed by Southern California Edison.)

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Obama Suspends Bush Rule on Endangered Species

Wildlife biologists will have to be consulted over decisions that may affect him.

President Obama today asked federal agencies to consult with wildlife biologists over decisions that may affect threatened or endangered species.

The memorandum effectively suspends a December 2008 rule issued by the Bush administration, which waived requirements that agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers consult with experts at the Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service when undertaking projects like building dams.

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Biden, Luminaries Promote Green Jobs

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., right, was joined by Labor Secretary-Designate Hilda Solis, second right, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Energy Secretary Steven Chu, among others, at a meeting of the Obama administration’s Middle Class Task Force in Philadelphia on Friday.

At an event to promote green jobs for the middle class today in Philadelphia, Vice President Joe Biden hailed the arrival of many thousands of jobs in the new energy economy, which he described as “good, high-paying jobs, the vast majority of which are not exportable.”

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Stimulating Clean Tech Start-Ups

Clean technology start-ups desperately need the money that President Obama promised the sector in the stimulus plan, said a report Wednesday from the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Clean tech was the sole bright spot in venture investing last year, with $4 billion going into start-ups in the sector — an increase of 54 percent from $2.7 billion in 2007. Still, since last fall, when the credit crisis deepened and investors began growing skittish, many of those renewable energy and smart grid projects have stalled.

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Leaky Nuclear Research Facility Stirs Debate in Canada

A Canadian nuclear facility that produces at least of half of the world’s supply of medical isotopes has a long history of leaks and unanticipated maintenance delays. And little wonder. The reactor — part of the Atomic Energy of Canada’s Chalk River Laboratories in Eastern Ontario — has been in operation for nearly 52 years.

Two successor reactors which were to replace it have been abandoned because of engineering and financial problems. And recently, the reactor at Chalk River has gone through a particularly bad patch. There have been three leaks at the facility since December.

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Freshwater Wind Farms for the Great Lakes?

Here’s a pressing question about freshwater offshore wind farms: what about the winter ice?

That’s one of the many engineering challenges posed by developing massive offshore wind farms in the Great Lakes, an idea that’s now very much on the policy radars of renewable energy planners in Ohio and Wisconsin.

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