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Where should the green choices be made?

25 Sep 2006

The final section of the report applies the findings of the previous sections to the particular circumstances of Canada and of Ontario. [...] For example, in 1999 the Texas legislature considered the issue of whether eligible fuels could be used in existing facilities that had historically used ineligible fuels.14 The benefit of the fuel switch would produce many, if not all, of the intended benefits of the policy. [...] But the Public Utility Commission of Texas found that the point of the legislation was to provide for new capital investment in order to increase economic development in Texas and provide jobs, and to cause RE technology costs to decrease through the development of new capacity. [...] Once again, the key ingredient in any quest grounded in RE technologies to deliver upon this goal, in a manner in keeping with the public interest is the matching of the costs associated with the production and consequential costs of RE with other energy source alternatives. [...] Cumulatively, the amount of land flooded by the thousands of small-scale projects can be many times the amount of land flooded by the one large-scale project.
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Authors

Hariton, George

Pages
48
Published in
Canada

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