The private eye was investigating businessman Nazim Gillani and Mike Mihelic, a former Toronto Argonaut who works for Gillani. Both men are facing fraud charges on an unrelated matter.

Gillani has claimed to his associates that Jaffer, who is a partner in green energy consulting firm Green Power Generation Corp.,

apparently now as green as the sniffing snow.

whenever , the market is messed with government money these kind of folks are attracted to it.

Lorne Gunter at the NP has a piece about the greens being conspiracy theorists.
The searchlights shining on solar panels is the logical extension of doing stupid things with other people's money when smarter people are trying to get it. Let's see, costs me 8 cents and you will pay me how much?

http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/04/14/lorne-gunter-green-paranoia-on-parade.aspx

The "Renewable Energy and Scam" header says it all. This is precisely what the AGW crowd is all about. Follow the money.

Diesel powered solar panels – what’s next; coal fired wind turbines?

Scamsters taking advantage of gullible followers of the Global Warming religion? That's impossible!

Speaking of the present Environment Minister ..................

(sarc off)

It may be fraud, it may be deciet, and it may be an out-right lie, but anything done for the Greater Lefty Good is okay.

Smarten up, politicians! Start paying attention to this stuff, you imbeciles!

It is becoming clear now that with the state of technology and all the man-made imaginary problems around the climate/warming debate that politicians, nor their advisors are smart enough to know how to deal with the problems they imagine us to have.

At present rate we will soon have no reliable electrical service and no money left to buy candles.

It's time people.

The Brits rightfully recognized a major problem looming with the depetion of the North Sea oil production. They unfortunately reacted in the worst way possible. Rather than curb their spending excesses to match the new reality of their income, the government embarked on a knee jerk energy relpacement scheme.

As most gonvernment initiatives, they got this one badly wrong. Wrong on a very big scale.

"20. Gary Ogletree

Lord Obama just saved the world from Saskatchewan. And you people are bitching."

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/04/13/at-the-summit/#comment-103562

(Is Saskatchewan spelled correctly?)

Buy low, sell high.

Isn't that how it works?

Speaking of selling high, we have had a blizzard of radio commercials exhorting us to "Pay More for Power".

Why?

To save the planet for my son says the announcer. (the greatest hockey goalie of all time)

And the protests and complaints against a government that pushes forward with renewable energy and fuel requirements without meaningful input from Canadians or industry will start in... nah, I'm not waiting for it either.

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"OTTAWA - Environment Minister Jim Prentice says he is open to hearing industry input, but he intends to move forward with regulations increasing renewable fuel content in gasoline by September as a piece of the government's policies to reduce heat-trapping emissions in the atmosphere.

Petroleum product companies are suggesting that some gas stations around the country could run out of gas to sell this fall if the government doesn't give them more time to meet new targets that are slated to come into force in September.

But in an interview Prentice said that any debate about whether to move forward on the regulations that require gasoline to have a five per cent renewable content is no longer an issue.

"There's been much discussion of this over several years already," Prentice told Canwest News Service. "We're interested in their perspective on realistic timelines, but this needs to be done, these are the regulations we're proposing, and we need to move toward them expeditiously."

Further to:

There was a time when in England they killed cats on mass because they associated them with witches. Then the rats multiplied and then the black plague they carried killed nearly half of them and Europe.

When enough insect-eating birds have died in the blades of those windmills what will our leaders do about the predictor-free massive pestilence eating all the crops and driving us all crazy?

Just a thought.

Yes foobert and I know of one business that started down that road. When you went through the doors there as a sign boasting about using that 'power' company.

I don't know what happened but not long ago the sign disappeared.... Maybe the owner realized he had been duped into paying for what he was not getting. Its not like Epcor can shut down a coal fired turbine at Genesee when ever the wind starts to blow or fire one up every time the wind doesn't blow.

It looks like Jim Prentice is a member of the cult run by David Suzuki. Increasing biofuel content in gasoline and lowering car engine emissions are mutually exclusive. Never mind the physics, it will be "enforced under the criminal code by the Canadian Environmental Protection Agency." For similar examples of such idiocy ruling the nature by decree you have to go back to Stalinist USSR or Mao's China.

Abe, just another one of those unintended consequences. For the past year, we in Ontario are banned from using herbicides. As a result, the medical community is gearing up for an increase in pollen related illnesses this year.
Won't affect the politicians though. Government land is exempt.

why not skip the light stage and just hook up the AC into the output circuit of the solar panels.

And they should apply for a government grant so they don't have to pay for the panels.

Let's call it the Dulton Scam.

“This is just the tip of the iceberg,”.

More renooable energy.

Cliche meets "nice" reality in Al's AGW Update:

To be blogged under: Gaia's "summit".

"This is a very much more violent eruption, because it's interacting with ice and water," said Andy Russell, an expert in glacial flooding at the University of Newcastle in northern England. "It becomes much more explosive, instead of a nice lava flow oozing out of the ground."

"Emergency officials and scientists said the eruption under the ice cap was 10 to 20 times more powerful than one last month, and carried a much greater risk of widespread flooding."

"Most probably this eruption is taking place at the summit ... under the ice," he said."

...-

"Iceland evacuates hundreds as volcano erupts again"

http://www.mail.com/intl/Article.aspx/world/europe/APNews/Europe/20100414/U_EU-Iceland-Volcano?pageid=1

The real Green Power Revolution . . .

http://biggovernment.com/files/2010/04/damaged-broken-windmill.jpg

Carbon Arc Lamp
Built in 1942
850 million candlepower
Beam Length - 30,000 feet

Yep, those solar panels are obviously targets of the LUFTWAFFE!! LOL!

Amazing what greed will do for the stimulating 'renewable energy' to feed the power source - 6-cyl. flathead gasoline engine!!

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North"

xiat said @ 11:36 "It looks like Jim Prentice is a member of the cult run by David Suzuki."

Agreed, it does appear that he has been thoroughly brainwashed and impervious to contrary evidence. If he is just mouthing platitudes to the latte crowd he seems to be doing it quite enthusiastically.

Oh well, have to keep the wallet flap closed I guess until the Conservatives wake up.

The ethanol industry is no different than the wind/solar industry. It is all about crony capitalism and vote buying. Any consideration about the wise use of taxpayer money is ignored. Both the LPC and CPC are beholden to their "investments". They may not be as obvious as hooking up a generator to a solar panel but the effect on taxpayers is exactly the same.

http://www.ethanolproducer.com/article.jsp?article_id=1162
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Paul Martin...Here's a list of the recipients, along with a breakdown of how the money—$78 million in all—was divvied up.
-Suncor Energy Products Inc., Sarnia, Ontario:
CND$22 million
-Commercial Alcohols Inc., Varennes, Quebec:
CND$18 million
-Seaway Grain Processors Inc., Cornwall,
Ontario: CND$10.5 million
-Okanagan Biofuels Inc., Kelowna, British
Columbia: CND$10 million
-Husky Oil Operations Ltd., Lloydminster,
Saskatchewan: CND$7.8 million
-Husky Oil Marketing Co., Minnedosa,

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/article689327.ece
Mr. Ritz's warm salutation was more than a formality. Just 15 months earlier, Mr. Speer had been a policy adviser in Mr. Ritz's office, serving the member of Parliament when he was the chairman of the House of Commons agriculture committee prior to his cabinet appointment...Mr. Ritz quickly followed up his friendly introduction with some news that ethanol producers had been waiting to hear - and that their lobbyists had been pushing for - since Prime Minister Stephen Harper assumed office nearly two years earlier: The government would be introducing legislation that very day requiring refiners to include 5 per cent ethanol in their gasoline by 2010, ensuring a nationwide market for the biofuel products

"This is just the tip of the iceberg,”

Sadly,this iceberg has SO many tips.

Prentice and the government are hopelessly addicted to OUR tax money,and the more they can squeeze out of us,the better they like it.

I'm sending ANOTHER E-mail to the Conservative Party, mentioning they will LOSE my support if they don't get on board against the global warming scam.

CPC requests for donations - I have returned every one (perhaps a dozen now) with a terse "no donations from me until the Harper gov't stops playing around with the global warming scam."

dmorris:

There's the scam and there's the lip service paid to the scam by the CPC.

So far, all I see is hot air coming from Prentice, which is just fine with me. He can foot-drag with the best of them and the pressure is all on Obama to lead the dance.

"...Dong Energy, a Danish wind turbine owner..."

I refuse to grow up. If none of these people will be sensible, why should I?

True, setyoufree, and I hope that's what they're doing.

As to alcohol in the gasoline,a mechanic friend once told me the alcohol burns much hotter than gasoline and will damage the vehicle's valves. He said that natural gas vehicles also suffer the same problem,and the valves have to be replaced with a more heat compatible type.

Any mechanics here that can verify this?

government's policies to reduce heat-trapping emissions in the atmosphere.

Notice it's no longer CO2? The idea that our exhalent is a pollutant is becoming very close to debunked. They usually say "Greenhouse gas emissions," nowadays. "Heat-trapping emissions in the atmosphere" is new to me, but I bet we start hearing it a lot real soon.

I suppose that heat-trapping emissions allows them to broaden the number of gases that can be taxed. Water vapor alone could fund at least a doubling of the size of government. Cha-ching!

By their percentage contribution to the greenhouse effect[12][13] the four major gases are:

* water vapor, 36–70%
* carbon dioxide, 9–26%
* methane, 4–9%
* ozone, 3–7%

F for Choo-Choo.
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"UN's Climate Bible Gets 21 "F"s on Report Card

TORONTO -- 21 of 44 chapters in the United Nations' Nobel-winning climate bible earned an F on a report card released today. Forty citizen auditors from 12 countries examined 18,500 sources cited in the report – finding 5,600 to be not peer-reviewed.

Contrary to statements by the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the celebrated 2007 report does not rely solely on research published in reputable scientific journals. It also cites press releases, newspaper and magazine clippings, student theses, newsletters, discussion papers, and literature published by green advocacy groups. Such material is often called "grey literature."

"We've been told this report is the gold standard," says Canadian blogger Donna Laframboise, who organized the online crowdsourcing effort to examine the references. "We've been told it's 100 percent peer-reviewed science. But thousands of sources cited by this report have been nowhere near a scientific journal."

Based on the grading system used in US schools, 21 chapters in the IPCC report receive an F (they cite peer-reviewed sources less than 60% of the time), 4 chapters get a D, and 6 get a C. There are also 5 Bs and 8 As.

In November, IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri disparaged non-peer-reviewed research in an interview with the Times of India (see the end of the article):

IPCC studies only peer-review science. Let someone publish the
data in a decent credible publication. I am sure IPCC would then
accept it, otherwise we can just throw it into the dustbin.

THE CITIZEN AUDIT REPORT IS HERE(sic)"

http://www.noconsensus.org/ipcc-audit/press-release.php

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/14/ipcc-ar4-also-gets-a-failing-grade-on-21-chapters/#comments

@dmorris, didn't you try lighting alcohol on your skin in high school chemistry lab? Burns cooler, still burns, but it is cooler.

And pure ethanol burns really clean, and the flame is hard to see in daylight, google Tony Kanaan at the 2009 Rexall Edmonton Indy race.

"LarryOldtimer (16:26:33) :

Florida Power and Light just put its DeSoto photoelectricic solar plant on-line.

http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/10/26/highest-cost-generating-plant-comes-on-line-in-florida-to-obama-fanfare/

It cost 152 million dollars to construct and provides daytime electrical power too all of aproximately 3,000 homes and businesses.

That is a bit more than $50,000 per each home and business.

One engineer and 6 groundskeepers are employed full time, the engineer to trouble shoot and the groundskeepers to keep the grass trimmed and keep animals away . . . oh my, the “green jobs” provided.

Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad."

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/13/the-insanity-of-greenery/#comment-368215

29 coal miners dead in Virgina. I know though, it's still a perfect source for power and everything is completely wrong with wind. There's no such thing as in betweens.

Oh come one steve of course there is, but please try to sell that to the ones ramming the 'see it our way or go to jail' with their damn green taxed to hell plan down our throats.
Do you not think that we already do as much as we can to save energy and thereby contributing to the efforts of clean air, water and land?

No law forces any Canadian to recycle and yet by the millions we all dutifully set out our blue boxes weekly, or bi-weekly, so just who's not compromising here?

If you think ethanol in gasoline is bad, it is nowhere near as bad as bio based diesel products. They essentially turn solid well above the freezing point. Even a 5% blend can raise the cloud point of #1 diesel quite high.

First death from U.S. wind tower collapse recorded.

http://us.mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/AnyArticle/p.rdt?URL=http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2720796920070828

No risk in green activity.