Mark Winfield

The Nuclear Juggernaut

15 December, 2009 | Mark Winfield

The summer of 2009 marked a tumultuous stage in the evolution of electricity policy in Ontario, and the future path of the province’s electricity system remains uncertain.

Published in: New Energy 36.1
Tags: renewables, renewable energy, Ontario power authority, nuclear energy, green energy act, green economy, george smitherman

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Point-Counterpart: To Incinerate or Not to Incinerate

27 May, 2009 | Richard Gilbert and Mark Winfield

Richard Gilbert opens

Waste is what we have used and have no further use for. Incinerating waste, I believe, is a better environmental solution than landfilling.

Only a limited amount of waste occurs in nature. Animals produce waste in the form of faeces, which, in turn, provide nutrients for other parts of the ecosystem. In contrast, we humans appropriate and discard major material flows beyond what is required for our metabolism and beyond what our local ecosystems can handle.