Energy Probe

Energy Probe is a non-governmental social, economic, and environmental policy organization based in Toronto, Canada known recently for denying man-made climate change.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

It was founded in 1970 as a sister project of Pollution Probe.[9] In this early period, the focus was on the publicly owned Ontario Hydro's predictions of energy usage seeing continual growth and their demands to build a huge fleet of nuclear reactors to service this demand. They published a number of reports in the late 1970s estimating usage in 2000 would be significantly below that predicted by Hydro, numbers that were matched by those of the Ontario Ministry of Energy's own calculations, and eventually, Hydro itself. The organization is well known for its anti-nuclear energy stance, opposing nuclear energy production in Canada, especially in the case of nuclear plants in Ontario, on the grounds that nuclear power production is uneconomic.[10]

In 1980, the two organizations formally separated and the Energy Probe Research Foundation (EPRF) was created, describing itself as "one of Canada's largest independent think tanks, with 17 public policy researchers", focusing "on the economic, environmental, and social impacts of the use and production of energy."[11][12][13] After its separation and incorporation, and led from then on by Lawrence Solomon, EPRF began to accept funding from the oil and gas industry, and, in 1983, began a campaign "to educate Canadians to the social, environmental and economic benefits of less regulation in the petroleum field."[14] In the 1980s, the organization was also responsible for a proposal to dismantle Hydro in favour of privatization.[15]

Additional divisions within Energy Probe are the Urban Renaissance Institute,[16] Probe International,[17] Environment Probe, the Environmental Bureau of Investigation, and the Consumer Policy Institute.[18]

  1. ^ "Energy Probe Research Foundation". Energy Probe Research Foundation. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
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  9. ^ Dewar, E. (1995). Cloak of green: The links between key environmental groups, government and big business. James Lorimer & Company Ltd. ISBN 9781550284508.
  10. ^ "Nuclear Power". Energy Probe. 2010-09-10. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  11. ^ EPRF 'About Us' web page Archived 2011-10-11 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 18 October 2011.
  12. ^ "A Look into Canada's Most Controversial Environmental Organization". Vice. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  13. ^ Paehlke, R (1995). Conservation and Environmentalism: an encyclopaedia. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780824061012.
  14. ^ O'Connor, Ryan (2015-10-15). The First Green Wave: Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario. UBC Press. ISBN 9780774828116.
  15. ^ energyprbe (2009-10-05). "Breaking up Ontario's Hydro's Monopoly". Energy Probe. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  16. ^ http://urban.probeinternational.org/
  17. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2021-10-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. ^ "Our Divisions". Energy Probe Research Foundation. 2010-12-10. Retrieved 2017-07-15.