Comments on: Changes to the Hamilton game plan

By: mattbg

mattbg — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:00:02 +0000

Good luck! And glad to hear the column will continue… I am a Star subscriber and it is good to read a column from a dedicated cleantech reporter, rather than someone who just tries cleantech reporting once in awhile.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:00:53 +0000

Hey Mark,

I’ll still be writing my weekly Clean Break column for the newspaper, so don’t worry. Plus, by not having daily news duties I can sharpen my voice in the column. It’s all good…

By: Mark Robinson

Mark Robinson — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:54:31 +0000

I’m going to miss your columns in the Star big time, but kudos to you for moving to something new. It was scary enough when I quit work and went back to school for meteorology so I admire your courage.

Still, it’s kind of unfortunate that we won’t have your columns and words to fight back against what feels like a tidal wave of denialism these days. I’m actually stunned at the degree to which basic science is being misunderstood or simply ignored. I have lots of fun arguing against the deniers who inevitably flocked to any one of your columns.

I’m going to stick around on your blog for sure so keep up the good work!

By: kev

kev — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:34:11 +0000

Kudos on you Tyler for helping change the energy landscape. You quote Obama, unfortunately the U.S. has decided to pull all funding for fuel cell research, both stationary and mobile. The U.S. walked away from Copenhagen and adopted the laggardly Canadian targets while China and India are about to hand us our asses.

This is bad Tyler. We still dont get it. Our own PM is heading in the opposite direction at light speed and Obama is seemingly tacitly following even though we believe he isnt; but he is in many ways. Ontario, Quebec, B.C, and Manitoba are all good with the east coast following but Alberta and Sask. are different beasts altogether because of an obvious conflict of interests; shall we say.

All I have to say is; how are we going to solve this problem? How do we bring these dinosaur energy superpowers into the fold? So we can move a national energy policy forward that serves all the citizens of Canada equally?

By: Paul C from Austin

Paul C from Austin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:13:03 +0000

Luck with your new endeavors, and glad to see that this blog will continue unabated. We need more like you to champion our collective move to a cleaner environment on all fronts.

By: Josh Cobden

Josh Cobden — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:05:26 +0000

The Star will miss you day-to-day but they must be relieved (as our your readers) that the weekly column will continue. Good luck the new game plan!!

By: steve lapp

steve lapp — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:18:35 +0000

Tyler:

It is great news that you will be able to apply even more of your pragmatism and knowledge in clean energy to encouraging growth in this sector in Canada. It is unfortunate that the current federal government is making huge mistakes in not embracing the clean tech sector, and I think as the rest of the world moves on towards lower CO2 emissions, the political cost of our government’s lack of strong initiative in the clean tech sector will hit home. Other than federal government policy, I see evidence everyday that higher energy efficiency and renewables are the future.

As we come up to our third cohort of graduates from our Energy Systems Engineering Technology program at St. Lawrence College, and despite some federal efficiency programs being droped, we see a market place hungry for graduates who have knowledge useful to the clean tech sector.

cheers

By: BAGrant

BAGrant — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:46:53 +0000

Good luck. I look forward to following the results of your projects.

By: jeffkart

jeffkart — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:58:30 +0000

Good for you. Longtime reader and dead-tree journalist here, who’s also expanding, freelancing out to the blogging world. There’s a lot of opportunity in this space. You’re a great link to Canada for a Michigan guy like myself.
Best,
Jeff.