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- 1, "IESO - less dispatching of nuclear if you please", Don Jones, ontariowindresistance.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/ieso-less-dispatching-of-nuclear-if-you-please1.pdf
- 2, "An alternative Long-Term Energy Plan for Ontario - Greenhouse gas-free electricity by 2045", Don Jones, coldaircurrents.blogspot.com/2011/05/alternative-long-term-energy-plan-for.html also earlier version posted on canadianenergyissues.com/2011/04/20/guest-post-by-donald-jones-%25e2%2580%259can-alternative-long-term-energy-plan-for-ontario%25e2%2580%2594an-8020-nuclearhydro-generation-mix-by-2045%25e2%2580%259d/
- 3, "IESO - will Ontario's wind turbine power plants reduce greenhouse gas emissions?", Don Jones, ontario-wind-resistance.org/2010/08/23/ieso-will-ontarios-wind-turbine-power-plants-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
- 4, "Gas and wind on the Ontario grid - not a chicken and egg thing", Don Jones, ontario-wind-resistance.org/2010/11/20/gas-and-wind-on-the-ontario-grid-not-a-chicken-and-egg-thing/
- 5, "Ontario needs more than 2,000 MW of new nuclear despite what the Long-Term Energy Plan says", Don Jones, coldaircurrents.blogspot.com/2011/01/ontario-needs-more-than-2000-mw-of-new.html
- 6, "More wind means more risk to the Ontario electricity grid", Don Jones, coldaircurrents.blogspot.com/2011/01/more-wind-means-more-risk-to-ontario.html also posted on ontariowindperformance.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/more-wind-means-more-risk-to-the-ontario-electricity-grid/
- 7, "Why Ontario has to export electricity", Don Jones, windfarmrealities.org/?p=835
- 8, "Nuclear and Wind on the Ontario Electricity Grid", Don Jones, ontario-wind-resistance.org/2009/07/20/nuclear-and-wind-on-the-ontario-electricity-grid/
- 9, "Time for the Ontario government to rethink this gas and wind thing", Don Jones, ontario-wind-resistance.org/2010/06/08/time-for-the-ontario-government-to-rethink-this-gas-and-wind-thing/
- 10, "Ontario's CANDUs can be more flexible than gas-fired generation and hydro generation", Don Jones, atomicinsights.com/2011/12/ontarios-candus-can-be-more-flexible-than-natural-gas-and-hydro.html . Also posted on coldaircurrents.blogspot.com/2011/11/ontarios-candus-can-be-more-flexible.html and canadianenergyissues.com/2011/11/09/ontarios-nuclear-electric-generation-can-be-more-flexible-than-natural-gas-fired-generation/ and www.computare.org/Support%20documents/Guests/Don%20Jones/Don%20Jones%2011_11.pdf
- 11, "Ontario's future economy dependent on precarious natural gas", Don Jones, ontario-wind-resistance.org/2010/11/29/ontarios-future-economy-dependent-on-precarious-natural-gas/
- 12, "Another inconvenient truth", Don Jones, ontario-wind-resistance.org/2009/01/02/another-inconvenient-truth/
- 13, " Failure to condemn wind may condemn Darlington B", Don Jones, canadianenergyissues.com/2012/02/13/failure-to-condemn-wind-may-condemn-darlington-b/
- Note: Articles 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, and 13 also appeared in the Canadian Nuclear Society's BULLETIN quarterly journal. The BULLETIN also has more of Don's articles that are not on the internet.
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