All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Industrial

Ontario has become a net importer of electricity and power which used to be a cost advantage has now become a cost disadvantage Will a new nuclear building program add to the huge debt being paid down by electricity consumers in Ontario Would Ontario be better off if a private company like Bruce Nuclear...

PVC Resin Producers such as Shintech, Westlake, and Georgia Gulf will have a difficult time maintaining profitability in 2008 as they deal with higher feedstock costs and a PVC pipe market that shows little sign of recovering this year.  National distributors such as Ferguson, a division of Wolseley...

From time to time, there is speculation on a new technology (mainly hype), involving metal alloys that use any of the Platinum Group Metals.(PGM). What metrics would have had to change in this market, to result in wild speculative price fluctuations?

Luckily for the free world the US is the world's largest producer of the metal molybdenum. Rhenium is contained as trace element in both the primary molybdenum ore mined in North America-which is responsible for 40% of North American molybdenum production-and in the molybdenum itself contained...

With over 42 TW (42 Billion Kw) worth of electricity exports in 2006 and in comparison to USA standing at half this amount, Canada stands as the "muscle exporter" of electricity in the American continent. Today's announcement to build a 2 Reactor Power Plant in Ontario keeps this Canadian Provice(Ontario)...

Social networking is evolving beyond MySpace and Facebook. Social networking is evolving towards social collaboration.

The hopeless housing market puts US PVC makers in a very poor position.  Global PVC capacity is up, and prices and margins are falling.  New capacity will toughen the market conditions on a global basis.  In the meantime, falling chlorine consumption is sending caustic prices higher.

A call for a revolution in how we use energy is overdue.  But the "real" revolution will come when we learn as a society how to harvest it, not mine it.  That means going with renewables and efficiency, not traditional nuclear and fossil fuel systems that are just more of the same, and more...

This is not a news article; it is an advert for the Ontario government.$1.15BB spread over the areas listed is sufficient funding to yield sustainable success in any of them.  And the Ontario government should not crow about the $7BB it has spent on building the automotive industry and saving thousands...

1. There is still substantial doubt about whether Global Warming is occurring. 2. There is even more doubt regarding whether human activity is even partially responsible for Global Warming. 3. We are in a "world of hurt" when our young people tout Al Gore as "one of the top living scientists."