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1. Cuisinarts of the Air

   Appeared in the Financial Post Environmental groups are gloating over the conviction last week of Syncrude Canada Ltd., which now faces fines totaling $800,000 for failing to prevent the deaths of 1,606 ducks that alighted on a company tailings pond two ...

2. Dalton McGuinty’s “Grand Green Gesture” Comes With a Hefty Price Tag For Ontario

   Appeared in the Woodstock Sentinel-Review The Government of Ontario recently signed a $7 billion no-bid contract with two Korean companies to supply wind and solar power to the province. Officials claim the backroom deal will boost green industry and job ...

3. The man who fought the ‘neo-Luddites’

   Appeared in the Toronto Star In the prolonged absence of food, the body consumes its own muscle and tissue. Every movement causes excruciating pain. The skin cracks for lack of nutrients, inviting all manner of germs to overwhelm internal organs. Death ...

4. Cat Is out of the Bag on Green Shopping

   Appeared in the Detroit News With the arrival of reusable grocery bags, there appeared to be, at long last, a definitive eco-friendly answer to that question posed daily to consumers: Paper or plastic? Alas, it was not to be. Researchers recently ...

5. DDT: Banned Lifesaver

   Appeared in the Financial Post Death from malaria means convulsions and delirium, retching and diarrhea, joint and abdominal pain so excruciating that coma can be a blessing. The parasitic infection destroys the body’s red blood cells and clogs its ...

6. President Obama: You need Canuck oil

   Appeared in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, Fredericton Gleaner, and Kitchener Record A great deal is riding on President Barack Obama’s visit to Canada on Thursday. The decidedly green bent of his new administration has the potential to undercut Canada’s ...

7. Obama's anti-oil team; The president-elect is poised to hand environmental policy to people who want to punish petroleum

   Appeared in the Financial Post The environmental lobby is positively rapturous over Barack Obama's new Green Dream Team, appointed to stomp out our carbon footprint. In sharp contrast to the president-elect's relatively moderate-- if not ...

8. Air pollution deaths wildly exaggerated

   Appeared in the Financial Post The Canadian Medical Association grabbed headlines around the world this week by claiming that air pollution is killing citizens of Canada by the tens of thousands each year. Citing staggering new data, the association also ...

9. Taxes and caps: great cost, little benefit

   Appeared in Business in Vancouver Since 2001, the BC Government has done much to attract business and workers back to the province. The combination of restrained spending growth, lower taxes, and regulatory reductions have quickly and dramatically ...

10. Power Struggle: Restore Electricity Competition to Michigan

    Appeared in the Oakland Press The Michigan House and Senate have approved legislation to limit competition in the supply of electricity. The bills reverse reforms that had reduced the high energy costs that long plagued Michigan. To resurrect the ...