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1. Despite protests, fracking risks are modest and manageable

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, November 4, 2015 There’s never a dull moment in the debate over the safety of hydraulic fracturing—a process where water, sand, and a small amount of chemicals under high pressure are used to crack open rock formations, ...

2. Managing the Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing: An Update

   Activist groups continue to oppose hydraulic fracturing, a new application of old technologies that is unlocking vast supplies of oil and natural gas in the United States and Canada. This opposition has resulted in the establishment of moratoria in ...

3. Equalization allows Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to pass up jobs, income, and tax revenues

   Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, New Glasgow Daily News, and Red Deer Advocate Dec 23, 2014 Canada’s federal equalization program is motivated by good intentions. However, the program has unintended consequences, and creates perverse ...

4. Managing the Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing

   Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is a relatively new application of several old technologies used in oil and gas extraction that has made it possible to unlock large quantities of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons—fuels that can be used to access new and ...

5. New Brunswick ignores energy success up north and in Pennsylvania

     In the recent New Brunswick election, an unremarkable engineering activity apparently took front and centre: hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, popularly known as fracking. The outgoing premier, David Alward, was clearly in favour of fracking. He ...

6. Premature action on fracking

   Appeared in the Summerside Journal-Pioneer and Miramichi Leader Nova Scotia’s government recently announced it would table legislation to establish a moratorium on the practice of hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) for the production of natural gas in ...

7. Canadian oil can make the world a safer place

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal Given Canada's proximity to the United States, we tend to take our peace and security for granted. This comfortable distance from most of the world's violence has also led us to underestimate ...

8. Obama's message to Canada: We don't want your oil

   Appeared in the Huffington Post Once again, energy policy was an element of President Obama's State of the Union Address (2014). What's interesting is both what's seen, and what is not seen. Here, in the quotes related to energy, is what& ...

9. Never underestimate the potential for bad policy

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun and Owen Sound Sun Times Back in 2005, the Fraser Institute published a policy study examining the Ontario government's decision to shut down coal-fired power generation in the province. We observed that while the ...

10. Canada is a country, not a set of provincial fiefdoms

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Victoria Times Colonist and Winnipeg Free Press When Christy Clark recently asserted British Columbia didn’t need the federal government and also said “we don't need Alberta,” the B.C. premier ...