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1. Wynne government ignores lessons from recent past on the pitfalls of cap-and-trade

   Appeared in the Windsor Star, March 2, 2016 Last week, the Ontario government released draft regulations under which 102 large industrial emitters will get free allowances to produce greenhouse gases (GHGs) at current levels in 2017 and would then have to ...

2. 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, ...

3. 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 ...

4. EPA puts another roadblock in front of Keystone XL pipeline

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record The newest entrant into the ongoing saga of the serially-delayed Keystone XL pipeline is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which recently created yet another reason to delay the project that would carry ...

5. 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 ...

6. Who Could Object to a Carbon Tax?

   Appeared in The Province, Huffington Post, and Okanagan Saturday, Dec 5, 2014 Carbon taxes are back on centre stage in Canada, after a new “bipartisan” Ecofiscal Commission came out in favour of the idea. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is also talking ...

7. 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 ...

8. Why 40-40 is Foolish-Foolish

   Appeared in the Provost News Carbon taxes are once again dominating the discussion over energy policy in Alberta, where Environment Minister Diana McQueen has proposed a sharp hike to Alberta’s carbon levy. Presently, large emitters in Alberta are ...

9. Does the EU value emissions over human rights?

   Appeared in European Voice The European Commission was wrongheaded when, in October, it singled out oil extracted from Canada's ‘tar sands' by proposing a higher carbon-emissions value for it than for other sources of fossil fuel. Given that ...