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1. Federal Reforms and the Empty Shell of Environmental Assessment

   In February 2018, Catherine McKenna, the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, introduced Bill C-69, the Trudeau government’s proposal for reform to federal environmental assessment law. Bill C-69 will, among other things, replace the ...

2. Canada's Air Quality Since 1970: An Environmental Success Story

   Canadians have long been concerned about the state of our air quality and the belief that air pollution is a major problem seems to be widespread. This publication examines the evolution of air quality in Canada from the 1970s onward and looks at how the ...

3. Did the Coal Phase-out Reduce Ontario Air Pollution?

   In 2005, the province of Ontario began a process that would eventually lead to the phasing out of its coal-fired power plants, the largest of which were the Lambton and Nanticoke facilities in southern Ontario. The rationale for shuttering these plants ...

4. Energy Transportation and Tanker Safety in Canada

   With several rapidly industrializing emerging economies, world energy demand is booming and this growth trend is projected to continue for several decades to come. Liquid fossil fuels are and will con¬tinue to be a primary component of global energy ...

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. Climate Policy Implications of the Hiatus in Global Warming

   The fact that CO2 emissions lead to changes in the atmospheric carbon concentration is not controversial. Nor is the fact that CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) absorb infrared energy in the atmosphere and contribute to the overall greenhouse effect. ...

7. Economic Freedom and Air Quality

   It is well established that economic freedom is one of the main drivers of economic prosperity. Economic freedom is the extent to which you can pursue economic activity without government interference as long as your actions don?t violate the rights of ...

8. Canadian Environmental Indicators- Water

   Canadians are concerned about the abundance and quality of our freshwater resources, yet information is widely dispersed and often difficult to obtain. This publication reviews a wide array of data and government publications to assess the state of Canada ...

9. Environmental and Economic Consequences of Ontario's Green Energy Act

   This report investigates the effect of the Green Energy Act(GEA) on economic competitiveness in Ontario. It focuses on three questions: (1) Will the GEA materially improve environmental quality in Ontario? (2) Is it a cost-effective plan for accomplishing ...

10. Critical Topics in Global Warming

    The issue of global warming is the subject of two parallel debates: one scientific, focused on the analysis of complex and conflicting data; the other political, addressing what is the proper response of government to a hypothetical risk. https://www ...