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1. A federal carbon tax—a cash grab that could damage the economy

   Provincial carbon taxes will continue to distort energy markets, raise energy and food prices, and reduce economic competitiveness. ...

2. Gloomy report misrepresents Canada’s environmental performance

   Canada’s greenhouse gas levels have been declining since 2005. ...

3. Fossil fuel-free activists should focus first on self-sacrifice

   UBC students, faculty and staff groups have passed resolutions calling for the university to divest itself of fossil fuel investments. This effort has not convinced the university’s board of governors. At its most recent meeting, it ...

4. Sorry, Premier Notley, you can’t have your own facts

   Alberta’s new premier, Rachel Notley (pictured above), has stirred up a bit of controversy over the way she has portrayed Calgary’s environmental record. In remarks made during a televised appearance, Premier Notley compares Alberta to ...

5. Canada’s greenhouse gas story: better than advertised

   Appeared in the National Post A new report from the government of Canada, on Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2013, is making news. And as usual, the bad news leads. The media focus is on the probability that Canada will miss its Copenhagen ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. Not-so-dedicated funds

   Appeared in the Orange County Register When pitching new programs, politicians love their 'dedicated' funds: highway trust funds, housing trust funds, environmental protection funds, wildlife-protection funds, and so on. Most recently, under AB ...

10. 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 ...