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1. Government meddling and increased air pollution

   By eliminating road-pricing, Quebec reduced the cost of using an automobile and increased levels of air pollution. ...

2. Canada’s carbon sticker shock shouldn’t shock anyone

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, April 8, 2017 According to a recently revealed document, Environment Canada told Liberal government officials in 2015 that Canada would need a carbon tax of $200 to $300 per tonne of greenhouse gases emitted by 2050 to meet ...

3. 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, ...

4. 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 ...

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. NDP leader's overheated rhetoric distorts Canada's environmental record

   Appeared in Charlottetown Guardian and stockwatch.ca Thomas Mulcair, federal NDP leader and Leader of the Opposition, has recently been berating Canada’s environmental performance as he travels in the United States: “In the U.S. people know how to read,” ...