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1. If carbon taxes work, why all the new regulations?

   Appeared in the National Post, October 7, 2020 Many economists were excited a few years ago when the federal Liberals committed to introducing a carbon tax. Whether they were specialists in environmental economics or not, they knew from their introductory ...

2. You can believe in climate science without supporting every proposed climate policy

   Appeared in the National Post, March 4, 2020 There’s an assumption out there that if you “accept” the science of climate change you are obliged to support drastic measures to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This is not true. One does not follow from ...

3. Mayors hope to shake down energy companies

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, January 16, 2019 The West Coast Environmental Law Society, an advocacy organization based in Vancouver, has persuaded a group of British Columbia mayors and city councillors to write threatening letters to major oil and ...

4. Conference Board report misrepresents Canada’s air quality

   The Conference Board of Canada last year released a report that compared environmental performance for 16 high-income countries including Canada. Surprisingly, we ranked at or near the bottom on most of the nine indicators assessed. Air ...

5. Canada’s air quality dramatically improved despite increased energy use

   In recent decades, Canada has experienced something many environmentalists thought couldn’t happen—strong economic growth and large reductions in pollution. This is a good news story that deserves telling, and a recent Fraser Institute ...

6. The Principle of Targeting in Energy and Environmental Policy

   The Principle of Targeting is a basic and simple rule for policymaking that helps minimize the cost of government intervention. Its core idea is that if a new regulation of some sort is required, the most efficient intervention targets the specific ...