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1. A new twist on the carbon tax?

   The plan includes a “carbon price” between $20 per tonne and $50 per tonne on fuels. ...

2. Climate change—to pay, or not to pay?

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, December 4, 2019 With the holidays fast approaching, you may have missed the latest (and final) report from Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, a “group of experienced, policy-minded economists,” which admitted that all those ...

3. Carbon leakage—the Whac-A-Mole effect

   There are many problems with Canada’s federal carbon tax plan, which will rise to $50 per tonne of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2022, including that a national carbon tax will inevitably be inequitable at the provincial level. Some ...

4. Canada’s flawed carbon pricing

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, May 8, 2019 The first test, that provinces will be able to resist the new federal carbon tax, has concluded. And opponents of the federal carbon tax have come away empty-handed. In a split 3-2 decision, last week the ...

5. Eco-group presents a few strawmen and two red herrings

   The Ecofiscal Commission, which pushes pollution pricing, recently released a report called “ 10 myths about carbon pricing in Canada,” which fails to live up to its title. For example, it claims that some people propagate the myth that ...

6. Carbon pricing in Canada—myth and reality

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, April 24, 2019 In recent eco-news, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, a self-appointed group that pushes pollution-pricing (believing that such mechanisms are superior to regulatory approaches), recently released a report called ...

7. Electricity consumers (you and me) pay for misguided policies that distort energy markets

   As researchers at the Fraser Institute have shown, government “green” policies in Ontario lead to significantly higher power prices. Specifically, thanks to the Green Energy Act and poor energy governance, Ontario ratepayers got walloped: ...

8. Federal carbon tax falls well short of textbook design

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, April 3, 2019 On Monday, April Fool’s Day, the federal carbon tax kicked in, in the four provinces that do not have their own carbon taxes—Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick. The federal carbon tax (technically ...

9. Beware—stealthy carbon tax edges closer to reality

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, February 6, 2019 The Trudeau government is moving toward a Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) for Canada—basically, a set of government mandates to use transportation fuels that are lower in greenhouse gas emissions. As I observed last ...

10. Carbon taxes—there are other ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

    Appeared in the Calgary Sun, December 12, 2018 Paris is burning. Rioters are running rampant on the Champs-Elysees and spraying graffiti on the Arc de Triomph. The initial conflagration has been attributed to high energy costs, made more expensive partly ...