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1. Alberta must continue to cut ‘green’ red tape

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, November 19, 2019 The Kenney government is reportedly merging Alberta’s two departments responsible for environmental monitoring and climate change policy. One might think the overlap in areas of interest is obvious, but not ...

2. Notley's late (and little) holiday gift for Alberta

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, December 19, 2018 After a first ministers meeting where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had to be cajoled and threatened with a boycotting minister to get important energy policy onto the agenda, Premier Rachel Notley, once ...

3. Bill C-69—a dagger pointed straight at Alberta

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, October 24, 2018 When testifying to the Senate Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources, Ross McKitrick, University of Guelph professor and Fraser Institute senior fellow, noted the many failings of ...

4. Alberta can help alleviate energy poverty at home and abroad

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, August 29, 2018 Bjorn Lomborg, author of “ The Skeptical Environmentalist ” and president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, recently published an excellent essay on energy poverty. Lomborg makes many important points, but ...

5. Empty office buildings in Calgary reflect poor policy choices in Edmonton

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, August 15, 2018 Several news reports have documented the bleak reality for office vacancy rates in Calgary. According to one CBC report, office vacancy is as high as in 2008, with nearly 28 per cent of offices in the city core ...

6. Report recommendations would politicize decision-making of energy projects

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, May 20, 2017 This week, a panel of experts submitted a report to the federal government, laying out a deep restructuring of energy transmission regulation in Canada. The report, published on the National Energy Board’s ...

7. Alberta’s cap on oilsands emissions could cost billions

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, August 20, 2016 Alberta’s energy industry has been hit hard by the decline in oil prices, but the province is still home to the world’s third largest oil reserves, and despite a temporary glut, oil will still largely power ...

8. How Alberta's Carbon Emission Cap Will Reduce Oil Sands Growth

   The Alberta government has proposed implementing a 100 megatonne (Mt) cap on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that result from oil sands operations. This paper estimated future emissions levels from oil sands production using oil sands production ...

9. Troubled waters ahead for Canadian energy development

   Canada’s potential to develop energy is immense. Canada has the third largest reserves of oil in the world, and large reserves of natural gas. These large reserves have the potential to contribute greatly to the economic prosperity of ...

10. Pipelines or Policies: What's Behind the Fall in Investor Confidence in Alberta?

    While an analysis of the share prices of firms show that savvy investors have already “priced in” many of the concerns about oil transport and access to outside markets, the Fraser Institute’s annual Global Petroleum Survey shows that investor confidence ...