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1. Policymakers should drop ‘magical thinking’ and get serious about energy

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, June 26, 2019 Clearly, environmental groups such as the David Suzuki Foundation remain enamoured of renewable energy, telling followers that the “global push for cleaner, healthier energy is on. With costs dropping ...

2. 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 ...

3. Ontario cap-and-trade—high cost, little environmental benefit

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, June 4, 2017 Recently, the Windsor region’s Chamber of Commerce joined other forces across Ontario to demand the province kill its cap-and-trade program due to concerns over the program’s potentially devastating economic ...

4. Premiers pledge to make energy poverty worse in Atlantic Canada

   Appeared in National Newswatch, August 20, 2016 Last week, the premiers of Atlantic Canada met with federal Environment Minister Katherine McKenna to discuss energy planning for the region’s future. Things discussed included the building of a “clean ...

5. 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. ...

6. Governmental report reads like more environmentalist wishful thinking

   Yesterday, a new report from the governmental agency “Policy Horizons Canada” was obtained by the Globe and Mail, and quickly spread across the internet. I discussed the paper yesterday on my every-other-Monday spot in a segment of CBC ...

7. Alberta’s carbon tax—a $10 billion green grab

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, May 28, 2016 If anyone thought that Alberta’s climate action plan was actually about protecting the climate, Bill 20, recently introduced by Alberta’s environment minister, should lay that idea to rest. As the Globe and Mail ...

8. Green energy schemes mainly enrich the better-off

   A recent study from researchers at the University of California at Berkeley puts some hard numbers to a phenomenon that students of environmental policy have long suspected: many “green energy” initiatives are disproportionally pushing ...

9. Notley cheers oilsands while climate panel plans future without it

   Appeared in the Financial Post, August 19, 2015 The government of Alberta has released its Climate Leadership Discussion Document, which is supposed to inform citizens about climate change and prepare them for a public opinion survey on the subject. Every ...

10. Obama’s joint announcement with China on GHG emissions an early Christmas present for environmental activists

    Appeared in the Huffington Post Environmentalists received an early Christmas present on November 12, when President Barack Obama and China’s President Xi Jinping issued a “joint announcement” over the control of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the ...