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1. New Brunswick ignores neighbour’s energy success

   Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant, seems poised to follow through on a campaign promise to institute a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing. News reports suggest he’ll implement that moratorium before ...

2. New Brunswick ignores energy success up north and in Pennsylvania

     In the recent New Brunswick election, an unremarkable engineering activity apparently took front and centre: hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, popularly known as fracking. The outgoing premier, David Alward, was clearly in favour of fracking. He ...

3. Not your grandmother's civil disobedience

   Appeared in the Huffington Post Activists in British Columbia have responded to the National Energy Board's approval of the Northern Gateway oil pipeline with threats of illegal activism reminiscent of the 1990s. Greenpeace spokesman Mike Hudema, for ...

4. Rescue Canada's poorest provincial economies: Allow fracking

   Appeared in the National Post The recent native protests in New Brunswick against proposed hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') are not only devoid of facts but harm the potential for prosperity and lower personal taxes. Add in the anti-fracking ...

5. Fraser Forum- May/June 2013: Value for money in health care: Varying performances across Canada

   In this issue: Balanced budget in BC comes with short- and long-term pain by Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, and Milagros Palacios BC Liberals have put an emphasis on balancing the budget over the next year. BC’s Prosperity Fund: A good idea if designed ...