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1. Ottawa’s Clean Fuel Standard—overkill in your tank

   Appeared in the Financial Post, November 18, 2020 How clean is your bathroom? It could be cleaner, couldn’t it? Even if you think it’s very clean, a team of microbiologists with microscopes and laboratory probes could probably find a lot of nasty stuff. ...

2. 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 ...

3. Policymakers must ditch their fashionable green recovery plans

   Appeared in the Financial Post, August 19, 2020 There’s a curious idea floating around that the COVID crisis undid the principles of economics. Nobody puts it exactly like that, but it’s implied in the various proposals for restructuring the post-pandemic ...

4. IPCC uses worst-case scenario to exaggerate emission forecasts

   Since the 1980s, ranges of projection were systematically too high. ...

5. Canada can manage the risks of reopening while pursuing growth and prosperity

   The potential climatic warming effect of carbon dioxide was understood by the late-1800s. ...

6. Plastic bans won’t help the oceans during pandemics or during the best of times

   Appeared in the National Post, April 7, 2020 When I speak or teach on environmental policy, one question often comes up. What to do about all the plastic waste, and why don’t we just ban it all? Until a month ago, my answer would have seemed abstract and ...

7. 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 ...

8. Time to fight the climate extremists who seek to burn things down

   Appeared in the Sudbury Star, February 10, 2020 Last year—2019—was the year the climate issue took a sharp turn towards extremism. Let’s hope 2020 is the year sanity makes a comeback. There have long been three groups occupying the climate issue. To avoid ...

9. Canada’s carbon tax hampers key industries, may spur ‘carbon leakage’

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, August 22, 2019 With Canada’s carbon tax set to reach $50 per tonne in 2022, many Canadian industries are bracing for potential cost increases. Not only will they pay the tax on their own emissions, but they’ll pay higher ...

10. The Impact of the Federal Carbon Tax on the Competitiveness of Canadian Industries

    With Canada’s federal carbon tax set to reach $50 per tonne in 2022 it is often argued that Canadian businesses will become less competitive as a result of higher energy costs. For this reason, firms may relocate to countries where climate-change policies ...