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  1. How the Ford government could reduce home hydro bills by 24 per cent

    Appeared in the Financial Post, October 4, 2018 Seemingly, the Ford government wants to repair Ontario’s electricity market. It recently moved to scrap the Green Energy Act and reportedly plans to eliminate or alter the so-called Fair Hydro Plan. While ...

  2. Electricity Reform in Ontario: Getting Power Prices Down

    Ontario’s implementation of the Green Energy Act (GEA) has resulted in high electricity costs across the province. The centerpiece of the act includes a schedule of subsidized electricity purchase contracts called Feed-in-Tariffs (FITs), that provide long ...

  3. Canada is an environmental leader, not a laggard

    Appeared in the National Post, April 20, 2018 Canadians have much to celebrate this Earth Day. According to a new study, despite misguided claims to the contrary, Canada has an excellent environmental record when compared to most of the world’s wealthiest ...

  4. Environmental Ranking for Canada and the OECD

    Canadians care about the state of their environment. Over the past few years, several reports have presented Canada as an environmental laggard, ranking it near the bottom of the list of OECD countries. But we regard the methodologies behind these studies ...

  5. Understanding the Changes in Ontario's Electricity Markets and Their Effects

    Energy consumption is a driver of economic growth. Policymakers in Ontario have made poor policy decisions, resulting in rising electricity costs, lower employment, and lower competitiveness, while achieving minimal environmental benefits. This ...

  6. What Doug Ford brings to the national climate policy debate

    Appeared in the National Post, March 28, 2018 Doug Ford’s victory in the Ontario PC leadership race changes the national climate policy picture in a significant way. Not because he opposes carbon taxes—many other federal and provincial politicians do as ...

  7. Canada’s phony debate about carbon taxes

    Appeared in Maclean's, February 23, 2018 In the Ontario PC leadership race, all four candidates hoping to replace Patrick Brown as leader oppose carbon taxes, a centrepiece of Brown’s Tory platform. The federal Conservative Party also opposes carbon ...

  8. New plan to ‘approve' pipelines designed to intensify pipeline wars

    Appeared in the Financial Post, February 13, 2018 The Trudeau government has announced its plan to “improve” the National Energy Board. The language of the announcement is all “sunny ways,” promising to be all things to all stakeholders. The new approval ...

  9. Ontario’s manufacturing sector falling behind other provinces, U.S. states

    The manufacturing sector in Ontario, as in other industrialized economies, has faced many challenges over the past few decades as a result of rising competition from emerging markets. There has been a dramatic global shift in production ...

  10. Ontario electricity rates for industry among highest in North America

    Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record, November 9, 2017 Ontario manufacturers are feeling the pinch from high electricity prices. But how high are the province’s industrial electricity rates relative to other jurisdictions? Before we answer that question ...