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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. Climate change plan another blow to Ontario’s competitiveness and consumers

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record, June 25, 2016 Over the past decade, Ontario’s economy has underperformed compared to the rest of Canada. Misguided policy choices, including tax increases and significant debt growth due to unsustainable spending ...

4. Ontario’s climate change strategy: more taxes, spending and economic micromanagement

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, June 24, 2016 Ontario’s provincial government recently released its Climate Change Action Plan, consisting of nearly 80 different proposals, subsidies and command-and-control regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gas ...

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. Shifting climate policy focus—from mitigation to adaptation

   Over the roughly 20 years I’ve studied climate policy, it’s always seemed to me that the concept of “adaptation” was never given the primacy it deserves in dealing with future climate risks. Back in 1998, When I was a newly minted policy ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. Ontario’s climate action plan undermines case for cap and trade

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, May 18, 2016 Proponents of carbon taxes and cap and trade schemes often defend their position on the grounds that simply attaching a “price” to carbon is the most economically efficient way to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions ...

10. Carbon pricing, plus more regulation, equals bad news for Ontario’s economy

    An economics textbook will tell you that carbon pricing (through a carbon tax or a cap and trade scheme) is the most efficient way to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG). The principle at work is that is less economically damaging to ...