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1. Economic Consequences of a Lower Canadian Dollar

   After hovering around parity with the US dollar for three years, Canada?s exchange rate fell sharply in 2013, ending the year near 90 cents (US). Initially, the lower dollar was greeted with relief, especially for our manufacturing exporters. But as the ...

2. Proposed Kitimat oil refinery just another barrier to oil sands development

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province BC Green party MLA Andrew Weaver has (grudgingly) endorsed the idea of building a $25 billion refinery in British Columbia to convert Alberta's bitumen into gasoline, diesel fuel, and aviation fuel, allowing the ...

3. Pipeline construction would boost government revenues

   Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, Kelowna Daily Courier, Vernon Daily Courier Discussions surrounding the need for new pipelines to transport Canada's oil to market have been a dominant economic, environmental, and political issue for ...

4. Obama's message to Canada: We don't want your oil

   Appeared in the Huffington Post Once again, energy policy was an element of President Obama's State of the Union Address (2014). What's interesting is both what's seen, and what is not seen. Here, in the quotes related to energy, is what& ...

5. 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 ...

6. Canada's Catch-22: The State of Canada-US Relations in 2014

   Economic and political relations between Canada and the United States, our most important foreign relationship, have worsened since the Fraser Institute's previous report on the state of Canada-US relations, Skating on Thin Ice (Moens, 2010). ...

7. New Brunswick derailment highlights rail vs pipeline tradeoffs

     Yet another train derailment involving petroleum products has re-invigorated the debate over how we transport oil in Canada. In this case, 17 cars on a train near Plaster Rock, New Brunswick, derailed; nine of which carried dangerous goods including ...

8. A Northern Gateway to conflict

   Appeared in the Huffington Post, Guelph Mercury and Waterloo Region Record The National Energy Board (NEB) released its report on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline proposal December 19, finding that plans for building the pipeline are sufficient for ...

9. Jaccard J’accuse

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, Guelph Mercury, Kelowna Daily Courier and Vernon Daily Courier Back in April of 2013, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair went down to Washington to rubbish Canada's environmental reputation before its greatest trading partner. ...

10. Energy projects offer First Nations road out of poverty

    Appeared in Waterloo Region Record The recent protests in New Brunswick against proposed hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has put a spotlight on the Elsipogtog (Elsi-book-took) First Nation, which has been extremely vocal in its opposition to proposed ...