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  1. Obama's Green Team 2.0

    President Obama's second term choices for Secretary of State, Secretary of the Interior, Administrator of the EPA, and Secretary of Energy carry significant implications for Canada, where the federal and several provincial governments are currently ...

  2. B.C. to Alberta: Stuff your oil

    Appeared in the Huffington Post On the last day of May, the government of British Columbia gave the back of its hand to Alberta and indirectly to the rest of Canada, which benefits—and could benefit more—from continued development of Alberta’s oilsands. ...

  3. Risks to Canada's Energy Security

    According to the first International Index of Energy Security Risk, Canada ranks well in the world, primarily because of its huge resource base and energy self-sufficiency. In fact, Canada's energy security ranking is the 8th best among the world& ...

  4. Canada is a country, not a set of provincial fiefdoms

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Victoria Times Colonist and Winnipeg Free Press When Christy Clark recently asserted British Columbia didn’t need the federal government and also said “we don't need Alberta,” the B.C. premier ...

  5. Not a superpower but Canada on the brink of becoming energy superproducer

    Appeared in the Guelph Mercury, Hamilton Spectator, Stratford Beacon Herald and Winnipeg Free Press In a speech to the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce in London on July 14, 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper referred to Canada as the emerging “energy ...

  6. Green Dream is a Nightmare for La Belle Province

    Appeared in the Huffington Post Quebec’s political leaders seem to have fallen for the Great Green Dream of economic prosperity without energy or natural resource production. It’s a magical vision of a world powered by unicorns and rainbows, where ...

  7. Ontario's Green Energy Act a Bad Bargain for Ontarians

    Appeared in the Financial Post In 2009, under the Premiership of Dalton McGuinty, the Ontario legislature passed the Ontario Green Energy Act (GEA), an Act that aimed to increase Ontario’s use of renewable energy such as wind power, solar power, biofuels, ...

  8. On Green Energy Act, Ontario government still sees no evil

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun Earlier this month the Fraser Institute published a report sharply critical of one of the flagship policies of the Ontario government, namely the Ontario Green Energy Act (GEA). We found that the Act is costing Ontario over $5 ...

  9. Why 40-40 is Foolish-Foolish

    Appeared in the Provost News Carbon taxes are once again dominating the discussion over energy policy in Alberta, where Environment Minister Diana McQueen has proposed a sharp hike to Alberta’s carbon levy. Presently, large emitters in Alberta are ...

  10. Environmental and Economic Consequences of Ontario's Green Energy Act

    This report investigates the effect of the Green Energy Act(GEA) on economic competitiveness in Ontario. It focuses on three questions: (1) Will the GEA materially improve environmental quality in Ontario? (2) Is it a cost-effective plan for accomplishing ...