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Who Could Object to a Carbon Tax?
Appeared in The Province, Huffington Post, and Okanagan Saturday, Dec 5, 2014 Carbon taxes are back on centre stage in Canada, after a new “bipartisan” Ecofiscal Commission came out in favour of the idea. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is also talking ...
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Obama’s joint announcement with China on GHG emissions an early Christmas present for environmental activists
Appeared in the Huffington Post Environmentalists received an early Christmas present on November 12, when President Barack Obama and China’s President Xi Jinping issued a “joint announcement” over the control of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the ...
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Climate Change: It’s Not the Science, It’s the Policy
Appeared in VancouverSun.com The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest “Synthesis Report” drawing together the findings of the most recent three-volume set of the Fifth Assessment Report. The Assessment Report is ...
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New Brunswick ignores energy success up north and in Pennsylvania
In the recent New Brunswick election, an unremarkable engineering activity apparently took front and centre: hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, popularly known as fracking. The outgoing premier, David Alward, was clearly in favour of fracking. He ...
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Not-so-dedicated funds
Appeared in the Orange County Register When pitching new programs, politicians love their 'dedicated' funds: highway trust funds, housing trust funds, environmental protection funds, wildlife-protection funds, and so on. Most recently, under AB ...
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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 Albertas carbon levy. Presently, large emitters in Alberta are ...
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NDP leader's overheated rhetoric distorts Canada's environmental record
Appeared in Charlottetown Guardian and stockwatch.ca Thomas Mulcair, federal NDP leader and Leader of the Opposition, has recently been berating Canadas environmental performance as he travels in the United States: In the U.S. people know how to read, ...
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Does the EU value emissions over human rights?
Appeared in European Voice The European Commission was wrongheaded when, in October, it singled out oil extracted from Canada's tar sands' by proposing a higher carbon-emissions value for it than for other sources of fossil fuel. Given that ...
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Understanding Climate Change
Global warming, climate change, and greenhouse gas emissions have received extensive media coverage in the past few years. Governments and the public are grappling with calls to do something. Some world leaders and prominent writers even say the future of ...
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Independent Summary for Policymakers
The Independent for Policymakers is a detailed and thorough overview of the state of climate change science as laid out in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) draft report. This independent summary has been reviewed by more ...