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  1. Premier Notley has a warped view of economic recovery in Alberta

    Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, October 17, 2018 In August, Premier Rachel Notley tweeted enthusiastically about Alberta’s economic recovery: “As things continue to look up, we have another sign more Albertans are beginning to feel the recovery. This summer ...

  2. The IPCC warns of dire consequences (again)

    Once again, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a report which asserts that if the Earth’s climate warms beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius, well, the consequences will be dire. And at two degrees the impacts will ...

  3. Stranded assets? Only if government strands them

    For years now, ever since Peak Oil Theory  (the idea that the world would soon run out of economically viable oil reserves) was utterly shattered by the oil and gas boom in the United States, we’ve heard, “it doesn’t matter anyway, and ...

  4. Green handwringing over new North American trade pact

    Environmentalists are wringing their hands over the new he United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), in part because the Trudeau government did not get what it wanted for environmental protections. Early in the process, Foreign ...

  5. Notley right to push back on environmental assessment reform

    Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, October 10, 2018 A piece of proposed federal legislation known as Bill C-69, the Impact Assessment Act, which would restructure the environmental assessment process for energy projects in Canada, sits in second reading in the ...

  6. Tax hikes squeezing various elements of Alberta society

    Appeared in the Calgary Sun, October 3, 2018 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently came out to the heartland to deliver yet another sermon/threat about the federal carbon tax. Speaking at Saskatchewan Polytechnic, he defended his government’s actions on ...

  7. The Trans Mountain pipeline—it’s Groundhog Day, in September

    Appeared in the Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal, September 29, 2018 On Groundhog Day on February 2, Punxsutawney Phil in the United States and Wiarton Willie here in Canada ceremonially emerge from their dens, and if they sees their shadows (meaning it is a ...

  8. Trudeau and Notley fiddle while Alberta’s oil sector burns

    Appeared in the Calgary Sun, September 26, 2018 It’s been a brutal few weeks for the oil sector. First, the Federal Court of Appeal “ quashed ” Ottawa’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline, on the finely nuanced reasoning that the federal government ...

  9. Alberta needs less words, more deeds from Premier Notley

    Appeared in the Calgary Sun, September 19, 2018 Premier Rachel Notley is still angry. Very angry. The recent Court of Appeals decision to “quash” the regulatory approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project angered Premier Notley so much that ...

  10. Ontario should kill and bury electric car subsidies

    Appeared in the Toronto Star, September 16, 2018 Many people mistakenly believe that electric vehicles, including Tesla models, run on electricity. That’s partly true—power stored in the batteries makes the wheels go round. But while electricity (in part) ...