Individuals are actually better decision-makers than government planners seem to believe.
green energy
By subsidizing wind and solar power, the government undercuts its own policy.
In Atlantic Canada, a stunning 20.6 per cent of households were in energy poverty as of 2013.
Provincial carbon taxes will continue to distort energy markets, raise energy and food prices, and reduce economic competitiveness.
Ontario’s aggressive green-energy/green-tech approach led to soaring power prices for Ontarians.
The new tax scheme will cost a family of four about $338 extra in 2017.
If fossil fuels receive more than $2 billion in annual subsidy, let’s end it. And while we’re at it, let’s end the $800 million to wind producers and other subsidies to green energy.
Green-tech advocates have convinced governments to spend untold billions of dollars on subsidies.
The government of Alberta has released its Climate Leadership Discussion Document, which is supposed to inform citizens about climate change and prepare them for a public opinion survey on the subject.
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 United States and China.