Reading Time: 3 minutes The province pays extraordinary rates to solar, wind and biofuel generators. But the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine
Author: Ken Green
Red tape chasing investors away from Alberta’s energy industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta has become less attractive for investment while the U.S. is drawing more attention, thanks to Trump’s policy changes
Trudeau, Notley said yes to pipelines, while really meaning no
Reading Time: 3 minutes While telling people that they understand the importance of the pipelines, Notley and Trudeau piled up the regulatory bricks to ensure they were not viable
Suzuki falsely accuses Canada of having poor air quality
Reading Time: 3 minutes The environmental activist’s reflexive accusations reveal a poor understanding of the data
B.C. budget abandons any hope for efficient carbon tax
Reading Time: 3 minutes Subsidizing green projects with revenue from carbon taxes may be politically popular but it’s fundamentally misguided policy
Another blow to pipeline projects in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The NEB plans to judge a project on the greenhouse gas emissions of the people who produce the oil, as well as those who eventually consume it
Ontarians pay a high price for power system mess
Reading Time: 3 minutes Years of government mismanagement of the power sector must be corrected or families will continue to suffer
A measured, rational response to climate change is possible
Reading Time: 3 minutes The risks can be managed using conventional policies, engineering, and research and development – and without all the hysteria
Trudeau’s carbon-pricing fixation out of step with Canadians
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s growing evidence Canadians don’t like carbon taxes and are realizing they’re not the efficient and economically benign eco-tax sold by politicians
B.C. government’s pipeline paranoia putting safety at risk
Reading Time: 3 minutes Real world data shows that oil can be moved safely and less expensively by pipeline, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions