Reading Time: 4 minutes The COVID-19 crisis can’t be used as an excuse to kill one of Canada’s largest, best-paying industries, which benefits us all
Author: Mark Milke
Mark Milke, Ph.D., is a public policy analyst, keynote speaker, author, and columnist with six books and dozens of studies published across Canada and internationally in the last two decades. Mark’s work has been published by think tanks in Canada, the United States, and Europe, including the Fraser Institute, the Montreal Economic Institute, American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, and Brussels-based Centre for European Studies.
Energy industry a pipeline to Indigenous prosperity
Reading Time: 4 minutes The link between oil sands development and First Nations prosperity is clear and profound. Project delays can be devastating
We can prosper and still protect the environment
Reading Time: 3 minutes Increasing prosperity allows people once too poor to avoid environmental dead-ends to instead care for the environment
Make Ontario energy affordable again
Reading Time: 3 minutes Premier Doug Ford must fulfil his promise to scrap the cap-and-trade carbon tax
Zapping taxpayers won’t validate green energy
Reading Time: 4 minutes The massively subsidized European power grid is in no way proof that the underlying renewables technology is viable
Unplugged from the reality of our energy needs
Reading Time: 4 minutes The green movement’s fossil-fuel divestment crusade hurts the poor and middle class
A smart road map to lower carbon emissions? Look to Texas
Reading Time: 4 minutes Texas switched from coal to natural gas and dramatically cut carbon emissions. Why doesn’t Canada follow its example?
Ontario’s wrong-headed energy policy burns 75,000 jobs
Reading Time: 3 minutes The province’s manufacturing sector may find itself even less competitive soon due to developments in the United States
Killing the goose that laid the golden egg
Reading Time: 4 minutes Increasingly harsh and ever-shifting resource-related government policies are killing jobs and making Canadians poorer
Trudeau’s small business tax grab will hit Atlantic Canada hard
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa’s plan is confiscatory and destructive for a region where everyone already pays far too much in tax