Reading Time: 4 minutes Start learning the deep details of the science and economics instead of letting extremists dictate what you’re allowed to think or say
Author: Ross Mckitrick
Ross R. McKitrick is a Professor of Economics and CBE Fellow in Sustainable Commerce at the University of Guelph where he specializes in environment, energy and climate policy, and a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute. His background in applied statistics has also led him to collaborative work across a wide range of topics in the physical sciences including paleoclimate reconstruction, malaria transmission, surface temperature measurement and climate model evaluation.
Extreme weather debate buries legitimate dissent
Reading Time: 4 minutes Roger Pielke Jr. was subjected to a vicious, well-funded smear campaign for raising legitimate concerns
B.C. mayors shaking down energy companies are ignoring reality
Reading Time: 3 minutes We know what a world without fossil fuels looks like – we used to live in it. It was cold, poor, dark, ignorant, starving and backwards
We’re awash with quality water in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Fraser Institute study evaluated the quantity and quality of Canada’s freshwater and discovered just a few areas of concern
Canada’s climate policy mess is hardly cost-effective
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal government is simply layering a carbon tax on top of a pre-existing and very inefficient mix of regulations
The magic carbon dividend plan is too good to be true
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Clean Prosperity report says Canadian households will be better off with such a plan. Looking at all the evidence suggests otherwise
Canada an environmental leader, not a laggard
Reading Time: 4 minutes Compare Canada’s performance with other countries on measures that matter most to the health of people and the ecosystem
Canada’s phoney debate about carbon taxes
Reading Time: 3 minutes A carbon tax added on top of the various bans, subsidies and tariff we already have in place only worsens regulatory inefficiencies
Is Ottawa really committed to new resource development?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s doubtful. Its plan to “improve” the NEB actually makes it more difficult and costly for business to navigate
Ontario must pull the plug on painful electricity-related policies
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ontario electricity rates for industry are among highest in North America, thanks to a series of bad government policy decisions