Reading Time: 3 minutes Carbon taxes should replace, not add to, existing environmental regulations and subsidies
Category: Environment
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
Environment-friendly “plyscrapers” blocked by red tape
Reading Time: 3 minutes The USDA estimates every four storeys would save the same amount of carbon emissions as created by 500 cars every year
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
Houston, we have a problem
Reading Time: 4 minutes While scientists are cautious about attributing any particular weather event to global warming, the trend is ominous, particularly as sea levels rise
The search for Trans Mountain’s 15,000 construction jobs
Reading Time: 4 minutes Why would elected officials promote a construction jobs figure six times Kinder Morgan’s actual number?
Uber, open skies, free markets mean better energy efficiency
Reading Time: 3 minutes Open markets and free trade help consumers economize on energy consumption while reducing CO2 emissions
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
B.C.’s Sunshine Coast gets a taste of the raging wildfires
Reading Time: 4 minutes 70 years of Smokey the Bear and aggressive wildfire suppression efforts filled the forests with a tinder load just waiting to blow
Barring the gates is no long-term solution for our parks
Reading Time: 3 minutes The popularity of Canada’s parks and protected areas is creating problems that will require more than simply banning people to solve