Reading Time: 3 minutes A carbon tax used to subsidize alternate energy sources will accelerate the transition away from fossil fuel dependence
Category: Environment
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
Driving the next wave of clean resource innovation
Reading Time: 3 minutes If Ottawa is serious about clean energy, the bureaucrats and politicians pulling the levers would do well to learn about CRIN and its potential
B.C. Greens should support Site C dam, for all British Columbians
Reading Time: 3 minutes Aboriginal rights are extremely important but, like any Charter right, they’re not absolute. They must be balanced against other competing critical interests
Why Trudeau and Notley are right to support pipeline expansion
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need the Trans Mountain project in order to protect the environment, keep costs in control, ensure the safety of workers and bolster the nation’s economy
Building a clean, green and smart Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s polytechnic institutions are developing the talent to drive the nation’s dramatic next-generation infrastructure expansion program
Civil law under attack from new and powerful enemy
Reading Time: 4 minutes The disproportionate impact of activists through social media could swamp legally-held rights and trample on centuries of legal history
Sinking the myth of dangerous West Coast oil tanker traffic
Reading Time: 4 minutes As a change in government looms in British Columbia puts the Kinder Morgan expansion project in jeopardy, we need to realize just how safe oil tankers are
Staking out the moral high ground in the energy debate
Reading Time: 3 minutes Othering can help understand energy discourse in Canada – and its tension and polarization – in a sector where natural sciences sensibilities ought to prevail