Reading Time: 3 minutes Increasing prosperity allows people once too poor to avoid environmental dead-ends to instead care for the environment
Tag: Environmental extremism
Psst … want to buy a pipeline?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Pierre Trudeau would be proud. His son, – albeit unwillingly – has achieved a measure of nationalization the old man never could
Ottawa lays another brick in the wall to stop Alberta oil exports
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa ignores the evidence with Bill C-48, which will make it more difficult to ship oil and byproducts to lucrative Asian markets
The next generation of Canadian superheroes
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time to rally around a new group of fictional characters who tackle our nation’s shortcomings with style and commitment
Pipeline drama provides great politics, dubious policy
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is as close as Canadian politics gets to reality TV, with self-interested actors embroiled in conflict against a common enemy
The war on plastics is as dangerous as it is misguided
Reading Time: 6 minutes Earth Day Network’s anti-plastic campaign ignores how integral plastic is to a progressive, safe and healthy world
Vancouver mayor’s pipe dreams and twisted perspectives
Reading Time: 3 minutes Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson’s attacks on Trans Mountain pipeline based on falsehoods and nonsensical enviro-rhetoric
What do environmentalists have against the world’s poor?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pipeline protests only prevent oil and gas products from getting to economies that need them the most
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
Pipeline opposition largely funded by rich Americans
Reading Time: 3 minutes To maintain secrecy, large U.S. environmental foundations simply “purchased” the co-operation of Canadian organizations to stop Alberta oil from reaching international markets