Reading Time: 4 minutes The massively subsidized European power grid is in no way proof that the underlying renewables technology is viable
Tag: Environmental extremism
Trudeau fiddles while Canada burns
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada is becoming a balkanized union of mini-fiefdoms at the mercy of Big Environment and narrow provincial interests
China’s foreign garbage ban reveals recycling’s weakness
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recycling seems like a neat solution until we can’t dump our garbage on another country and have to deal with it ourselves
The green agenda comes at a high cost for Canadians
Reading Time: 3 minutes Government green programs impose costs on third parties. Consumers and taxpayers must pay for those policies, and the environment actually suffers
Breaching the fine line between teaching and brainwashing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Being a teacher means making sure your students are exposed to more than one perspective
Fed’s Clean Fuel Standards will kill jobs: Just look at Ontario
Reading Time: 3 minutes The soon to-be-announced clean fuel regulations are just the latest example of politicians catering to climate activists
The flap over tailings pond bird deaths lacks perspective
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s just plain crazy to let ‘I-hate-oilsands’ activists frame our national energy agenda based on an immaterial number of bird deaths
Attacks on hydraulic fracturing in B.C. defy settled science
Reading Time: 3 minutes A public inquiry will simply play into the hands of those who oppose energy production in B.C., depriving the province of significant economic benefits
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
Can’t we just talk politely about climate change?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cheap shots from both sides won’t get us closer to solutions about managing our planet’s future – and the potential impact on billions of lives