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Climate And Capitalism: A Match Made In Hell
Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire. Imagine the money bomb waiting to be scooped up rebuilding one of Hawaii’s main tourist towns. Same story in the central valley of California. 2030 wants cattle off the land, so why not burn acres upon acres of feed....
Cowering Before ‘Carbon’
Right now South Dakota is under attack by a freshly born green corporation, Summit Carbon Solutions, funded by China’s Belt and Road initiative, and you, through the Green New Deal provisions buried in the last debt ceiling deal, to pipe “carbon,” from the oil fields...
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Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
Process Over Product – The Failures of Sustainable Land-use Planning in Ontario
For the past 150 years, the province of Ontario has been the primary driver of Canada’s collective wealth. However, since the early 1990's, with the passing of five Acts in quick succession,1 an unacknowledged shift began. Through these and subsequent Acts, Ontario’s...
Who’s really endangered?
As the federal election looms, a hailstorm of criticism is being launched against the Harper government for its failure on environmental issues. Already, the media reports have informed us that we are not protecting our caribou. Canada is an international pariah when...
The Critical Need for Endangered Species Reform
As the federal election looms, a hailstorm of criticism is being launched against the Harper government’s failure on environmental issues. Already the media has informed us that we are not protecting our caribou and that Canada is an international pariah with...
Time to Audit Elizabeth May
This month, Canada’s Green Party leader Elizabeth May published “Who We Are, Reflections on My Life and Canada”. It is an important book, because May is an energetic power broker in Ottawa, the provinces and abroad. Responsible for many powerful...
Surviving Sustainability
Surviving Sustainability is a comprehensive new series of papers of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, and an area of research that is only sporadically treated in public policy analysis. This oversight means that a substantial negative impact on our economic...
Reports of the demise of the Earth grossly exaggerated
At least there are no exploding children. The green movement’s latest unseemly manipulation of kids casts Downtown Abbey’s butler as Santa Claus in a dripping ice bunker, saying he has had to cancel Christmas because the North Pole is melting – please send money. The...
Eco-Fascists – Ontario Case Study – Press Conference
A press conference with Frontier Centre Senior Fellow Elizabeth Nickson, author of Eco-Fascists: How Radical Conservationists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage. Hosted in the Press Gallery at the Ontario Provincial Legislature in Toronto, on the 4th of November...
Global Warming Alarmists Abusing Our Children: The facts don’t support the propaganda environmentalist feeding our children
Environmental alarmists continue to target and abuse our children by perpetuating the drumbeat of doom. No doubt there is more to come. But the scare tactics used in schools need to be eliminated, because the facts don’t support their claims. Rational environmentalists have moved on to discuss how the planet is healing itself from the burst of industrialization.
Carbon Advocates Fiddle the Figures: They can’t even decide by how much B.C’s carbon tax reduced consumption
Carbon people love studies proving that somehow a green economy forced by regulation and public money is going to work. In reality, the results are a financial disaster. Studies are inaccurately pinpointing the impact of green initiatives and fail to account for additional reasons why carbon use was reduced.