Interprovincial collaboration - Counteracting Eight years of opposition to oil and gas It's not easy to consider Canadian energy policy post-Trudeau after a little over eight years of a federal government that enacted policies that were punishing to the oil and...
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A Welcome End to Emission Limits is Possible in 2025
The federal and two provincial governments (Quebec and British Columbia) are preoccupied with climate change. They aim to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, principally carbon dioxide (CO2), to limit future global warming. What if this goal is not only...
Former Alberta Energy Minister Addresses War On Canadian Oil
A former Alberta cabinet minister says Canada must do a better job at promoting its energy sector and win the "war" against it. Sonya Savage, an energy lawyer with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, was Minister of Energy and Mines from 2019 to 2022, then Minister of...
Why Canada Must Double Down on Energy Production
Must we cancel fossil fuels to save the earth? No. James Warren, adjunct professor of environmental sociology at the University of Regina said so in a recent paper for the Johnson Shoyama School of Public Policy, a joint effort by his university and the...
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Guilbeault’s Emissions Obsession: Ten Reasons to Call Time Out on Canada’s CO2 Crusade
Canadian Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault recently announced a plan requiring the oil and gas industry to cut CO2 emissions by more than one-third from 2019 levels by 2030. This deadline might seem far off, but it also stipulates that at least 20 percent...
Leaders on the Frontier – The War That Nobody is Talking About – with Sonya Savage
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Biofuels and Biogas: Niche Alternatives at Best in Anti-Carbon Crusade
Despite the green rhetoric, biofuels and biogas are not the most effective or economic solutions for our energy needs. They remain costly distractions from more viable energy solutions. The Climate Crisis lobby touts biofuels and biogas as effective ways to...
Base Policies on Reality – Not Myths, Models, Misinformation and Fearmongering
Donald Trump and JD Vance have a mandate on energy, economic, immigration and other issues that won them 50% of popular, 58% of electoral and 82% of US county votes. On January 20 they will begin tackling the numerous problems bequeathed by the Biden-Harris...
Winnipeg City Council’s War on Natural Gas Shows the Need to Counter Special Interests
Some members of the Winnipeg City Council are determined to continue their reckless war on natural gas in buildings in Canada’s coldest city. The latest move occurred at City Council when the City’s Standing Policy Committee on Water, Waste and Environment...
Energy Security in a Turbulent World: Canada’s Moment to Lead
Want an example of how upside down the whole world is? Consider these two quotes, retrieved from the web this past weekend, about whatever the hell is going on in Syria: “There are posts on X discussing this event, with some suggesting that Assad might have...
Solar’s Dirty Secret: Expensive and Unfit for the Grid
Solar energy’s promise of a green, abundant future is captivating—but beneath the shiny panels lies a story of unreliability, hidden costs, and grid instability. Green enthusiasts endorse solar energy to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from traditional energy...
Next Week is Going to be Something Else, But the Real Consequential Show to Watch will be Bond Markets
As an abused victim of natural gas markets, I can claim firsthand knowledge of the wild impact of gas market traders. What puts them into Lambos and ski chalets is volatility, and they will, hmm, help along, one could say, the wildest gyrations possible in that...
Trump Won. Let’s Build That Pipeline, Quick!
It was May, 2016, when I had the chance to ask Donald Trump if he would approve the Keystone XL pipeline. On that day in Bismarck, North Dakota, he had just secured enough delegates to become the presumptive Republican candidate for president. I asked if he would...