Part of the original pitch for an Environmental, Social and Environmental, ‘ESG’, investment strategy – i.e., putting your money into a basket of socially aware green, diversity and pseudo-woke social justice friendly investments - is that it would benefit the world...
Here in the weird West, where we set aside our vast wealth, bountiful resources, technological prowess, best-in-history medical/safety establishments, and other assorted existential victories to get into fistfights about whether more racism will eliminate racism and...
‘The only healthy endgame for ESG is another acronym: RIP. And it will not be a moment too soon.’ Do not get Dorian Deome started on the bureaucrats investing his life savings in this trendy, new fangled thing they call environmental, social, governance, or...
“Steer clear of the charlatans and the toxic. You become who you know.” – Mindset of Stoics via Twitter Ever finished a home project, like making a table from scratch, and maybe it’s kind of gimpy and imperfect, but nevertheless you stand back with a sense of...
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The war against the invisible enemy of COVID-19 has unfortunately made normal rights and freedoms invisible as well. Another example manifested on September 13 when Saskatchewan’s premier renewed emergency orders for his province. The list of powers he claimed were so...
Canada’s standard of living is suffering because of the seemingly perpetual pipeline controversy and especially because of the delays. No, it is not merely the delay in construction that is causing problems, but it is also delays in expanding our oil exports to the...
There are two visions of engaging with First Nations on mining projects in Manitoba. The first will likely lead to considerable opposition and increased delays. The second focuses on meaningful consultation with Indigenous groups and is destined to move development...
The last few years have not been good for pipeline projects in Canada. The much-delayed Keystone XL pipeline continues to be plagued by delays, TransCanada made big news by axing the Energy East pipeline. Now, Kinder Morgan has cut spending on the critical Trans...
The meek will inherit the earth…if that’s okay with everybody else,” says the old joke. When it comes to developing Canada’s energy sector, that trite joke seems all-too-true. The Northern Gateway, Energy East, and Pacific Northwest LNG Pipeline proposals have been...
Unnecessary and populist-driven moratoriums on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) are denying “have not” provinces much needed jobs and revenue. Inadvertently, these moratoriums are also denying over-taxed citizens opportunities to relieve their tax burden. British...
While not literally ‘pie in the sky’, asteroid mining used to be science fiction. Perhaps, it is no longer fantasy. Various private space companies have focused on launching satellites, with hazy side-bets on future colonization ventures. However, recent...
Ingenuity and efficiency are reducing links between economic growth and energy consumption In recent years, particularly in Canada, we have seen substantial a change in public opinion regarding the production and distribution of energy, as well as its associated costs...
Far from being a threat, coal continues to bring health, welfare and prosperity to billions At the recent Environmental Protection Agency public hearing in Charleston, West Virginia, on withdrawing the “Clean Power Plan,” anti-coal activists were out in force: the...
Day 24 - Advent is the season of preparing for Christmas. Here at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy we want to tell you about some of the things we would like to see under our tree. On Day 24 we wish for an end to Canada’s quixotic quest to change the...