Lately, the Climate Change Apocalypse lobby has gone into overdrive in their efforts to browbeat reluctant consumers, businesses and governments to wholly eliminate fossil fuels and commit to putting all future energy investment into renewable energy. That did not...
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Etam: The Federal Climate Plan – Far Out of Touch with the World, with First Nations, with its Regions, and the Feds Just Don’t Care
People have been asking for thoughts on the recently announced federal climate plan. I shrug. I ask them what their thoughts are on the Iowa State Fair Hog Calling Regulations. I am indifferent. I know I should care, but what’s the point? The feds throw something at...
Manitoba’s PC Government Half Billion Annual Hydro Heist
Before a NDP government and it’s politically appointed Manitoba Hydro board faded out after the Pallister Conservatives won in 2016, it was generally accepted by all political parties, and the media, that Hydro’s then ultra-low electricity rates were “Manitoba’s...
A Ten Point Action Plan – Canada Oil Industry Response to War in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is now a month old. It is not over, nor does it show serious signs of ending anytime soon, despite attempts at peace talks. We, as a nation, have had a month to determine our response. Even if the shooting stops, Russia’s oil and gas exports must be...
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Raw-Milk Prohibition Reveals Policy Backwardness
Prohibitionists Dig In Heels for Supply Management, Ignore U.S. Success There is a legal way to consume raw milk in Canada: buy it in the United States and bring it home. Of the 13 states bordering Canada, 12 have legal raw milk. More than 40 have it legal in some...
The Pawlowski Decision
In the Alberta Health Services v. Artur Pawlowski and Dawid Pawlowski decision last September, a Court of Queen’s Bench justice found the two brothers in contempt of court. The Pawlowski brothers openly challenged health ordinances and court orders and did not deny...
The North American Gusher: We’re just beginning to tap the continent’s vast hydrocarbon resources
President Obama has promised to get the anemic U.S. economy going again by boosting exports. Besides the export of billions of freshly printed U.S. dollars from the Federal Reserve, it is not clear exactly what the president has in mind.
Another Friday Night Special
In a not surprising move, the federal government announced late Friday that it was approving the CNOOC and Petronas take overs.
Let’s Get Fracking, and Slash Our Gas Bills: State backing for the shale revolution is what Britain’s economy has been crying out for
Yet still the environmental movement, deep in bed with the subsidised renewable energy industry, wants to impede shale gas, fearful that it might succeed. Until recently it looked as if the Government’s energy policy was to go beyond picking winners to pick losers – how else do you describe an policy that hands out the most money to the most expensive ways of generating power? – and even ban winners
Yet more problems with Anderegg et al “denier black list” paper
In “Climate scientists’ “consensus” based on a myth” I described how one of the sources of the idea that 97% of climate experts agree there is a human-induced climate crisis—“Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change” by Doran and Zimmerman—was not a...
Sasol to convert natural gas to meet demand for diesel
South Africa’s Sasol Ltd. is looking to build a multibillion-dollar plant to convert natural gas into diesel, adding another demand driver for a commodity that is taking an increasingly prominent role in the North American energy market.
Canada to Build Oil Pipeline to Serve Asia: ‘The U.S. market will not be large enough to accommodate all of Canada’s oil exports,’ said Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver.
Canada is scrambling to build an expansive new oil pipeline network to reach new markets including Asia as its sole customer, the United States, hikes production, aiming to become the world’s top exporter.
U.S. Greens Shut Down Canadian Oil
Heads up, Canada! Our one and only big energy customer, the United States, isn’t going to need Canadian oil any more. That’s the implication of the International Energy Agency’s latest predictions. The U.S. will be the world’s largest oil producer by 2020 and the largest oil exporter by 2030. Some say this could happen a lot sooner.
New York Times’ Krugman off-base on GOP’s climate stance
Paul Krugman tells us in his Nov 22 OpEd “Gand Old Planet” that the Republican Party denies science, or, in Krugman’s words, they use the approach:
“If evidence seems to contradict faith, suppress the evidence.”
But one of the primary examples he uses to bolster his stance is so childish as to be laughable. Indeed, it demonstrates that Krugman, a professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University, is totally out of his depth commenting about the state of modern climate science.
Globe and Mail columnist misguided on climate and energy
Globe and Mail columnist Jeffery Simpson should not so easily accept official dogma on climate change and energy. He also needs to seriously investigate the popular though misguided belief that fossil fuel companies receive government subsidies.