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Continuing to spend billions on dams for which the market has effectively disappeared will eventually erode the one undisputed area where Manitoba has some natural strengths – efficient and economical hydro power.
The Selinger government wants the Public Utilities Board rate watchdog to tell it if there’s a better alternative to Manitoba Hydro’s proposed northern Keeyask and Conawapa generating stations.
Investing in Canada’s energy sector is crucial and practical for the country’s economic well-being. While the country has experienced serious setbacks in manufacturing and forestry, Western Canadian service companies are making technological breakthroughs such as coiled tubing rigs and hydraulic fracturing of tight oil and gas reservoirs. However, popular opinion is being tilted by groups in BC against new pipeline capacity.
When the mercury drops and utility bills go higher, the critics of Alberta’s experiment in deregulating power can be counted on to come out of the government-must-run-things closet to criticize Alberta’s private sector power companies.
Power prices are going to get more expensive in Canada because of political interference.
Governor Mitt Romney strongly supports North American energy independence as the foundation of renewed US employment and prosperity. President Obama is waging war on fossil fuels, job creation, and efforts to end our economic recession and reduce dependence on Middle Eastern and Russian oil.
Frontier was delighted to co-sponsor the annual Calgary luncheon of the Friends of
The IPCC has been co-opted by Eco-activist groups
Science which was held yesterday. It featured a presentation by Canadian author Donna LaFramboise who wrote an important book last year that exposes how the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been completely co-opted by eco-activist organizations with very defined agendas. We will post the audio and related powerpoints slides shortly. Here are my introductory remarks to give you a flavour:
To start off, I would like to thank the Friends of Science Society for hosting yet another crucially important climate change event. We at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy are proud of our long standing relationship with the Friends. For those of you who don’t already know, Friends of Science is a non-profit organization run by volunteers dedicated to educating the public about what science really tells us about climate change.
Even though world temperatures have not risen for the past 16 years the global warming lobby continues to bombard us with breathless reports of imminent doom due to mankind’s use of conventional hydrocarbon fuels. They tell us that that our emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas are causing a dangerous increase in our planet’s greenhouse effect. This then is causing the dreaded global warming that, so we are told by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or the IPCC, is leading to a host of frightening phenomena; such things as:
– increasing extreme weather like droughts, heat waves and hurricanes.
– Unprecedented Arctic sea ice melt
– Antarctic icecap growth – that too is a result of human induced global warming, climate alarmists announced last week (go figure . . .).
– the threat of extinction of polar bears due to Arctic warming. Apparently no one has told the bears about this since they stubbornly continue to thrive, with rising numbers threatening native communities.
– The Maldives in the Indian Ocean will also soon vanish from the face of the Earth due to rising sea level, alarmists tell us. The fact that sea levels in the Maldives are lower now than they were in the 1970s doesn’t seem to matter at all.
The meeting between BC Premier Clark and Alberta Premier Redford in Calgary did not resolve the impasse on Northern Gateway pipeline.
BC Premier Christy Clark will be in Alberta next week, looking for money to boost her sagging electoral fortunes.