Manitoba should not allow an IPCC report to scare our political leaders into alarmist behaviour. Recently, some of Winnipeg’s chattering classes did just that by promoting the preposterous idea that the Pallister government should change zoning rules to prohibit...
A recent Globe and Mail story about a firm developing garbage-to-biodiesel technology shows how continuing progress makes the global warming extremists’ most hysterically apocalyptic predictions, and their extreme absolutist ‘solutions’, not only grossly wrong but...
One of the eternal questions of public policy is: should governments get into bed with private businesses? Whether it is called a Public-Private Partnership, buying a controlling interest for taxpayers, investing in the technologies of tomorrow or just, avoiding a...
There is some good news for mining in Manitoba, but the province needs to reform its mining policies for the sector to thrive. Despite some progress over the years, this province still has a hostile climate for investment and this needs to change. Vale recently...
There’s no doubt that summer 2021 was a scorcher. The United Kingdom’s Met Office revealed how temperatures exceeded 30°C in September for only the seventh time in history. In Vancouver, Canada, 2021 was the second hottest summer ever recorded, with daily average...
Coercion and vandalism have become commonplace tactics to force insurers off mining and oil development projects throughout the world. Ironically, that clears the way for companies with deep pockets and petrostates whose goal is geopolitical supremacy, not...
Have a nice summer with your stay at home vacations.
What happens when a country phases out coal generated electricity and then moves to shut down nuclear electricity generation? The answer is increased costs to consumers and lower income people being unable to afford to purchase electricity. I wonder if Russia will...
In 1980, a newly elected prime minister from Quebec, Pierre Trudeau, decided to mobilize the resource wealth of Western Canada in order to subsidize Eastern Canada. The result was the national energy program (NEP 1), which fixed domestic prices for oil and gas below world levels, levied an export tax to boost federal revenues and confiscated producing assets to give to Petro-Canada.
I would like to start a contest and receive nominations for the worst public policy idea anyone has heard of this century (I say this century to make it somewhat palatable since the 20th century is so full of bad ideas). In any case, regardless of whether the contest...
Federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, like Dalton McGuinty, is fond of blaming Alberta's oil industry for supposedly hurting manufacturing in Central Canada. These numbers StatsCan released today show the opposite: Manufacturing sales increased 1.9% in March to...
As vehicles get more fuel efficient, the old model of using road taxes to pay for road upkeep and construction is breaking down. This article explores how the UK is dealing with the challenge. I can see the day emerging when both road upkeep fees and insurance are...
Frontier Centre Intern Eric Merkley argues that the subsidization of biofuel production has unintended consequences which harm the natural environment.
Someday, the leaders in those countries will realize they have been starving the golden goose.
Any finding of fault should be dealt with through litigation between the insurance company and the energy development company.