During the recent French and English language debates for the Conservative leadership, one of the two candidates accused the other of wanting to impose an oil pipeline on Quebec without its consent. In this case, the Conservative MP for Durham was accused – after he...
Recently, many climate change activists and their sympathizers have been cheered by the dramatic drop in oil prices that coincided with, and were partly caused by, the COVID-19 pandemic. Prominent among them is the outgoing leader of the federal Green Party of Canada....
Something happened this week that likely nobody predicted – or could even have conceived of predicting. The near-term futures contract for April West Texas Intermediate crude oil, the benchmark for North American prices, which expired on that very day, went negative,...
As predicted weeks ago, Albertans did not need to hold their breath for Ottawa’s approval of the Frontier oil sands mine. Reports of massive opposition within the Liberal Party caucus and rumours of an appeasing “economic aid” package for the province were strong...
The recent unhappy news that Canadian taxpayers will soon be at least partially bailing out the government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the owners of Nalcor, which is completing the massively over-budget and behind-schedule Muskrat Falls power plant, may be the least...
When Artur Pawlowski came to Canada in 1995, he did not think it would turn out as it has. The pastor of Calgary’s Street Church, famous for his confrontations with police, says Canada looks too much like the Communist Poland he grew up in. “I grew up seeing police...
Gerald Flood took a road trip and his commentary is worth a read
We call this energy capture system, “photosynthesis”, and this battery, “fossil fuels”.
It is time to pause and re-think the model for northern dam construction.
Errol Black Black, a long time NDP supporter is suggesting that Manitoba Hydro should be able to bypass regulatory safeguards and invest in the risky construction of new dams that may or may not be paid through exports to the south.
I have a question for Error Black. If this was a private sector company that was proposing to invest billion in a speculative venture on a one-way bet that their losses could be recovered from Manitoba rate payers or tax payers, would he still be suggesting that the PUB should roll over?
Let the market forces rule.
Union activists are leading a charge to scare voters over a potential privatization of Manitoba Hydro, but this won’t likely happen as political and policy elites in Manitoba are dominated by ‘Small Manitoba’ thinking that resists any policy movement on this file.
If “carbon taxes” are on the table, then what about “national security” taxes?
It is time to place a firewall around the export business unit of Manitoba Hydro to protect rate payers and tax payers of Manitoba.
Much of the free time we have come to enjoy that has made us more productive is largely the result of the availability of utilities and the infrastructure which brings them to us.