The Northern Gateway, Energy East, and Pacific Northwest LNG Pipeline proposals have been scrapped. Scotiabank estimates that the Canadian economy forfeits $15.6 billion per year as other pipeline proposals await approval. Has this happened because Canadians...
Energy
A Pipeline Only Government Could Screw Up
The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project only superficially appears to have been “saved.” The federal government’s nationalization “solution” was birthed by its earlier botching of energy and environmental regulation and policy. Federal and provincial permit...
Pipeline Drama: Great Politics and Dubious Policy
Canada’s latest political drama has come from the current state of jeopardy of the Trans Mountain pipeline. The B.C. government is asking the courts if it can block the pipeline, creating bipartisan agreement by Alberta politicians for some radical policies. The...
A Lower Standard of Living–The TransMountain NIMBY Effect
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...
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Wealth Taxes Are a Non-New, Pernicious and Invidious Proposal From the Usual Greedy Suspects
Recently, there has been an increasing clamour from some circles for imposing a wealth tax upon Canadians. The usual government-expanding social ‘democratic’ pressure and interest groups are especially enthused by the idea and also claim it is ‘popular’ among the...
What Comes Next after Bitcoin Mainstreaming?
Underneath all the media brouhaha and institutional focus on bitcoin, a struggle is brewing in the crypto world: which altcoin will pick up the baton? A fierce competition is underway for the podium, with Ethereum having a clear first-mover advantage. Bitcoin, as...
Ian Plimer, Author of Heaven and Earth
Ian Plimer, Ph.D. has written four best selling books, the latest of which is Heaven and Earth: Global Warming – The Missing Science. Dr. Plimer was a speaker at the Heartland Institute’s 4th International Climate Change Conference held in Chicago May 16-18th, 2010.
Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 Astronaut and Geologist
Dr. Schmitt, the last person to walk on the moon, was a speaker at the Heartland Institute’s 4th International Climate Change Conference held in Chicago May 16- 18th, 2010. The Frontier Centre was one of 64 international co-sponsors of this event which profiled the work of 73 scientists, economists and policy experts from 23 countries.
Gabriel Alvarez, Associate Professor of Economics, King Juan Carlos University, Spain
Dr. Alvarez was a speaker at the Heartland Institute’s 4th International Climate Change Conference held in Chicago May 16- 18th, 2010. The Frontier Centre was one of 64 international co-sponsors of this event which profiled the work of 73 scientists, economists and...
Environmental Policy And The Law Of Unintended Consequences: Eight case studies from around the world
Well-meaning efforts by governments to protect the environment can backfire, resulting in severe harm to human beings and, in some instances, to the natural environment regulators sought to protect.
Opportunism and Exploitation: Climate Change Activism and Hostility to Liberal Civilization: An analysis of selected green rhetoric
Ben Eisen analyzes the intellectual roots of climate change alarmism, and concludes that radical environmentalism is best viewed as part of a broader, centuries old critique of liberal civilization.
Oil Sands and Ethical Oil
Listen to Ezra Levant on Oil Sands Industry here. (25 minutes)
Transforming Manitoba: Easy federal transfers have made Manitoba Western Canada’s Outsider
Manitoba’s old style public sector model has placed the province firmly outside of western Canada’s mainstream.
America’s Power System Is Powerless
“America is a beacon of capitalism, so it can be jarring to discover one of its largest industries is a redoubt of socialism. State governments have been running the electricity business, currently a $330-billion-a-year industry, since Theodore Roosevelt pounded his White House bully pulpit.”
Coal’s Detractors Ignore Hard Facts
Many of those welcoming an enforced ending of the fossil-fuels era parrot the cliche, “The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones”. But steel survived the end of the Iron Age and copper the end of the Bronze Age, and we have not stopped using stone. Nor were these eras ended by targeted taxation measures.