It was May, 2016, when I had the chance to ask Donald Trump if he would approve the Keystone XL pipeline. On that day in Bismarck, North Dakota, he had just secured enough delegates to become the presumptive Republican candidate for president. I asked if he would...
It is encouraging to see that Premier Wab Kinew’s new energy policy acknowledges the reality of hydrocarbon fuels: Manitoba will continue to have oil and natural gas in its energy mix for the foreseeable future. Manitoba should not be in any hurry to wean itself off...
Fall harvest is in the storehouse. Now, let’s put away all proposals to cap fertilizer inputs to save the earth. Canadian farmers are ensuring food security, not fueling the droughts, fires, or storms that critics unfairly attribute to them. The Saskatoon-based Global...
Summer was pretty quiet, thankfully, but time for a jolt to get reengaged. There’s no better way than getting yelled at, so today let’s talk about a surefire recipe – Electric Vehicles. Those that love EVs really love ‘em, and to speak ill of them in front of the fans...
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
A Google Earth satellite video is making the rounds on twitter. It shows the moment an arc of fires began in northern Quebec, the smoke rising. It looks like people calculated the prevailing winds so that the smoke would blow south. Then connected via sat phone, they...
It’s that time of year for breathless reports about planetary heating. Multilateral institutions, including the United Nations, recently made worldwide headlines, proclaiming 2023 as the hottest year in history. The increase in average temperature, versus the...
The Endangered Species Act is the most powerful law outside the cities, and it based on lies. This week and next I am running three to five minute reads that pick apart the reason for the failing economy for the bottom 70%. As Dr. Peter St. Onge says, the bottom 9...
Everything will be monetized and measured and traded, even you. Up next on Wall Street's exploitation list. If not stopped, on November 17th, the U.S. government will pass a rule that allows for America’s protected lands, including parks and wildlife refuges, to be...
Whitney Webb is not like me, sending out essays on the regular, but when she does, just wow. Working off the attempt by Wall Street to financialize America’s national parks and conserved areas, and living in Chile as she does, she found something and holy pigeon-toed...
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A strange thing happened the other day. A large-scale solar panel farm in Fort Bend County, Texas, thousands of acres right in the middle of oil country, experienced a rough hailstorm. That’s not entirely unusual for the region. I grew up in Texas, and it was always...
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The dangerous rise in eco-extremism in Canada is fueled by identity politics and exaggerated climate anxieties