Today’s all-out assault by the combined forces of Canada’s powerful environmental movement on the so-called dirty oil of the oil sands has its precursor in recent history. The present environmental movement cut its teeth with its incursion into Canadian forestry, once...
A recent report issued by the Fraser Institute makes it clear that transporting oil by pipelines is far safer than by railcars. One need look no further than the tragic deaths and destruction in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and the fiery derailment of a train carrying...
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For the past 150 years, the province of Ontario has been the primary driver of Canada’s collective wealth. However, since the early 1990's, with the passing of five Acts in quick succession,1 an unacknowledged shift began. Through these and subsequent Acts, Ontario’s...
The hasty, defeatist and craven withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August has compelled the so-called “civilized” Western nations and their leaders to confront the failures and errors of the past 20 years, which resemble those of earlier conflicts....
Travel and work over the past two years have brought me to many different jurisdictions. What continues to strike me is the way the responses to COVID-19 have been varied, arbitrary and often draconian. I look back at Canada and see raging debates over mask mandates,...
Last year, the BBC broadcast a documentary that takes the listener into the green watermelon mindset. A printed transcript is also available.
I find the topic is enlightening for how it illuminates underlying values within the green movement. The discussion also helps one to understand why facts and rational discussion a futile tactics when dealing with a true believer.
In five polls of Oregonians and one national survey, they find 74 to 80 percent of respondents “support reducing consumption and believe doing so would improve societal and individual well-being.” Markowitz and Bowerman interpret their poll results as challenging “conventional wisdom about our collective and never-ending need for consumption of material goods.”
It’s okay to say markets are imperfect, so long as you acknowledge that government interventions are too.
Plastic options are “almost 200 times less damaging to the climate than cotton hold-alls favoured by environmentalists and have less than one third of the CO2 emissions than paper bags.”
Harry has a good post on the impact of environmental regulations on small farms.
While it is honourable and virtuous to call for that help, it also behooves governments to think with their heads instead of their hearts when it comes to designing, devleoping, and implementing these regulations that have no thought of tomorrow and how farmers will pay for the added costs.
The right combo of gadget and pricing plan helped people cut peak household energy use up to 57 percent. Grist
I wonder if the CRTC and the incumbent ISP’s who are pursuing UBB practices will consider this evolution towards time-of-use smart metering and rates?
The worst example of this may have been the heavy subsidization of biofuels, which led to the destruction of huge swaths of rainforests around the world as people cleared the land in an effort to cash in on a government created biofuel bubble.
Those light-emitting diodes marketed as safe, environmentally preferable alternatives to traditional lightbulbs actually contain lead, arsenic and a dozen other potentially hazardous substances, according to newly published research.
Tom Harris reviews the current state of research in the field of climate science. He finds that there is no consensus in the area, and that many qualified experts dispute predictions of an impending climate crisis.