Canada and the provinces and territories should experiment with market incentive-based approaches towards endangered species protection, such as candidate conservation banking, rather than focus on punitive approaches.
Environment
The right parking system may soon be coming to Calgary
Calgary City Council may be close to adopting an idea that would make parking in Downtown Calgary somewhat easier, reduce parking prices, improve traffic, and reduce tail pipe emissions. Nearly two years ago, Frontier published a backgrounder entitled The price is...
Benny Peiser, Director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation: Europe’s failing green energy model has enriched a green elite while plunging millions into fuel poverty
Europe’s failing green energy model has enriched a green elite while plunging millions into fuel poverty.
Ontario endangered species campaign ignores bias in laws
Some environmentalist organizations are embarking on a campaign to protest changes to Ontario’s endangered species laws, ignoring the anti-property bias of the existing law.
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Strike Before the Crumble
COVID-19 has left a gaping hole in Quebec’s healthcare system. Lack of nursing personnel, testing shortages, overflooding hospitals and postponed surgeries have turned Quebec’s healthcare into complete chaos. "We must invest in the health-care system, which is in the...
Let a Thousand Capital Markets Bloom
Alarm bells ought to be ringing in Canada. Business, industrial and foreign direct investment have performed pitifully over the past decade, with no reason to believe there will be a turnaround any time soon. As noted by Steven Globerman of Western Washington...
Sustaining the Unsustainable
Mahatma Gandhi identified four phases in the transition to the truth. “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” I believe, based on a career educating people about climate change that we are in the third phase. Claims of doom are more extreme as they try to sustain the unsustainable. Al Gore the master of alarmism says, “This year coming up is the most important opportunity the world has ever had to make progress in really solving the climate crisis.”
Why Emissions Law Should Be Scrapped
However, the most powerful argument for repealing the Emissions Trading Act is that it was passed by a reluctant, divided and narrow majority in the dying days of Parliament in a manner that was undemocratic, failed to address the national interest, and in breach of longstanding constitutional conventions.
Environmental Policy That Creates A Freeway of Benefits for Manitobans – Slides
Upgrading the Perimeter Highway to Free-flowing Conditions.
Good Intentions, Green Policies, and the Poor
Escalating fuel costs harm the poor disproportionately, acting as a de facto regressive tax. Thus, American families at the median income level pay 5% of each household dollar for energy costs, and families with lower incomes spend 20% of household funds on energy, while households under the poverty line see fully half of their budget spent on gas, heating, and other fuel costs.
Robbing Peter to Pay David Suzuki
The environment has become the new reason for interventionist government and proponents quite happily admit the same.
A “Power Shift”: Conservative Principles for the Environment
The core principles of energy and environmental policy from a conservative perspective can be summed up in three lines: 1) remove distortions of supply and demand; 2) internalize externalities with user fees; and 3) let the market work.
Province Rethinking Nitrogen Removal
The Doer government wants to take a second look at whether removing nitrogen from Winnipeg’s waste water is worth the huge cost. The move is an about-face for the province, which has steadfastly maintained nitrogen should be removed from waste water along with phosphorus and ammonia. The review comes as many in the scientific community say nitrogen removal is costly and will have little impact on reducing pollution in Lake Winnipeg, where Winnipeg’s waste-water pollution eventually ends up via the Red River.
Radical Environmentalists Part of Economic Meltdown
The saddest comment is that business and industry have the capability to deal with environmental issues in an honest way.
George Gilder, Futurist
Exploring how technology and public policy interface with one of the world’s leading technology gurus.