Ben Eisen and Romy Yourex examine a number of performance measures to assess important trends surrounding the health and vitality of Canada’s natural environment.
Environment
Media Release – Barry Cooper Reviews Bricker and Ibbitson’s The Big Shift: Whither the Laurentian Canadian worldview
Professor Barry Cooper reviews Bricker and Ibbitson’s book The Big Shift and discusses the implications for Canadian identity and over all policy.
Alberta government needs new approach to Keystone XL pipeline lobbying: Government must educate on climate change to ensure Keystone XL pipeline approval
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver is right to label climate activist Dr. James Hansen’s end-of the-world proclamations as nonsense. But Oliver makes a strategic mistake when he actively promotes the hypothesis that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activities are causing dangerous global warming.
Recycling Is Garbage
Believing that there was no more room in landfills, Americans concluded that recycling was their only option. Their intentions were good and their conclusions seemed plausible. Recycling does sometimes makes sense — for some materials in some places at some times. But the simplest and cheapest option is usually to bury garbage in an environmentally safe landfill. And since there’s no shortage of landfill space (the crisis of 1987 was a false alarm), there’s no reason to make recycling a legal or moral imperative. Mandatory recycling programs aren’t good for posterity.
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International Corporate Tax-Rate Fixing Will Bind Canada, Limit Choices and Harm Growth
The finance ministers of over 130 nations and territories have arrived at a tentative agreement that will create a tax floor—a minimum corporate tax rate of a proposed 15 per cent. Its proponents, including Ottawa, sadly, claim it will create a “level playing field”...
Ontario Vaccine Mandate Does not Address Concerns of Human Safety
Starting September 7th, 2021, the Ontario government required all workers in high-risk settings to either take the COVID-19 vaccine, provide a medical reason for refusing vaccination or undergo regular testing and education. This includes workers in healthcare,...
What Does the End of Cheap Oil Mean to our Urban Future?
Why the urban catastrophists are wrong and society will adapt to higher oil prices through technology and natural changes in behaviour.
Breakfast on the Frontier – Environmental Ethics – With Peter Miller
Listen to Peter Miller speak on Environmental Ethics at Breakfast on the Frontier here. (43 minutes)
Alberta to Bury Carbon, and its History
Alberta’s plan to bury carbon emissions based on shaky green ideology is flawed on at least four levels.
Don’t Recycle Bad Ideas
How Regina’s waste management consultation could result in an expensive recycling program that satisfies public opinion but actually wastes more resources than it saves.
Lawrence Solomon
Lawrence Solomon is the author of The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those who are too fearful to do so. He is Energy Probe’s executive director, a columnist with National Post and a past columnist with the Globe and Mail.
Jim Crow Energy Policies
Every one would impose massive, punitive, deceptive, regressive taxes on American businesses and families – through carbon offset taxes, cap-and-trade taxes, carbon sequestration mandate taxes, and intrusive bureaucracy taxes. Every one would further hobble civil rights. Not one would make a noticeable dent in global CO2 levels or temperatures.
Let’s Sell Water To The U.S.A.
Manitoba could net more than $1 billion a year by piping water from northern Manitoba and selling it the United States by diverting just 1% of the renewable fresh water flow into Hudson Bay.
Road To Hell Is Paved With Public Transit
Whether you seek to conserve energy or to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, your public policy decision here appears remarkably obvious. Get people off buses and get them into cars.
Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate
The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) was set up to examine the same climate data used by the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).