A few years back I had a pleasant chat with a reporter who recently moved to Calgary from Europe where he covered energy issues. In our discussion about renewables, he gave the oft-heard opinion that Europe was, of course, “ahead” of Canada. His eyes widened with admiration for how Europeans were greening their power grid. He soon hopped from his media job to a communications position with the Alberta government to promote green energy. The career change made sense. If one drops objectivity [Read more]
Column: 75,000 high-paying Ontario jobs go poof
Question: How do you kill 75,000 jobs and turn your valuable location into a disadvantage? Answer: If you’re the Ontario government, you do it first, by starting a transition to renewable energy driven by politicians without any cost-benefit analyses. Second, when people with expertise in the energy and power sectors give advice on technical issues, for example—how much duplicate power backup Ontario would need to phase out coal and replace it with intermittent and costlier wind, solar and [Read more]