The environmental activists pushed out a national shock and awe campaign this week to try overwhelm people with a silly assertion that natural gas isn’t as clean as coal. A well publicized report by “The Global Energy Monitor” had Canadian Press, CBC and the Globe and Mail trying to tell Canadians that the world's climate will suffer if natural gas displaces coal. I have to give them credit for recycling at least. This is the third time in the last seven years that environmental … [Read more...]
Column: This is Worse Than the NEP
If history doesn’t so much repeat itself as it rhymes, then Canadian energy in 2015 is a rhyming couplet for energy in 1980. Pierre Trudeau’s 1980 National Energy Policy forced the West to sell its natural resources to the rest of Canada at below market prices. The result was a massive transfer from one part of the country to another; however at least the benefits stayed in Canada and the tax revenue stayed with the Canadian government. Today, both federal and provincial governments are … [Read more...]
