109 different groups who told you the planet was dying because of single-use plastics, just wrote a letter to their friends in the Liberal Government encouraging them to use the current crisis to end oil in Canada. The very oil that is used to make the single-use plastics that have made dramatic progress in the fight against infectious disease. The oil that makes the products that keep our food more hygienic. The oil that makes the products for personal protection gear for front line workers [Read more]
Recycled extremism threatens greater greenhouse gas emissions
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]