Dalton McGuinty, Ontario’s most recent former premier, might have in mid-2011 whispered a rueful warning to German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the political wisdom of green energy: “note the world values survey when it comes to paying money to help…
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McGuinty prorogues: a year to the day, and 9.4 MILLION tons of carbon pollution
The Ontario Liberals in the 2011 general election lost their majority position in the provincial legislature. This was because they lost a number of key rural districts into which their green energy policies had forced enormous and enormously inefficient wind…
McGuinty’s unsung carbon achievement: the result of the unsung energy source
Bob Chiarelli, Ontario’s new energy minister, is a rock steady, highly competent high level guy. He is the right man in the right portfolio, especially considering that his government has entered its first major set of rapids, with his revelation…
Climate change, Electricity, Greenhouse gas emissions, Natural gas, Nuclear, Ontario, Political communication, Wind generation
Dalton McGuinty: the clean energy premier who covered up a proud environmental record
Ontario’s premier of nine years has been forced to resign, and that is because he embraced the wrong green policies more publicly than he embraced the right ones. As I have argued many times since beginning this blog, Dalton McGuinty…
Obama and Keystone: is McGuinty playbook out the window?
In late January, the U.S. president halted progress on the Keystone XL pipeline, which will—when it is finally built—bring Alberta syncrude from Oklahoma to the Texas gulf coast. The pipeline currently runs from the Alberta oilsands to Oklahoma. I speculated…