Oh the ironies. The Canadian Federal Court ruling on the Trans Mountain pipeline Thursday last week is brimming with them. The current federal government won the election of 2015 in part because of its resounding promise of a major departure…
Climate politics and carbon proprioception in Alberta: after the peace, a phony war?
It’s allegedly war, allegedly again, in the Alberta climate change policymaking debate. The (alleged) belligerents: the NDP government and oil industry on one side, the environmental lobby on the other. A recent article has the provincial NDP government and oil…
The “official” case for carbon pricing: weak and wanting
Ontario has swung hard away from conventional environmental thinking. The incoming government, elected June 7, has signalled it is taking Ontario out of the cap and trade system its soon-to-be-predecessor took us into, and has cancelled a slew of similarly…
The politics of green energy: Ontario, 2018
“Green energy is a scam.” So said Doug Ford, many times, en route to winning a massive majority government in Ontario on June 7. That statement, the sheer veracity of the content of which Kathleen Wynne, the soon-to-be-former premier, couldn’t…
Ontario sleepwalking into more expensive electricity, more air pollution
In 3 short months, Ontarians will have the opportunity to participate in a public hearing on the future of the Pickering nuclear station. It is a very important hearing, and everyone who can participate should. Briefly, the upshot of the…
A pleasantly surprising, and new, long player: welcome to nuclear power, Brookfield
After years of enduring tiresome greenwash-laden press releases about wind and solar power from rentseeking billion dollar companies like Berkshire Hathaway, Loblaw, and Tesla, I was refreshed and encouraged to see Brookfield Business Partners, a subsidiary of Canadian Brookfield Asset…