Since beginning this blog, I have urged the federal Conservative government to claim credit for the Ontario Achievement in carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reductions. Ontario’s electricity generating sector, as I have pointed out, has reduced annual CO2 emissions by nearly…
Category: Carbon tax
Carbon trading in China: post-modern environmentalism meets classical Marxism
The European Emission Trading System (ETS) is an utterly ineffective attempt to prompt a “market” response to rising carbon emissions. It is ineffective because it has not prompted the allegedly intended market response, and that is because the market has…
Oilsands and airplanes, pots and kettles: are climate agreements a waste of time?
“If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations [by reducing greenhouse gas pollution], I will.” Thus spake the U.S. president on February 12 of this year, in his 2013 state of the union speech. Only 77 days earlier, he…
Embrace nuclear energy, Alberta: it’s the only way to lower oilsands GHGs
Alberta is panicking right now, fearing the worst when the U.S. makes its next decision on the Keystone Pipeline. If the new American secretary of state’s recent legislative past is an indicator, Keystone, which will carry Alberta bitumen to the…
Obama signals non action on climate change, praises gas: meanwhile, Ontario gas plants dump 1,885 tons of pollution
Since Obama became president, I have wondered if he would ever make good on the lofty promises of action on climate change that he made in his 2008 election campaign. Every time he says something on the topic, my heart…