Donald Trump missed an opportunity this past week. Instead of simply withdrawing from the Paris Accord, he could have insisted on a fundamental renegotiation of its most basic premises as the price of the US continuing to be a party…
Last week saw the long awaited release of the Oil Sands Advisory Group, “OSAG”. Its primary function was to provide recommendations to the Alberta government on how the current oil sands emissions cap could be practically implemented. It did not…
By Hal Kvisle and Dennis McConaghy, Special to Financial Post | June 6, 2017 A significant campaign promise for the Trudeau government was a re-invention of the regulatory approval process for major energy pipelines, to “restore public trust and confidence” in…
In November 2016, Canada’s first ministers met to progress Canadian carbon policy. Ideally they would have actually dealt with its current contradictions. What occurred fell well short of that objective, settling for an incomplete consensus on a national carbon pricing…
Carbon pricing has had long standing academic support as the most economically efficient policy instrument for dealing with the risk of global climate change. https://www.brookings.edu/research/controlling-carbon-emissions-from-u-s-power-plants-how-a-tradable-performance-standard-compares-to-a-carbon-tax/ The relative merits of carbon taxes merits versus cap and trade to actually are well…
Dundun Press | February 14, 2017 An investigation of the history and demise of the most controversial North American energy infrastructure project. In 2015, President Barack Obama denied approval for TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, which would have carried crude oil from…
Deborah Yedlin, Calgary Herald | March 24, 2017 In April 2011, the New York Times published an editorial cartoon depicting eight U.S. presidents — from Nixon to Obama — with a caption that read: “We must decrease our dependence on Mideast Oil.” TransCanada Corp. was…