On Dec. 11, the Trudeau government announced A Healthy Environment and A Healthy Economy, its long-awaited plan for Canada to achieve the carbon emission reductions that it had committed itself to from the Paris Climate Accord. Although legislatively entrenching both…
Calgary Herald | November 28th, 2020 | By Dennis McConaghy The Trudeau government has announced its intention to enact Bill C-12, which would commit Canada to achieving net-zero GHG emissions by 2050. It was conceded in Trudeau’s personal remarks that this…
By Dennis McConaghy | May 14, 2019 Alberta is profoundly challenged. This cannot be understated. Over the last ten years it has been assaulted by the North American environmental movement persistently and ruthlessly by frustrating the required market access infrastructure…
The former head of TransCanada’s pipeline strategy says Canada cannot afford to ignore the lessons of Energy East’s demise October 12 | Financial Post I was a senior officer of TransCanada Pipelines when the Energy East project was conceived and…
Dennis McConaghy, Macleans | August 2, 2017 OPINION: A window of opportunity existed for Canada to become a big player in LNG. We should be concerned about what we’ve lost. - Dennis McConaghy Canadians should be both dismayed and concerned by the decision by Petronas in…
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…
