Calgary Herald | Mar 31, 2021 That a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada would affirm the constitutionality of the federal government to impose carbon taxes of whatever stringency it deems appropriate is hardly a surprise. That a purely…
OTTAWA, ON (February 16, 2021): Last December, the federal government released a proposed draft of the Clean Fuel Regulation (CFR). However, with a federal carbon tax regime already in place and set to increase to $170 per tonne by 2030,…
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…
