A Time for Statesmanship
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…
I helped plan Energy East, and I know the government’s excuses are bunk
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…
B.C.’s LNG woes are the result of red tape and government stalling
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…
Did Trump do Canada a Favor in Pulling out of the Paris Accord?
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…
So What is the Point of the Alberta Carbon Tax Now, Miss Notley?
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…
The Trudeau government finds a good idea for actually making pipeline approvals easier
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…
Coming to Terms with Canadian Carbon Policy – 2nd Quarter 2017
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…
Best Opportunity. Best Lost Opportunity?
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…