Quebec's political leaders seem to have fallen for the Great Green Dream of economic prosperity without energy or natural resource production. It's a magical vision of a world powered by unicorns and rainbows, where consumer goods are somehow conjured out of thin air rather than being manufactured with resources extracted...

Earlier this month the Fraser Institute published a report sharply critical of one of the flagship policies of the Ontario government, namely the Ontario Green Energy Act (GEA). We found that the Act is costing Ontario over $5 billion annually but yields negligible environmental benefits, and that equivalent...

Earth Day 2013 in Quebec saw a very large turnout of very enthusiastic people: some 50,000 people took to the streets to demonstrate their commitment to environmental protection. Such commitment is laudable -- after all, we all want to breath clean air, we all want to drink clean...

An interesting article by Claudia Cattaneo in the Financial Post discusses the collapse of the decade-long push for a "National Energy Strategy:"

"After nearly a decade of calls for a national energy strategy by a cacophony of interest groups with different priorities, the idea seems to have drifted...

Carbon taxes are once again dominating the discussion over energy policy in Alberta, where Environment Minister Diana McQueen has proposed a sharp hike to Alberta's carbon levy. Presently, large emitters in Alberta are required to reduce greenhouse gas emission intensity (that is, emissions per unit of production) by...

Michael Binnion, CEO of Questerre Energy and head of the Quebec Oil and Gas Association, has a great blog post up in which he discusses the impact that equalization payments have on Quebec's energy and natural resource policy.

Looking at Quebec's budget, Binnion observes:

"It seems to me...

Alberta Premier Alison Redford has found a new love (at least she had before she withdrew her affections) -- for a national carbon tax, or at least, a carbon levy scheme similar to that enacted in Alberta. According to PostMedia News, "Redford said she would like to see the federal...

As Joel Gehrke at the Washington Examiner reports, President Obama's proposed Secretary of Energy for his second term, MIT physicist Ernest Moniz, gave a revealing interview to the Switch Energy Project, a group devoted to promoting energy efficiency. Asked about a carbon tax, Dr....

Thomas Mulcair, federal NDP leader and Leader of the Opposition, has recently been berating Canada's environmental performance as he travels in the United States: "In the U.S. people know how to read," he said. "They know that Canada is the only country that has withdrawn from Kyoto. They...

Robert Bryce, a prolific writer about all things energy, has another terrific post up pointing out the virtues of hydrocarbons, particularly oil, something that Canada has in tremendous quantities. Bryce sings the virtues of oil because of its incredible energy density - that is, the energy it packs in per...

On November 6, 2012, the citizens of the United States decided to maintain, essentially, the status quo: they re-elected Barack Obama as President, left the United States House of Representatives solidly in Republican hands, and left the United States Senate under the control of the Democratic Party. But as with...