Kenneth P Green

Conference in the Holy Land produces glimmers of climate policy sanity

As we approach December, a Month of Many Miracles, we may be seeing sparks of sanity emerging on the climate policy front. For the first time in this writer’s memory, this year’s United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP27) ended with some…

Guest Opinion: Conference in the Holy Land produces glimmers of climate policy sanity

Article content As we approach December, a Month of Many Miracles, we may be seeing sparks of sanity emerging on the climate policy front. Article content For the first time in this writer’s memory, this year’s United Nations Conference of the…

Ottawa stoking unfounded climate fears to remake Canada

Once again, the Trudeau government has claimed that global weather disasters, ostensibly driven by human greenhouse gas emissions, are increasing, will continue to increase, and you should be frightened. Frightened enough, in fact, to let the…

Another reason to oppose Ottawa’s carbon tax

As the holiday season nears, the Trudeau government has managed to create yet another reason to oppose the federal carbon tax. Previous reasons include: 1) it’s raising the cost of everything, 2) it’s not (nor will it ever) meaningfully lower the…

Guest Column: Another reason to oppose Trudeau’s carbon tax

As the holiday season nears, the Trudeau government has managed to create yet another reason to oppose the federal carbon tax. Article content Previous reasons include: 1) it’s raising the cost of everything, 2) it’s not (nor will it ever) meaningful…

COVID-19: The Risk in Perspective

The global reaction to COVID-19 was unprecedented. Government actions proposed, promoted, mandated and enforced to modify the risks to individuals and society as a whole were orders of magnitude more intrusive than any other risk-intervention…

Don't be fooled by ‘per-capita emissions’ metrics

Once again, Canada is being portrayed as an environmental laggard, and by implication, Canadians are being portrayed as morally dubious. Even the prime minister receives a drubbing. Why? Because declines in per-capita greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions…

Ottawa’s opposition to natural gas hurting Canadians and the world

Governments in Canada have been on a mission, which began in earnest in 2015, to shut down fossil fuel production, distribution, consumption and (indirectly) trade. While opposition to the oilsands has gotten the most attention, the Trudeau…

Ottawa’s ‘net-zero’ transit plan seems disconnected from reality

In case you haven’t heard, the Trudeau government has a plan for Canada to become a “net-zero” emitter of greenhouse gases by 2050 with an interim plan to 2030. As some analysts (including myself) have observed, this is a quixotic endeavour doomed to…

Ottawa’s ‘net-zero’ housing plan makes zero sense

The Trudeau government wants Canada to achieve “net-zero” greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. In plain English, that means the country can’t emit any more GHGs into the atmosphere than are taken out of the atmosphere. If that policy sounds like…

Guest Opinion: Trudeau government's 'net-zero' housing plan makes zero sense

Article content The Trudeau government wants Canada to achieve “net-zero” greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. Article content In plain English, that means the country can’t emit any more GHGs into the atmosphere than are taken out of the…

Don’t blame hurricane damage on climate change

Predictably, what with the regularity of the Earth’s orbit, hurricanes are in the news again. And equally predictably, politicians eager to scare up votes, and the establishment media’s desire to attract eyeballs, “climate change” is taking the…

Science exposes Ottawa’s ill-founded war on plastics

As all attentive Canadian beverage consumers must know by now, the Trudeau government has declared war on your plastic grocery bag, drinking straw, food container, cling film, plastic water bottle, plastic cutlery and plastic stir stick—also known as…

Canada following the wrong ‘emissions’ example

The Trudeau government, like other governments in the World Trade Organization/G8 orbit, has set Canada on an ambitious path to neutralize the impact on the global climate by 2050. By that arbitrarily date, Canada will theoretically have regulated…

Canada must come back down to ‘energy’ reality

The wind and solar power obsession of the last 20 years is failing to live up to its hype—the power hasn’t scaled, the storage technology hasn’t appeared, the negative environmental impacts have been larger than expected and, of course, the wind does…

Ottawa takes ‘plastics’ policy to the extreme

Eat with your fingers, cretin! I’m paraphrasing, but not by much, from the Trudeau government’s new Guidance for Selecting Alternatives to Single-Use Plastics. Yes, your government has offered detailed advice about alternatives to all kinds of…

Canada did not ‘miss’ its LNG window—it was nailed shut

Ever since I started focusing on Canadian energy policy some 15 years ago, the conversation has been about Canada “missing windows”—missing economic windows for the production of oil and/or gas, missing infrastructure-construction windows, and…

Ottawa’s nitrous oxide plan—no laughing matter

The Trudeau government, as part of its “net-zero” framework, has set its sights on one particular greenhouse gas that’s near and dear to the hearts, lungs and stomachs of Canadians—namely nitrous oxide, a gas species composed of two atoms of…

Net-zero—the pathway to Canadian decline

A new (and profoundly bad) policy idea has gripped the world’s climate-obsessed leaders to address scenarios mostly generated by their own imaginative (and often wrong) predictive climate models. Basically, economic development must stop in 2050, and…

Ottawa’s war on agriculture must stop

The Trudeau has committed to “net-zero” greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. This ill-advised commitment will make for a poorer less-economically-free Canada today and in the future. For example, the government’s path to net-zero calls for a 30…