The Oil Party Is Over, Trudeau — Even Canada’s Energy Firms Know It Why are corporations more candid about industry’s realities than our prime minister? By Ross Belot 18 Jul 2017 | iPolitics This column first appeared in the always excellent iPolitics. Ross Belot is a retired senior manager with one of Canada’s…
Why the Oilsands Era Is Over Carbon pricing and low energy costs spell economic doom for Alberta megaprojects. By Ian Hussey 15 Feb 2018 | TheTyee.ca Ian Hussey is a political economist at the University of Alberta’s Parkland Institute, and a steering committee member and the Alberta research manager for the SSHRCC-funded Corporate Mapping Project. Syncrude’s oilsands processing plant.…
Only Fantasies, Desperation and Wishful Thinking Keep Pipeline Plans Alive There is no waiting Asian market for oilsands crude. In fact there’s no waiting market anywhere. By Mitchell Anderson , is a freelance writer based in Vancouver and a frequent contributor to The Tyee. “The bottom has already fallen out of many bitumen projects yet they stagger on,…
‘Peoplekind’ Is a Painful and Goofy Example of Trudeau’s Hollowness The prime minister’s constant use of progressive language contradicts his government’s actions. By Tom Parkin 9 Feb 2018 | TheTyee.ca Tom Parkin is a political writer and frequent media commentator with a social democratic perspective. Once again, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a display of his progressive…
Site C Risks ‘Death Spiral’ for BC Hydro, Says Watchdog Consumer Policy Institute warns of big rate hikes and pressure for taxpayer bailout. By Andrew Nikiforuk 2 Feb 2018 | TheTyee.ca Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for two decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. Find his previous…
An Open Letter from NDP Members About Site C An appeal to the provincial government to reconsider its decision. By Andrea Craddock, Rita Wong and Mary Madsen 2 Feb 2018 | TheTyee.ca Rita Wong is an NDP member from Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, Andrea Craddock is a member from North Island and Mary Madsen is a member from Kamloops. More than a hundred members…
OPINION How to Fight Site C Six ways citizens can sway the government to reverse a disastrous decision. By Andrew Nikiforuk in TheTyee.ca Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for two decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. Andrew Nikiforuk writes: ‘The fight over Site C has just…
Credit to: Joe Romm https://thinkprogress.org/@jromm Dr. Joe Romm is Founding Editor of Climate Progress, “the indispensable blog,” as NY Times columnist Tom Friedman describes it. EPA staff ‘openly mocking’ Trump’s ‘arrogant and callous’ policies, says retiree 30-year veteran compares EPA chief’s climate denial to lies tobacco executives told Congress President Donald Trump, with (from left) Vice…
Peter Julian, NDP leader candidate 2017 The economic costs of climate change increase every day. Canadians need bold leadership on a clean energy transition and job creation strategy for workers. Peter Julian proposed his “Just Transition Fund” that will create tens of thousands of long-term, sustainable jobs through multi-billion dollar investments in research and…
Accounting ploys kept rates down, government revenue up — but at big future costs. Storm clouds over the W.A.C. Bennett dam — and BC Hydro. Photo by Tad McIlwraith, from Your BC: The Tyee’s Photo Pool. The Liberal government in Ontario is facing a major political crisis due to opposition to the rapid increase…
