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After the death of Energy East, it’s time we put an end to Bombardier jets

Neil Mohindra: Why aren’t environmentalists who cheered Energy East's demise also celebrating the end of Bombardier’s jets?

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Lawrence Solomon: Trudeau stubbornly keeps Canada standing with Paris as...

This week it was Australia’s turn to desert the cause, when it rejected its Clean Energy Target

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Responsible investing will be replaced by 'investing with no prefixes'

Barry Critchley: Looking at environmental, social and governance issues will be the way things are done

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Peter Foster: How Trump saved freedom and democracy from the Climate...

The U.S. was a problem for the green global governors because of that picky Constitution

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Lawrence Solomon: The corruption of environmental regulation goes down the...

EPA board members have for years been pocketing jaw-dropping grants from the very agency they’ve been advising

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Excerpt: Exposing the totalitarian roots of the climate industrial complex

Rupert Darwall: The U.S. is the only advanced country to have rejected targets and timetables in a climate change treaty

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Who's name-calling whom?

Peter Foster: The crucial questions about climate change are: How much impact does it have, and what if anything should be done about it

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'Sickening': First Nations left empty-handed as environmentalist pressure...

While opponents steal the limelight, scores of pro-development First Nations groups worry they'll lose once-in-a-lifetime opportunities that could lift people out of poverty

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Joe Oliver: Ranting about climate isn’t good government policy, and isn’t...

We need to tone down the rhetoric and have an honest discussion based on verifiable science and the financial implications of green policies

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A fairy tale of Canada doing good for the world has become a nightmare

Gwyn Morgan: Once upon a time in a northern Dominion called Canada, there was a thriving oil industry

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Investing goes fossil free - without affecting performance

At Genus Capital Management the move to fossil free investing has not affected performance

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Finn Poschmann: The provinces are right to balk at the Liberals’ carbon-tax...

The federal plan promises to be 'flexible' but offers a menu that includes only taxes and cap and trade

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Ross McKitrick: Trudeau can have carbon cuts, income growth or high...

The Trudeau government has embraced carbon pricing but otherwise has little idea how it will comply with Paris and what cost it is willing to bear

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Three (perfectly democratic) reasons Donald Trump will absolutely smother the...

Despite what people at last week's UN climate meeting might think, Donald Trump’s victory will almost certainly lead to the Paris climate agreement’s unraveling

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Terence Corcoran: Coal phase-out another sign of Liberals' climate-policy muddle

Terence Corcoran: The move shows a government in the thrall of green activists wielding dubious statistics on the health benefits of eliminating coal

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Kevin Libin: More spending from Alberta’s NDP for ‘diversification’ is really...

No matter how much diversification happens in Alberta, it’s never quite enough for governments that spend as much they can get away with to encourage more of it

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Alberta to pay three power companies $1.36 billion to shut their coal-fired...

The NDP government has mandated all coal-fired power plants either cease operations or eliminate all their emissions by 2030 as part of sweeping climate change legislation

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Terence Corcoran: Canada swearing off carbon is like Charlie Sheen swearing...

In Canada’s Carbon Policies, the country is swearing off sex, but to get to that state of environmental well-being we need to have a lot more

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Arrested Development: Ottawa walks delicate balancing act between energy and...

Big bucks are at stake as is the country’s environmental reputation as crunch time looms for the Liberal government: decisions on regulatory reviews and another major pipeline

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Kevin Libin: Beware of desperate politicians seeking 'environmental legacies'

As Canadians — and now Americans — are learning, there is little more dangerous than a political leader with nothing to lose

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Lawrence Solomon: Proof that a new ice age has already started is stronger...

An underheated planet is a threat humans have repeatedly faced over the last millennium, and now we’re due again

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Anxiety is building as Canada and U.S. energy policies head in opposite...

Claudia Cattaneo: What’s certain, however, is that the U.S. oil and gas sector seems very excited about the years ahead

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Peter Foster: The boreal forest ‘agreement’ was an eco-radical shakedown....

The CBFA was nothing less than an attempt by U.S.-funded groups to seize control of Canadian environmental policy

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Lawrence Solomon: Yes, our environmental group is 'controversial'; we're also...

Vice is right to call our group Energy Probe ‘Canada’s most controversial environmental organization;’ we challenge conventional thinking

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Kevin Libin: Dear carbon-tax Republicans — Canadians are here from the future...

Not a single one of Canada’s carbon-tax plans ever fulfilled the promise of maintaining 'free markets and limited government'

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Lawrence Solomon: Finally it's safe for the whistleblowers of corrupted...

The greatest scientific fraud of the century will be laid bare, along with its corrupt enablers in government, academia, industry and the media

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They keep saying shutting down coal will make us healthier, so how come...

Warren Kindzierski: Perhaps breathing the air in Edmonton or Red Deer is less harmful to your health than ingesting unproven claims that coal burning is poisoning Albertans

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Lawrence Solomon: Now that the global warming era is nearing an end, the...

Global climate change policies have harmed poor countries by skewing their economies off the fossil fuels that encourage sound development

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Terence Corcoran: Trump is playing Galileo in the global climate change...

Trump’s executive order laid down another challenge to Canada’s environmental bureaucracy and the Trudeau government’s carbon price plan

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Northern Dynasty shares surge 32 per cent after crucial Alaska permit approval

The Vancouver-based company said late Tuesday its U.S. subsidiary Pebble has received notice of approval for a miscellaneous land use permit

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Matthew Lau: Let the war on negative externalities begin, but we won't start...

It appears the Ontario Liberals are fans of market-based economics only so long as the market’s decisions are overridden by government central planners

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Amazingly, data show that Canada's air is getting cleaner despite more cars,...

Ross McKitrick and Elmira Aliakbari: Canada has effectively decoupled air pollution from energy use and economic growth over the past few decades

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New report argues regulators should focus on maximizing economic value, not...

The report argues regulators should not make public interest determinations, but decisions based on what is most economically efficient or what maximizes value for the country

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National carbon plan is on shaky ground with shifting priorities in the West

Claudia Cattaneo: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took another step toward his grand bargain on Thursday — carbon pricing for pipeline approvals

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Rob Merrifield: Politicians killed Canada’s low-dollar advantage by piling on...

Carbon taxes and heavier regulations have companies questioning whether to commit to investments in Canada

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When it comes to taxing carbon, Canada has it exactly backward

Luc Vallée and Jean Michaud: The current arrangement of taxing production exempts imports and taxes exports, thereby impeding the competitiveness of Canadian businesses

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Burden on oilsands grows as panel sets strict carbon diet for Alberta government

Claudia Cattaneo: A panel representing environmentalists, oil companies, aboriginal communities and municipalities has managed to achieve consensus on a set of recommendations

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Junk Science Week: Pollution doesn't really cost Canada $39B yearly, but it'd...

How much pollution is generated in Canada? What are the economic costs versus the benefits? These are good questions, but we still need accurate answers for proper debates

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Matthew Lau: Our great green re-education is being led by the very worst...

One subsidy example was ‘theatre productions … to engage young people in climate change’

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The more governments abuse and misuse carbon taxes, the more Canadians...

Kenneth Green: Canadians are realizing the policies are neither ‘efficient’ nor ‘economically benign’

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Al Gore can’t deny that his climate crusade involves great suffering

Alex Epstein: Gore has to make the case that climate dangers warrant so much human misery

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Peter Foster: Brainwashed movie peer reviewers give Gore’s sequel two...

An Inconvenient Sequel is basically a rehash. One significant development is that Gore's trained thousands to spread the Gorespel of climate scientology

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How much will Ontario suffer for handcuffing carbon prices to the California...

Peter Shawn Taylor: The biggest peril faced by Ontario and Quebec is U.S. politics.

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Writing on the wall for Energy East, but Trudeau is making costly gamble

There's a suggestion that backing the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion from Alberta to B.C. would cost Trudeau fewer votes than Energy East

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Terence Corcoran: How Hurricane Harvey made Naomi Klein want to shut me up

The winds and rains from Hurricane Harvey were battering Houston, so Klein sensed an opportunity to cash in on a timely disaster

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The world is running out of sand — and you’d be surprised how significant...

From fracking to the construction boom, sand has become such a hot commodity that ‘sand mafias’ have sprung up that illegally mine and sell it on a black market

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Lawrence Solomon: Paris is dead. The global warming deniers have won

Since his pullout in June, Trump has repeatedly reaffirmed the wisdom of pulling out of the “bad deal” for the U.S. that was Paris

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How less regulation could actually lead to lower carbon emissions

Colin Craig: By keeping natural gas in the ground, the Canadian government is indirectly keeping Chinese coal plants running and pumping out carbon dioxide

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The mask gets ripped off yet another carbon-tax dishonesty

Kris Sims: The nationally vaunted “revenue-neutral” B.C. carbon tax has finally taken off its mask. It is now just another bare-faced tax grab

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Lawrence Solomon: Trump finally ends the undemocratic autocracy of Obama’s...

Thwarted by the legislative branch of the U.S. government, Obama decided on one-man rule

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