Category Archives: Aldyen Donnelly

I would be very surprised if the Supreme Court (SC) rules in favour of Friends of the Earth (FOE). The problem is that the law of the land allows the PM to sign an international treaty without Parliamentary oversight. But to balance that power, the PM-signed/ratified treaty does not become law of the land unless/until Parliament passes domestic legislation that enacts the treaty in full.  
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Question: If Canada stopped selling leaded gas in 1986, and stopped making leaded gas in 1989—what happened in the intervening years when access to the US market was restricted? Why would our refiners eat the 30% premium to enter the US market? Is it just because they had to exhaust their leaded gas capital, or is there another story here? Continue reading →

According to my research, Canada is the only country that experienced any growth in goods producing jobs between 1990 and 2007. In fact, Canada is the only country in the entire developed world that in 2007 had more goods-producing jobs than were in place in 1990.
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I have pointed out, previously, that every nation that relies heavily on carbon taxes and/or feed-in tariffs as GHG mitigation/climate change measures has ended up delivering massive and continuing green subsidies to industry—while passing more than 100% of the incremental cost of carbon taxes, cap-and-trade compliance costs and Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) to their residential customer bases.  

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Dr. Jaccard said: "When the price of oil fell in the 1960s…"

Neither the nominal nor the inflation-adjusted price of oil changed much during the 1960s—at least compared to other decades. After a significant post-WW II hike, the inflation-adjusted price of oil fell during the 1950s and did not really change much until 1974, when the price went through the roof.
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Every time "cap and trade" has been introduced in the US (44 times since 1977 in air, water and wastewater markets):

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For a closer look at wellhead to refinery gate Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, take a look at these Life Cycle Emissions reports by the Alberta Energy Research Institute.
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Canadian newspapers repeatedly report that "most" Canadian economists favour GST increases and carbon taxation to finance new income tax cuts.

It is true that "most economists" feel that increasing the GST and/or taxing carbon emissions and using the new revenues to cut income taxes is an appropriate modification of Canada’s tax system. The problem is that they are wrong.

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One of the big NDP and Liberal story lines is that the US is spending US $118-billion in stimulus funds on environmental initiatives, while Canada’s stimulus package has only Cdn $3-billion for green initiatives.
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