(August 24, 2011) Californian stars and Canadian environmentalists protest Alberta heavy oil while making no effort to stop the California regulators from going out of their way to over-allocate excess free GHG quota to subsidize more GHG-intensive California heavy oil.
(August 22, 2011) The Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation (OEFC) generally has its annual report completed by mid to late June or just a couple of months after its March 31st year-end. The public doesn’t get to see the report until it has been tabled in the Ontario Legislature by the Finance Minister and that process for the past several years can take as much as a full year. This year the first part of the pattern was normal however; the March 31, 2011 annual report has just been released without the aforementioned tabling of the report by the Finance Minister in the Legislature. The Auditor General’s report is dated June 21, 2011 but the Legislature has not sat since June 1, 2011 so we must conclude the report has not been tabled.
(August 19, 2011) Alberta passes draconian laws abolishing property rights.
(August 17, 2011) Hydro One’s financial statements are out, yet despite all of the media attention about the electricity sector in Ontario, the financial results of the publicly owned power utilities attract no attention. Odd, since they are the instruments that the government uses to execute its controversial policies under the Green Energy Act. Continue reading
(August 8, 2011) A number of Canada’s leading economists are far from objective when it comes to their tax and energy policy prescriptions, and they may sometimes produce opinion pieces that are not well-founded on fact.
(August 5, 2011) Time for public libraries to update their outdated business model.
(August 2, 2011) In Greek Mythology Aeolus was the “King of Wind” but in Canadian Mythology the King of Wind is CanWEA; a not-for-profit association of 420 members including public and private companies, legal firms, manufacturers, etc. and others who feed off of the largess of taxpayers and ratepayers to ensure they retain their mandated (Ontario’s Green Energy Act) place on the energy podium.
(July 29, 2011) Few taxpayers would notice any diminution of service.
(July 27, 2011) There is something the Europeans, who assume a hypothetical, independent Palestine, have overlooked: Without Israeli good will, a Palestinian state couldn’t support itself.
(July 6, 2011) The Ontario government’s hurried decision to subsidize renewable energy sources – specifically wind turbines – has created losses for energy consumers and tax payers, according to a study by Michael Trebilcock, a Law and Economics Professor at the University of Toronto.
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