Tag Archives: carbon emissions

Queen’s Park the biggest winner with cap and trade

Posted on March 23, 2016 by consumerpolicyinstitute

(March 23, 2016) Cap and trade will provide endless reasons for interest groups to lobby Queen’s Park for access to the many exemptions and potential political favours embedded in the legislation.

Posted in Reforming Ontario's Local Electrical Distribution Sector | Tagged Brady Yauch, cap and trade, carbon emissions, carbon markets, Energy Probe, Ontario, Ontario electricity | Leave a comment

The Politics of Alternative Energy (3): The Need for Public Ownership of the Carbon “Idea”

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Other News Sources

(July 4, 2011) “If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created”. These words of economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek’s today resonate loudly in the carbon “idea” – that the West should fast-track a low-carbon economy no matter what the socio-economic cost. Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Renewables | Tagged carbon, carbon emission targets, carbon emissions, carbon reduction goals, climate, CO2 issues, cost issues, decarbonisation, domestic fuel bills, fossil fuel energy, fuel poverty, green taxes, Lawrence Solomon, lower-carbon economy, Michael J. Economides, Peter C. Glover, Renewable Energy, Sam Laidlaw, utility cost, wind farms | Leave a comment

Aldyen Donnelly: A Response to Peter Foster’s “The Demons in Krugmanomics”

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Other News Sources

(June 29, 2011) The following is a response to Peter Foster’s article published in the Financial Post on June 29, 2011. To read The Demons in Krugmanomics, click here.