Wither Post-Carbon Economy?
Governments’ are making great efforts—such as banning oil pipelines and subsidizing unprofitable “green” technologies to avert man-made climate change—to help businesses move to the post-carbon economy. But businesses are not getting on the bandwagon. The few...Video: The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
Could everything we know about fossil fuels be wrong? For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet at the same time, by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to...
Immoral Government: “Phasing Out” Fossil Fuels
I thought of writing a post to defend the producers of the Canadian oil sands against yet another celebrity attack, after Jane Fonda flew here to lecture people, including the unemployed oil industry workers, to stop consuming fossil fuels and building oil pipelines....
Laissez-Faire Capitalism: The Solution to the Oil and Gas Unemployment Crisis
According to estimates, there are 100,000 unemployed oil and gas workers in Alberta, most of them highly trained professionals in my home town Calgary. Many of them have been without work since the oil prices collapsed about two years ago and have run out of severance...
No Business Should Cheer a Carbon Tax
I just changed cell phone providers. Why? My former provider, Telus, was tweeting its enthusiastic support for the newly announced Canadian federal carbon tax of $10 per tonne emitted in 2018. (The levy will increase every year, to $50 per tonne in 2022). See the...
Defending Fossil Fuel Companies Against Climate Catastrophists
In the dark world of the climate catastrophists, fossil fuel companies are the villains. Having been persuaded by the hugely inaccurate (to the point of being irrelevant) climate change models and operating from an anti-human stance, climate catastrophists are...
Defending Oil Pipelines: The Invalid Concept of ‘Social License’
” ‘Social license’ is an invalid concept also because business does not require a license to operate from society nor the government. It merely needs others wanting to trade with it and must not violate others’ individual rights, which government must...
Corporations and Climate Change Salvation
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has predicted that climate change will lead to a financial catastrophe—unless corporate leaders start taking the risks of climate change and climate change policy into account in their decision making. As Terence Corcoran reports...
