Canada, with a mere one per cent increase in oil and gas investment between 2009 and 2017 was the other exception to the recovery in oil and gas investment worldwide
Read MoreHistory matters: By the late 1980s and early 1990s, even liberal Americans were tiring of the excuse-a-day approach to crime on the streets and those who explained away crime with endless “root cause” theories.
Read MoreAn Alberta politician recently gloated over Thatcher’s death before apologizing. Useful fact: Thatcher’s 11-year time in power resulted in 1.7 million more Britons employed, compared with just 600,000 new jobs in France in the same period.
Read MoreKeeping the Paris commitment will not be cost-free and existing policies lack sufficient means to the promised Paris end.
Read MoreThe claim that First Nations are overwhelmingly opposed to oil and gas development is false
Read MoreMost of this activity requires little from governments, only that politicians and others allow these industries to flourish—including by not standing in the way of pipelines.
Read More“The partisanship of the radicals distressed him; it was, he remarked, ‘a bad habit to say that another man’s thoughts are bad and only ours are good, and that those holding different views from ours are the enemies of the country.”
Read MoreSelf-harm is never a viable strategy for a positive future.
Read MoreThat today’s liberals once again call themselves progressives is more honest and accurate than using the “liberal” label, given that term once designated those who valued liberty and personal responsibility.
Read MoreConflating personal prejudice with institutional racism does a tremendous disservice to those who lived through actual institutional racism, and who successfully fought such practices to extinction.
Read MoreWhen so-called “ethical investors” do not treat tyranny-produced oil in the same manner as diamonds mined with slave labour in Africa — blood diamonds, they make a choice.
Read MoreSince the 1950s, successive governments instead slashed at the dragon’s tendons and arteries by enacting policies that forswore race as a basis for government or public discrimination.
Read MoreSomething like that mistaken assertion about Twain now faces the oil and natural gas industry worldwide and in Canada.
Read MoreThe reason Gates predicted a pandemic is not because he was Dr. Evil plotting to infect us all, but because he reads history and also understands statistical probabilities.
Read MoreThose who wish to kill off Canada’s oil and gas sector too easily omit critical context: Worldwide trends mean that oil and gas consumption and such emissions will continue even if Canada’s energy industry disappears.
Read MoreThe critical importance of oil and gas extraction to First Nations prosperity also becomes clear when we compare rates of employment and incomes across industries.
Read MoreUnless critics wish to assert a decades-long expert such as Prof. Smil Is wrong about energy density and present technological capabilities, demand for oil may well follow the curve in the IEA’s Stated Policy scenario.
Read MoreLook for the close-ups of Don Henley on the drums. You can almost see the beads of sweat on his forehead while he drums and sings and intensely so. And then there are the guitar solos and harmony later from Joe Walsh and Don Feder.
Read MoreWe need the possibilty for beauty precisely because the world is not always kind.
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