Originally published in The Hub: The grand bargain between Alberta and the federal government has reheated the public debate over the competitiveness impacts of industrial carbon pricing. We welcome this debate, because critics tend to build their case on a recurrent misunderstanding: that facilities today pay $95 per tonne of carbon. This $95 policy price
Originally published in The StarPhoenix: Saskatchewan has a generational opportunity to supercharge its economic future. We should seize it. Recent agreements with Alberta and B.C. have shown that Ottawa is prepared to make a new deal with the West. Let’s use the new spirit of cooperative federalism to land a deal for Saskatchewan’s nuclear industry
Originally published in The Hill Times. Canada is within reach of a historic “grand bargain” with Alberta on energy and climate that could define our economy for a generation. Yet at this critical moment, the oil sector is amping up its criticism of industrial carbon pricing as a drain on its competitiveness. This argument is
Originally published in The Globe and Mail: The memorandum of understanding signed last week between the federal and Alberta governments was promptly attacked by climate advocates as a betrayal of climate action in Canada. Chief among them was MP Steven Guilbeault, formerly a Trudeau-era environment minister, who called the deal a “serious mistake” and resigned
Originally published in The Hub. Canada has a major economic opportunity in the global low-carbon economy, if it gets its climate and energy policies right. Those policies should be informed by principles like leveraging the ingenuity of markets and free enterprise, limited government, and respect for provincial jurisdiction. The following article is the latest installment
Originally published in The Globe and Mail. In business, as in politics, timing is everything. You can have the best project or policy plan, but miss the moment for action, and a winning idea is doomed to history’s dustbin. These moments can be rare and fleeting, especially when operating at the intersection of environment, economy
Originally published in The Hub. Canada has a major economic opportunity in the global low-carbon economy, if it gets its climate and energy policies right. Those policies should be informed by principles like leveraging the ingenuity of markets and free enterprise, limited government, and respect for provincial jurisdiction. The following article is the latest installment
By Benjamin Dachis, vice president, research and outreach and Adam Sweet, vice president, Western Canada Originally published in The Hub. Canada has a major economic opportunity in the global low-carbon economy, if it gets its climate and energy policies right. Those policies should be informed by principles like leveraging the ingenuity of markets and free
Originally published in the Calgary Herald. There’s been a flurry of big new carbon capture projects announced in Alberta in recent weeks, which is good news for the province’s growing low-carbon economy, and the investment and jobs that will come with it. Fueled by TIER — Alberta’s carbon credit market — this growth is good
Originally published in The Hub. Over the past year, the Ontario government has begun to lay out a vision for transforming how the province generates, stores, and uses electricity. This includes important investments in Ontario’s clean-energy future—investments that need to be followed with even more ambitious policy to grow the province’s low-carbon economy over the
To decarbonize our economy and hit our climate targets, we have to build a lot of low-carbon projects – fast. What’s needed now is for the federal government to follow through on its commitments to strengthen Canada’s industrial carbon pricing system.
With the upcoming provincial budget, Alberta has an opportunity to send a signal to the world that we are committed to becoming a diversified energy powerhouse, and our province is focused on winning the race to attract the investment needed in low-carbon energy that the world needs.
