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Oil companies delay emission cuts pending results of next federal election

January 9, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Jan. 8, 2024. By Christopher Bonasia With the 2025 federal election threatening to topple Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, some oil and gas companies [Read more]

Student Resources

Carbon pricing is over-hyped…more regulation, industrial policy needed to reduce emissions

January 20, 2021 Markham Hislop

Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Dr. Danny Cullenward, Stanford energy economist and lawyer, and co-author with Dr. David G. Victor, of the new book, “Making climate policy work.” Related links: Klein vs [Read more]

News

CBoC warns of carbon leakage, a possible side-effect of carbon pricing

November 4, 2019 Energi Staff

On Monday, the Conference Board of Canada released a report on carbon leakage, one of the possible side effects of carbon pricing in Canada. The report, Tipping the Scales – Assessing Carbon Competitiveness and Leakage [Read more]

Opinion

Opinion: The worst kind of climate policy is an uncertain one

July 22, 2019 Energi Staff

By Jason Dion This article was published by Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission on July 17, 2019. The challenge of policy uncertainty I recently discussed the Ontario government’s 2018 repeal of cap-and-trade with an executive from a large multinational [Read more]

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How much will the carbon tax cost you when driving?

July 3, 2019 Energi Staff

This article was published by the National Energy Board on July 3, 2019. Pricing greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution is a key component of the pan-Canadian framework for clean growth and climate change; a policy framework established [Read more]

Alberta

Alberta methane regulations will fail to meet reduction target – environmental groups

December 17, 2018 Energi Staff

According to the Pembina Institute, the Alberta government fails to demonstrate how carbon price and methane regulations will achieve the GHG reductions needed to match federal rules. EDF.org photo. AB methane regulations weaker than federal [Read more] [Read more]

Markham on Energy

Why are the oil sands CEOs not at Energy Relaunch? Calgary Bubble needs new blood, new voices

October 24, 2018 Markham Hislop

Headliners at the Energy Relaunch conference Thursday in Calgary at the Metropolitan Conference Centre Energy Relaunch would benefit from more outward looking, forward thinking panelists – like the Alberta oil sands CEOs – instead of [Read more]

carbon dividends
Opinion

Opinion: How carbon dividends affect incentives (hint: they don’t)

October 23, 2018 Energi Staff

Carbon dividends maintain incentives to switch to lower-carbon goods because there’s a separation between what the carbon price costs you and the value of the dividends. How much the carbon price costs is tied to [Read more]

US energy
Opinion

Opinion: Game shows can explain complex US energy topics

October 4, 2018 Energi Staff

“Perhaps if those multifaceted US energy related issues were connected to popular game shows, we’d be well on our way to a more energy literate population”: Matt Chester.  NBC TV image. US energy issues can [Read more]

Markham on Energy

Notley needs new narrative for Alberta carbon tax, poll shows. She has plenty of stories to tell if she chooses to tell them

July 26, 2018 Markham Hislop

Carbon pricing will give oil sands producers competitive advantage in new markets, funds diversification into petrochemicals, basis of “carbon for pipelines” deal with Trudeau Yet another poll shows that Canadians hate carbon pricing – cap-and-trade, [Read more]

energy transitions
Opinion

Opinion: The importance of real-world policy packages to drive energy transition

July 9, 2018 Energi Staff

China is just one country, though a crucial one, pursuing sustainable energy transitions through a complex mixture of policies that cover multiple aspects of energy transition. VideoBlocks.com photo. This article was published in the International [Read more]

Markham on Energy

CAPP ‘four-point vision’ for energy development long on Trump, short on Canada

March 1, 2018 Markham Hislop

CAPP should focus on helping solve Canadian oil/gas industry’s biggest problem: lack of pipeline capacity On Monday, Canadian Big Oil released the first of seven “economic reports” outlining industry’s public policy issues and its “four-part [Read more]

pollution pricing
News

Canada, US West Coast could have pollution pricing in place by end of 2018

January 17, 2018 Energi Staff

Washington and Oregon states both have put forward pollution pricing plans to their legislatures for approval this year. BP photo. Pollution pricing already in place in California, British Columbia By the end of 2018, California, [Read more]

In the Spotlight

Alberta needs a Plan B

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

Oil finally has a competitor (electricity) Alberta already has a Plan A. It’s called the Emissions Reduction and Energy Development Plan. To understand how risky it is, you need to understand OPEC’s “Oil and Gas [Read more]

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