The Reason Renewables Can’t Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To
Thought Piece We owe Max Brod. After promising his dear friend Franz Kafka (who was on his death bed) that he wouldn't publish his writing, Max Brod waited for almost a decade before publishing all [...]
New Nature Study Affirms the Climate Benefits of Increased Natural Gas Use
Thought Piece New "Nature Magazine" published Study affirms the Climate Benefits of Increased Natural Gas Use The “seminal” piece by Naomi Oreskes, “Merchants of Doubt,” and the “Indirect Health Benefits Study” will certainly be historical [...]
Why I Don’t “Believe” in “Science”
Thought Piece Why I don't "believe" in today's environmental activism. And, why I don't believe much in the agitprop from the Big Green Machine. "After billions and billions of dollars spent on environmental activism, the [...]
Kenney building ‘war room’ to counter environmental groups, negative media coverage of Alberta’s oil industry
Thought Piece To quote the ubiquitous Anonymous: “Environmental activism does not destroy things, but rather it inexhaustibly prevents them from ever coming into being.” It is time for Canada to have an updated discussion about [...]
Bill Gates Slams Unreliable Wind & Solar: ‘Let’s Quit Jerking Around With Renewables & Batteries’
Thought Piece Unsurprisingly, the following interview got no media coverage. By the way, Bill Gates has little or no skin in the renewables and battery sector, plus he isn’t singing from the Green Tabernacle Choir [...]
TIPRO 2019 STATE OF ENERGY REPORT
Thought Piece For anyone who wants to put the economics back into economic development, this 2019 TIPRO Report is very timely. I especially like the Methodology Section. Too many reports and reporters provide scant [...]
Gas Shortages Give New York an Early Taste of the Green New Deal
Thought Piece Here is a great Op-Ed piece by friend Robert Bryce. In complete disbelief, Robert writes about the mostly officious energy policy of New York. How can urban politicians set a course for destruction, [...]
Infrastructure Lost: Why America Cannot Afford to “Keep It In the Ground”
Thought Piece First and foremost, the “Keep It In The Ground” has only one “accomplishment,” which is keeping over $91 billion of energy infrastructure from being built or replaced (with both new and upgraded technology). [...]
What the Green New Deal will do to our family
Thought Piece Here is a new piece by ally Greg Wrightstone, entitled “What the Green New Deal will do to our family,” that has just appeared in the American Thinker. Beneath the Jonathon Swift-like satire, [...]
Energy & Environmental Newsletter: January 7, 2019
Thought Piece As a lifelong private sector advocate, I have been an active witness to several states (like Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Pennsylvania, North Dakota), who are endowed with vast amounts of unconventional oil and [...]
Canada Appeases NGOs As Rural and Indigenous Peoples Suffer
Thanks to the gentle editing of Tom Shepstone, I discuss a puzzling, uneconomic situation that is unfolding in Canada, although large parts of the world have much the same problem. While governments and heavily populated [...]
Canada’s oil and natural gas industry and Indigenous peoples work toward shared prosperity: CAPP Report
Thought Piece First, there are some overlooked facts about Canada: It is the second largest country in the world; it has a population of 36.3 million (or 1/10 of the US); it is the 4th [...]