January 2019
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 [...]
December 2018
Press Is the Enemy of Climate
Press Is the Enemy of ClimateIt’s easier to tell a story of good vs. evil than to understand the science. See Article
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 [...]
One in four households living in energy poverty in Ireland
Thought Piece First, I noticed the gut-wrenching headline about the “worst winter in 42 years,” with 48,000 Brits dying this last winter. Now, we find out that 1 in 4 people in Ireland endured energy [...]
November 2018
A Tale of Two New Yorks
Thought Piece First, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio have had a misguided understanding of economic empowerment and a big city arrogance. Given the rural poverty found upstate New York and the plight [...]