Preparing for the Final Boom

Here is another guest post but Richard Schneider who will be at Reboot Alberta PREPARING FOR THE FINAL BOOM  Since the advent of big oil, boom and bust cycles have been a fact of life in Alberta. Consequently, Albertans face the current economic crisis with a quiet resolve born of the knowledge that, soon enough, another [...]

Has the IPCC Head Offered a Simple and Wrong-Headed Solution to Canada’s GHG Lethargy?

To every complex problem there is always a simple answer that is wrong.  The recent call by the Head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)is reported to be calling for Canada to “consider closing down Oilsands projects in northern Alberta” is an example of a seemingly simple but wrong-headed answer to a complex [...]