Category Archives: Energy

European Fuel Poverty Coming to Manitoba?

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Publius

Presently, roughly 30 percent of Manitoba households are considered to be lower income, what will the percentage of lower income households be if and when the average monthly electricity bill (for homes heated by electricity) closes in on $500? Continue reading →

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Complete Surrender

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Publius

Over the space of two days late last week, the prior good reputation of Manitoba’s Public Utilities Board (PUB) was soiled and lost, perhaps forever.  Unfortunately, Manitobans have not only lost a check on Manitoba’s government-owned monopolies, but will have … Continue reading →

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Kudos to Environment Minister Peter Kent for giving Canadians a climate scare-free Earth Day

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Tom Harris

Happily, and perhaps unexpectedly, Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent resisted the temptation to associate his Earth Day speech with the climate scare. In an announcement that included nothing at all about climate, global warming, greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide, Kent and his Alberta counter-part Diana McQueen instead discussed a practical, science-based plan to enhance public access to real pollution data from the oilsands.

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Show Trial on the Red

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Publius

Manitoba Public Utilities Review may not be all that it appears Continue reading →

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Former Shell CEO on Keystone XL

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Peter McCaffrey

Former Shell Oil President John Hofmeister says the Obama administration will eventually approve the Keystone XL pipeline but politics has held up a decision. Continue reading →

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Overconfidence: the Achilles heel of global warming alarmists

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Tom Harris

What Canada 2020 panelists and organizers seem to not understand is that all planning for the future involves sensible risk assessment. This includes considering, not just the possible impacts of climate change, but also the likelihood of them actually coming about. And that means dealing with uncertainties. Lecturing Canadians about fictional global warming certainty when future climate states are anything but certain, does us all a disservice and, in the long run will sway no one not already committed to the scare.
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Some free advice for delegates to the upcoming NDP convention

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Joseph Quesnel

NDP delegates at an upcoming national convention in Montreal should more closely follow the model of social democratic parties of Scandanavia in adopting pro-market, modern policies. Continue reading →

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Canadian government joins Alberta premier in climate change/pipeline fantasy lobbying

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Tom Harris

This week Americans witnessed the bizarre spectacle of a Canadian government minister and a provincial premier promoting several impossible things at the same time. Continue reading →

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Halcyon Days

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Publius

These are not Hydro’s halcyon days, nor the Province’s, nor the population’s, far from it. Continue reading →

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Auditor General, Absence Missed

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Publius

The Auditor General would perform a valuable public service by announcing and commencing a thorough investigation and ‘value for money’ audit of Hydro’s plans and actions. Continue reading →

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Hydro Ratepayers To Pick Up Another Tab

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Publius

It is becoming more and more obvious that the government realizes (at least at some level) that it may have wasted hundreds of millions, perhaps a billion or more, on a plan that was conceived before ‘the Utility’s world changed” and is no longer sound (if it ever was). Continue reading →

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Media bamboozled into promoting another climate scare story

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Tom Harris

The new scientific paper “A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years” attempted to show that twentieth century “global temperature” rise was unusual when seen in the context of the period since the end of the last glacial. But their research demonstrated no such thing. In fact, it was not even possible for the researchers to come to such a conclusion, based on the data they collected and the computational methods they employed. Continue reading →

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