  Media Release - How Biofuels are Damaging The EnvironmentThe Frontier Centre released today a paper entitled The Green Plague: How Biofuels Are Damaging the Environment which examines some of the unintended consequences of large-scale biofuel production and, specifically, its impact on the natural environment. Governments in many economically advanced countries heavily subsidize the production of biofuels. The justification of such subsidies is often that biofuels are a comparatively “green” source of energy. However, the evidence suggests that biofuels may in fact create significant environmental problems. At the very least, the research referred to in this paper should give governments pause before they continue to use taxpayer money to fund their environmentally destructive biofuel pipe dreams. |
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 Cap and Trade is a Flawed Approach to Dealing with Climate ChangeA widely-recommended proposal for reducing carbon emissions in Canada is a system known as “cap and trade.” The idea is to reduce emissions by making it more expensive for firms to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. But the evidence strongly suggests that cap-and-trade plans that have been tried, in Europe are not very effective. (~2 min) Join us weekly across the prairies for our hard hitting policy commentary broadcast across the Goldenwest Radio Network - Click here for a list of 14 stations and broadcast times. |
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Latest PublicationsTime to Terminate Big Wind Subsidies— May 9, 2012Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they’d had enough. The Green Plague— May 4, 2012Frontier Centre Intern Eric Merkley argues that the subsidization of biofuel production has unintended consequences which harm the natural environment. Media Release - How Biofuels are Damaging The Environment— May 4, 2012Frontier's Eric Merkley argues that increased biofuel production can have negative consequences for the environment, including harm to water quality. Re - 'Wildrose Proves Too Wild', April 25— May 3, 2012"Danielle Smith’s statement that "the science isn't settled" on climate change was correct—scientifically. It should have been correct politically as well since it is a centrist position, respecting people on both sides of the very real and intense debate about the causes of climate change." 17 Reasons to be Cheerful— April 23, 2012April's Reader's Digest carries an article based on excerpts from my book and an interview with me: "The world has never been a better place to live in," says science writer Matt Ridley, "and it will keep on getting better." Eco Hypothesis Faulty— April 5, 2012While reducing energy consumption to conserve natural resources, reduce pollution and save money is a worthwhile activity and something all sensible people support, Earth Hour is not based on these goals. |
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