RBC's 'locavore' activists want us to buy Valentine roses grown locally. Only problem: There aren't any
It’s so much easier to suggest that a critic is 'bananas' than to respond to his substantive points
https://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-a-challenge-to-mark-carney-lets-talk-it-out
Like the word 'social,' 'sustainable' tends to vitiate or reverse the meaning of words to which it is attached. Thus 'sustainable' development is development retarded by top-down control
https://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-sustainable-newspeak-by-2050
Climate penance is now the price of being allowed to do business
https://financialpost.com/opinion/2020-hindsight-peter-foster-amazons-year-up-stakeholder-creek
Sorry folks, the world will still be overwhelmingly fossil-fuelled in 2030
https://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-the-ieas-solar-spin-cycle
This week the Global Warming Policy Forum will publish a collection of just over a hundred pieces I wrote for FP Comment between 1998 and 2019
The most baseless of cases — especially if they involve the words 'Indigenous' and 'environment' — can tie up business for years
It is a key weapon in the supposedly inevitable 'transition to a low-carbon economy.' As such it represents a particular threat to Canada
What brand of sado-masochism would lead Albertans to give 'a rock star welcome' to the man significantly responsible for the desperate state of the Canadian oil industry?
Forcing the adoption of expensive and unreliable energy destroys jobs (see Alberta) and exacerbates poverty in poor countries
PG&E has been the very model of climate concern. Fat lot of good it seems to have done them
If anybody wants to cite government success in promoting energy innovation, then a balanced perspective should also cite its myriad failures
This report should be profoundly embarrassing to the government of Justin Trudeau
The conference seems to represent what might be described as ‘post-normal law.’ It is the law of taking sides
If one of the objectives of the new Post was to get rid of the Liberal government, I had solid credentials
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A large portion of opposition to Trans Mountain is being funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant
The latest Ontario finding acknowledges that the assault on Chevron was an attempt to do an end run around the U.S. court system while skirting Canadian law
Apparently poor people should not be allowed development — for their own good
Enright kept the hopeful questions coming: Was Communism tried in the wrong country? Was it betrayed? Was it a good idea that went wrong?
Peter Foster: The crucial questions about climate change are: How much impact does it have, and what if anything should be done about it
The U.S. was a problem for the green global governors because of that picky Constitution
Peter Foster: Enbridge has reaped the fruits of appeasement. Chevron may have been attacked for asserting its legal rights, but it dared to assert them
Peter Foster: And the Nobel prize for economics goes to ... more excuses for Big Government interference
Apparently there is one group that should under no circumstances be celebrated: 'rich white guys'
When you're invited to join conversations, too often this means stepping into a social media echo chamber
Governments, in particular left-liberal governments, are congenitally incapable of sticking to one clear policy target
Peter Foster: Canada’s NEB expands its review of the Energy East pipeline proposal, while U.S. limited partnership Energy Transfer Equity files a racketeering lawsuit against Greenpeace and oth...
https://financialpost.com/opinion/mixed-results-for-the-eco-mob
First Stephen Hawking warned earth would be the new Venus, complete with sulphuric rainstorms; now Neil DeGrasse Tyson has joined the climate deranged
https://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-climate-crusaders-have-got-lost-in-space
Critics are obsessing about material inequality and ignoring the improving situation of the poorest people in society
https://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-growing-inequality-might-actually-be-a-good-thing
An Inconvenient Sequel is basically a rehash. One significant development is that Gore's trained thousands to spread the Gorespel of climate scientology
When did economics become the New Astrology? That might explain a breathless warning from the Schulich School of Business to beware Aug. 21 as a bad day for stock markets
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society peddles the notion that nature 'needs' 50% of lands and waters to be put off limits if she is to survive
http://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-protecting-canadians-from-fake-eco-news
Greenpeace has for years been harassing Resolute Forest Products as a “Forest Destroyer.” Last year, Resolute CEO Richard Garneau brought a suit against Greenpeace in the U.S. Since then, the...
The CBFA was nothing less than an attempt by U.S.-funded groups to seize control of Canadian environmental policy
As in the great days of buccaneering, however, we have to remember that one man’s pirate is another man’s freedom fighter cum state representative
http://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-there-goes-the-plunder-for-the-pirates-of-chevron
The other day, a motley group of 60 business and 'civil society' leaders signed an open letter
The UN official expects reporters to hold politicians to account for following its agenda, not question it
We always have to be careful of creating martyrs, but tolerance must have its limits, and surely one is the point at which free speech turns into terrorism
http://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-eco-radicals-scoff-at-the-law-and-the-law-surrenders
Nothing Canada does could make more than the most micro-marginal difference to the global temperature
http://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-the-counterfeit-conservativism-of-carbon-taxers
The notion that every corporate shakedown on earth might wash up in Canada, could bring Canada’s legal system to a halt, not to mention into disrepute
For those who want to kill the fossil fuel industry, China’s totalitarianism isn’t the enemy — it’s the model
ENGOs that aren’t part of the agreement are still intent on closing down the oil sands
The Canadian justice system now appears to be the last hope for the rancid US$9.5 billion claim for environmental damage against Chevron
http://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-up-the-amazon-without-a-legal-paddle
Economic growth and social outcomes tend to decline when government spending surpasses 30 per cent of GDP
http://financialpost.com/opinion/peter-foster-the-carbon-tax-debate-is-about-the-size-of-government
Free markets are always in the process of transition due to innovation and ingenuity, but the low-carbon transition is to be forced
An economist should know the difference between a market price and a tax
Let’s forget science and logic and get with the main purpose of the program — more, and more complex, policy
Peter Foster: The additional threat for the Canadian oil industry in 2016 is that Trudeau's Liberal government may actually follow through with with some form of additional carbon tax
The T Rex in the catastrophist lab is the assumption that impending disaster implies clear managerial polices
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2014/03/20/peter-foster-man-as-killer-asteroid