Saturday May 10, 2008
Latest Columns 
The big myth about Big Oil
Online Edition: Friday, May 9, 2008 06:00 AM
Largest U.S. producer doesn't even make world's top ten
The big myth about Big Oil
Published: Friday, May 9, 2008 12:00 AM Page B2
Quick quiz: Name the top three oil-producing countries in the world.For some reason, few people get this one right. The supplementary question is why? Could it be that popular mythologies make the correct answer appear impossibly wrong?
Cut your carbon footprint … take the car
Online Edition: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 06:00 AM
Auto travel may be less carbon intensive than walking
Cut your carbon footprint ... take the car
Published: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 12:00 AM Page B2
British environmentalist Chris Goodall asserted last year, in his provocative book How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, that driving your car to the supermarket could be better for the environment than walking there.
U.S. cleans air, Canada blows smoke
Online Edition: Friday, May 2, 2008 01:25 PM
U.S. could fully achieve GHG goal two years early
U.S. cleans air, Canada blows smoke
Published: Friday, May 2, 2008 12:00 AM Page B2
In 2006, the U.S. economy expanded at the real and robust rate of 2.9 per cent - a decent rate of growth for any advanced economy. Economic growth necessarily requires more consumption of energy, right? Economic growth necessarily requires more greenhouse gas emissions, right? Here's a quick QandA to test these environmental assumptions.
Climate policy frenzy leads nowhere
Online Edition: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 06:00 AM
Continental do-your-own-thing approach won't work
Climate policy frenzy leads nowhere
Published: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:00 AM Page B2
Torys, the eminent Toronto law firm, distributed a bulletin the other day that described the cross-border frenzy to develop carbon emissions policies across North America. Provinces are working with provinces. States are working with states. Provinces are working with states. Other states are working with other provinces. These partnerships, Torys notes, are frequently pursued independently of either federal government.
Condemned by the perversity of tariffs
Online Edition: Friday, April 25, 2008 06:00 AM
Emergency responses made food crisis worse – as government-decreed fixes often do
Condemned by the perversity of tariffs
Published: Friday, April 25, 2008 12:00 AM Page B2
In a report this month on the phenomenal increases in cereal prices around the world, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reviewed the emergency measures that different governments have taken ''to limit the impact on food consumption.'' The price increases had continued, the FAO grimly observed, despite these measures. But that's precisely the problem, isn't it? The emergency responses made things worse - as government-decreed fixes often do.
