Rescuing the Frog Blog Archives

Facts matter

To whom is Jason Kenney selling a bill of goods on Energy East?

My thoughts on the UCP Climate Change Plan

The price of gas and the taste of crow

What can we learn from the church carbon tax fiasco?

The federal output-based carbon pricing system works because it’s not an exemption

The evolution of Alberta gas prices

All credible agencies?

Bill 12 - Problematic Legislation That Should Never Be Proclaimed

Western Canadian oil pricing

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Do Oil Spills Boost the Economy?

How Canada’s incoherence on climate is killing Keystone

Finite Resources and Infinite Growth

Can we dismiss this `economists only care about GDP' crap, once and for all?

Extraction vs Upgrading

Fort Hills tale of the tape

Chicken Wings and Beer

Carbon pricing is not a panacea

Transparency and Credibility

Common sense, sample selection, representative samples, and sample sizes

The Decline of Canadian (Academic) Economics?

Crude costs and Energy East

Marginal and average costs, and the price of bike commuting

Canada: Petrostate or not?

Reading the National Energy Program

The National Energy Program - A missed boom for the oil sands?

Energy security and Energy East

Energy East, again.

Value-added, externalities and eggs

CNRL incident(s) at Primrose

On Keystone XL and gas prices

Megantic and the BP Spill

Energy East

On bubbles of bitumen

ENMAX solar power - a different definition of affordable

Let’s make the right arguments on the EU FQD

Refine it where you mine it?

The #climate and GHG question I would have asked

Differential royalties for upgraded vs. non-upgraded bitumen

Your oilsands royalty primer

Questions I’ll be asking #abvote candidates

More on upgrading and refining in Alberta

When you fill up your tank, thank our “petrodollar”

On exchange rates and the importance of “net” exports

The ‘economics’ of upgrading

Molasses, the viscosity of “natural bitumen”, and the FQD

An economist pretending to be a geologist

What would it take for Eastern Canada to run on Western Canadian oil?

Forecasts are wrong, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore them

Local crude prices vs. local gas prices

Northern Gateway and Gas Prices

EIA’s import numbers

More EIA numbers

Canadian crude oil production to increase 3300% by 2100

Globe Article and Reader Comments

Some clarification please, Mr. Mulcair.

Canada’s climate challenge: 1 out of 3 ain’t good enough.

Why the Harper government’s decision on Kyoto is both correct and not surprising

Clarification on compliance and withdrawal

Keystone XL decision - more questions than answers.

Math Lesson #2: Life Cycle Assessments and Oilsands: don’t just say dirty oil, know what it means.

What should Canada’s position be on the EU and oilsands?

Keystone XL and US Energy Security - You can’t have it both ways.

Are you smarter than an energy 101 student at U of A?

Math lesson

New York Times Editorial on Keystone - Details Matter.

Thinking in terms of renovated bungalows, not megatons.

Globe and Mail Energy Policy Feature

If you’re talking jobs or GHGs, alternative scenarios matter

Alberta PC Leadership Q&A

Fort McMurray Mayor Melissa Blake on Ethical Oil

A clever hoax

Respect our park land - An open letter to the Edmonton District Soccer Association

NY Times story on Keystone XL

Keep Alberta Oil in the Ground

The AUC and Maxim Power: No steps forward, 3 steps back.

David Roberts and Stephen Gordon are saying almost the same thing about green jobs

Can green energy in Ontario avoid the same fate as Commodore?

Twice the offsets, half the credibility for the offset system

EEDC Oilsands Event Recap

Attn: Andrew Nikiforuk. If you’re going to make accusations, you should back them up.

Gas prices, fuel economy, electricity prices, etc.

Time for Minister Liepert to come down hard on TransCanada

On the potential for oilsands to add 200ppm of CO2 to the atmosphere

In defense of feed-in tariffs…just not this one.

Environmentalists and energy prices 2.0

Alberta needs to do more than tell Ottawa, “hands off the golden goose!"

My latest Economy Lab Post: Emissions: Peter Kent’s 178 millon-ton challenge

A discounted, domestic oil price would be bad policy for Alberta

High gas prices more likely due to oiligopoly than collusion

Gas prices: Who benefits from tax relief?

Post-election hiatus

On the NDP and budgets

On the gas price impact of NDP cap-and-trade

Tory platform’s dirty secret - my latest Economy Lab post

Are the NDP’s cap-and-trade numbers believable?

Oilsands debate in Edmonton Centre

My latest Economy Lab post

A question for the Green Party

Common sense on Keystone XL and GHGs

My top debate questions on energy and the environment

My Latest on the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab

More sophistication, please

My rant: we need more than billboards. now.

Liberals' significant climate plan cloaked in silence

Think the President supported your view of the oilsands?

My Economy Lab debut

on retrofit subsidies, tax credits, and other expensive policies

An evening with Jack

So, a guy walks into a gas station…

Time for an audit?

New Reclamation Guidelines (wonkish)

Time to come clean on CCS

A letter, and my reply

Reflections of an oil sands visionary

Globally credible GHG policy would help, not hurt, the oilsands

What can green energy advocates learn from the oilsands?

The strange relationship between environmentalists and the oil price

Something remarkable happened this week…but you probably missed it

When it comes to carbon pricing, you have to take the good with the oil sands.

The Tories bring their free market approach to climate policy

The Liberals' Cap(at what?)-and-(allocate to whom? and)-trade program