On March 25th, the Supreme Court of Canada declared the federal carbon pricing scheme to be constitutional: the federal government has the legal right to impose it on provinces, such as Saskatchewan, which have not developed their own scheme. While carbon pricing is just one of the measures that we need to address the climate... Continue Reading →
Interim response to the provincial government’s “climate strategy”
On Monday (Dec 4, 2017), Environment Minister Dustin Duncan announced the Saskatchewan government’s much-awaited climate strategy, entitled “Prairie Resilience”. We find it something of an anticlimax – a remix of old ideas with no truly new initiatives. There are some positive elements within it, but for the most part it demonstrates a distressing lack of... Continue Reading →
The Saskatchewan White Paper on Climate Change
Last week (on Oct. 18, 2016) Brad Wall at last announced his climate policy... sort of. It turns out that there is nothing new in the White Paper as regards actual policy - but there are some new twists in the demands that he is making of the federal government. It is encouraging to see... Continue Reading →