Canada

    False Sense of (Energy) Security

    By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  August 18th at 01:17 PM  | 

    Superficially, it would seem that the nation is successfully pursuing the Obama Administration’s stated energy goals of “increasing domestic oil production” and “reducing our dependence on foreign oil.” Domestic oil production has increased, but in spite of and not because of Administration policies. And while our overall oil import demand has declined, our imports from the Persian Gulf states, and Saudi Arabia in particular, have | Read More »

    Canada to Kyoto: ‘Sayonara!’

    By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  December 13th at 12:06 AM  | 

    On Monday, Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent announced that his country would exercise its legal option to end its participation in the Kyoto Protocols. The Protocols were a United Nations initiative, adopted in 1997 with a goal of rolling carbon dioxide emissions back to 1990 levels in an effort to stop Global Warming. Failure to meet those goals would incur stiff monetary penalties. Canada will | Read More »

    Canada: Threat or Menace?

    By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  June 10th at 06:30 PM  | 

    The Daily Show looks at America’s #1 source of imported oil, Canada. Open thread.