It will cost up to an estimated $37.7 billion annually for Canada to move from coal to renewables.
wind energy
March 11, 2021
9:38AM
Government support for renewables in Canada will leave power grids more susceptible to blackouts.
August 13, 2019
3:10PM
Job losses attributed to rising electricity costs outweigh the jobs created in the renewable energy sector.
July 30, 2019
1:00AM
June 1, 2017
5:00AM
Canada’s non-hydro renewables start from a very low baseline of both capacity and generation.
January 18, 2017
1:22PM
Affordable energy is to the economy what oxygen is to the human body.
April 25, 2015
6:00AM
BC Hydro’s planned project for a hydroelectric dam on the Peace River—known as the Site C dam—is proving to be controversial, with some industry groups panning the plan while touting renewable energy sources such as wind.
November 13, 2014
9:00AM
On October 30 we published a Fraser Institute study entitled “What Goes Up… Ontario’s Soaring Electricity Prices and How to Get Them Down.”
April 28, 2013
2:00AM
Earlier this month the Fraser Institute published a report sharply critical of one of the flagship policies of the Ontario government, namely the Ontario Green Energy Act (GEA). We found that the Act is costing Ontario over $5 billion annually but yields negligible environmental benefits, and that equivalent or greater benefits could have been achieved using conventional pollution control measures at less than one-tenth the cost.