Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threaten to tear up NAFTA, arguing – correctly – that high U.S. environmental standards place U.S. workers at a disadvantage in America's trading relations with Canada and Mexico.

Canadians have good reason to be concerned. The U.S. does have higher environmental standards. Canada is vulnerable in a renegotiation of NAFTA.  Full story »

Faced with the undeniable reality of "Hubbard's Peak" in global conventional oil supplies, the world's largest multinational energy corporations are now hell-bent on squeezing oil out of tar in northern Alberta, like junkies desperately conniving for one last giant fix in a futile attempt to quench America's insatiable "addiction to oil" (described so eloquently by President George Bush II). Along the Athabasca River near Fort McMurray, a sub-arctic town almost 1,000 kilometres north of the U.S.  Full story »

Environmentalists were once inspired agents of change. They invented and popularized novel technologies such as the renewable energy and recycling systems that have so captured the public's imagination. They developed theories about the merits of small-scale, decentralized systems – E.F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful of 1973 was only one of hundreds of titles that advanced our understanding of the nature of economies.  Full story »

Four environmental groups and four resource companies yesterday endorsed the giveaway of half of Canada's great boreal forests to industrial interests. The CEOs of the resource companies deserve credit, of sorts, for actions designed to enrich their shareholders. The CEOs of the environmental groups deserve only censure.  Full story »

THE REAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS: WHY POVERTY, NOT AFFLUENCE, IS THE ENVIRONMENT'S NUMBER ONE ENEMY

by Jack M. Hollander

University of California Press

235 pages, $40.95

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This article is a response to a letter by Scott Vaughan

The Carnegie Endowment's Scott Vaughan chose an apt example by invoking Indira Gandhi's memorable speech in Stockholm at the 1972 UN Conference on Human Environment. "Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?" Mrs. Gandhi said famously, in arguing that the environment should take a back seat to the economy.  Full story »

It's NAFTA's 10th anniversary and what a great decade for the environment it's been. Sulphur dioxide emissions are down, ground level ozone levels are down, inhalable airborne particle levels are down and energy efficiency is up. Our air is clearer, our water is cleaner and, as a by-product, we're healthier, too.  Full story »

Only a Toronto-based, left-leaning, corporate-hating

. . . globalization-conspiracy theorist like Lawrence Solomon could come up with the strange and twisted logic used to justify forest land privatization in parts of Canada which he clearly has never visited (Natural Value, March 26).  Full story »