Ian Urquhart
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Ian Urquhart
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About Ian Urquhart
Ian Urquhart is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Alberta. His teaching and research there focused on the political economy of natural resource exploitation and climate change. His 2018 book Costly Fix: Power, Politics, and Nature in the Tar Sands was short-listed for the Canadian Political Science Association’s Donald V. Smiley prize.
Canada needs to tell us the truth
Thanks to Bill C-59, corporate claims about the good their businesses do for the climate now may be reviewed. But what about governments? Do they greenwash, too?
B.C.’s fire prevention budget will quickly go up in flames
Over the last 10 years, the average annual wildfire fighting bill has been $498 million, more than twice the amount laid out in the government's budget.
Government should prep for fires given low snowpack
With four spectacularly destructive wildfire seasons in the last seven years, B.C. has become a global wildfire hot spot.
Ideology blocks renewable energy growth in Alberta
Premier Danielle Smith’s challenge to the renewables revolution flies in the face of core contemporary conservative beliefs, such as deregulation and letting markets decide where investments should be made.
Smith is snowing Albertans on renewables
Disinformation, like Premier Danielle Smith’s enthusiasm for natural gas, powers her government’s perspective on generating electricity, writes University of Alberta professor emeritus of political science Ian Urquhart.