Ottawa

As to the study of renewable energy projects funded by the government

Today’s meeting of the government operations and estimates committee commences at 3:30pm. Two witnesses are scheduled to testify, one of them someone by the name of Rahim Jaffer. No doubt a very informative and nuanced discussion of environmental policy and government subsidization will ensue.

If you should be so interested in such matters, the meeting will be televised online, the relevant links found here under the section marked “Meeting 11.”

There will probably be some degree of breathless play-by-play on the “Twitter.” And I, given my long-standing and oft-stated interest in the economics and public policy of renewable energy, will be by sometime after with a sober and reasoned sketch of the proceedings.

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