Oil industry bears brunt of blame for global warming

Keith Bryer|Published

The energy industry is under relentless siege as the global warming blame game heats up, writes Keith Bryer.

‘Apprenticeships vital for economic growth’

Keith Bryer|Published

Much rests on the revival of apprenticeships, and not only in terms of youth employment writes Keith Bryer.

The end is not nigh for oil

Keith Bryer|Published

The prophets of doom tend to forget that humans are infinitely adaptable, writes Keith Bryer.

Cutting bureaucrats is easier for bosses than for politicians

Keith Bryer|Published

Reducing the number of civil servants anywhere is no easy thing, writes Keith Bryer.

The muddy waters of Chevron refuse to clear

Keith Bryer|Published

If disgruntled dealers do mount a class action against Caltex, it will probably centre on the minutiae of the contracts they signed over the years, writes Keith ...

Improve the balance sheet or hurt small firms?

Keith Bryer|Published

You can do business the brutal way or the decent way. Keith Bryer reflects on the dilemma of morals versus profit.

Why Florida flourished after dumping income tax

Keith Bryer|Published

Florida’s successful method of creating jobs for its citizens cannot be ignored, writes Keith Bryer.

Economics will trump CO2 reduction in China

Keith Bryer|Published

The Paris climate treaty is just hot air as China eats up more fossil fuels, writes Keith Bryer.

Is there room for politicised trade unions?

Keith Bryer|Published

The negatives of trade unions in South Africa outnumber the positives, writes Keith Bryer.

Legalising hemp plants fights poverty

Keith Bryer|Published

Anyone serious about alleviating poverty in SA might consider hemp, the non-drug kind.

Is morality really so foreign to profit-making?

Keith Bryer|Published

Attacks on the economics of free enterprise (that successful way of improving the lot of human beings that pre-dates the abject failure of socialism by millennia) ...

Environmental and economic critiques are based on envy

Keith Bryer|Published

All that the fashionable alarm about globalisation, warming the planet, changing climate, protecting wild nature, have in common is an attack on an economic system ...

Marketing genius of organic foods unwrapped

Keith Bryer|Published

If marketing is the art of persuading consumers to buy things, then the initial promoters of “organic” foods – all amateurs with little or no marketing experience ...

Opposing wind generators is not anti-green

Keith Bryer|Published

The intolerance of dissenting views by the Green Lobby is an unpleasant aspect of some of its members.

Eskom’s deficiency in forward thinking makes oil firms rich

Keith Bryer|Published

If ever there was a cast-iron argument for a new nuclear power station, it is the news of what it is costing Eskom (and, therefore, all electricity consumers) to ...

Amcu is standing to lose after strike

Keith Bryer|Published

The head of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), Joseph Mathunjwa, is to write to Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) about reports that the ...

Anti-nuke campaigners never let facts intrude on a good tale

Keith Bryer|Published

Ever since the Nazis proved it, it has been an axiom of propagandists that it does not matter what you say as long as you say it loudly and often. Follow this simple ...

No reliable A-bomb with thorium reactors

Keith Bryer|Published

You cannot make a reliable atomic bomb with the waste from a thorium reactor. They tried to do it during the Cold War but dropped the idea when it proved difficult ...

Perhaps small is beautiful enough for nuclear power

Keith Bryer|Published

If EF Schumacher was right and “Small is beautiful”, what would he have made of the mini-nuclear power stations being developed in the US, especially now that Bill ...

Is fracking fantastic or just flipping foolish?

Keith Bryer|Published

Almost everyone says fracking for oil and gas in shale is a game changer and its resultant cheap, abundant energy will fundamentally alter the world economy, dependent ...

Graphene will change just about everything

Keith Bryer|Published

Technology has been under attack for years. It is no longer seen as the vanguard of progress, but as its nemesis. The fault is the general assault on free markets ...

‘Freds’ could put unions out of work

Keith Bryer|Published

While South African trade unions tear themselves apart, toyi-toyi against toll roads and believe in an archaic form of economic thinking, human ingenuity is busy ...

Myths obscure the green credentials of nuclear power

Keith Bryer|Published

A few years back when James Lovelock came out in favour of nuclear energy, the wailing and gnashing of teeth among environmentalists was something to behold. It ...

Union rank and file bear the brunt of strike costs

Keith Bryer|Published

Much has been made of the total costs of strikes and the damage they do to the economy. Huge numbers equating to lost production are put forward, but very little ...