Environmental permitting now causes more environmental harm than it prevents, because what it delays is the clean thing replacing the dirty one.

Drawn from what Casey Handmer said

infrastructure Building the large physical things -- reservoirs, roads, pipelines -- and why some countries have stopped being able to.

permitting The review a project must pass before it can be built, and the argument that it now blocks more than it protects.

On the topicCan a rich country still build things?under our view: Permission and litigation are what stop a project, not money

A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

What Casey Handmer actually said

Word for word, with the source under each one. They did not write this page.

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In tension with

Free markets alone cannot solve environmental and energy problems; legislation, regulation, and taxation are also necessary.

MacKay treats regulation as part of the answer. Handmer says environmental protection regulation is now the primary driver of avoidable pollution, because what it delays is the clean thing replacing the dirty one. Both can hold if the regulation MacKay wants is not the regulation Handmer is describing, and nobody has said which is which.
In tension with

The bureaucracy around clinical trials is Chesterton's Fence: it was built on the harm done by sloppier trials and should not be pulled down without knowing why it went up.

Lowe says the bureaucracy around clinical trials is Chesterton fence: it was built on the harm done by sloppier practice, and the harm is why it is there. Handmer says environmental permitting now causes more environmental harm than it prevents, because what it delays is the clean thing replacing the dirty one. Two review regimes, the same argument shape, opposite verdicts -- and neither man has looked at the other one field.

Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.