This week, the leaders of Mexico, Canada, and the United States met in Ottawa for the North American Leaders’ Summit. In their outcome statement on climate and energy, they committed to “phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies by 2025 and call on the other members of the G-20 to do the same.” Along with their … Read More
Canada
Big Oil’s “Long Twilight”
Big Oil’s twilight could happen faster than many have predicted.
Reaction: Kinder Morgan Pipeline proposal a recipe for climate disaster
Today’s decision does not mean the Kinder Morgan project will be built. The company faces an insurmountable wall of opposition in B.C.
“It continues to burn out of control”
The fire that the locals call “the beast” is back with a vengeance. Last week, the wildfire that ravaged parts of the tar sands town of Fort McMurray in Alberta seemed to have done its worst. But in recent days it has returned and headed to the tar sands camps north of the town, travelling at around 30-40 metres per second.
Trans Mountain pipeline is “final harpoon” for endangered killer whales
At the beginning of last week, environmentalists celebrated when the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, Kinder Morgan, pulled the plug on its controversial natural gas pipeline which had been proposed through parts of Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire, called NorthEast Energy Direct.
Fossils Fuels Could be Phased Out “Within 10 Years”
As the saying goes: the stone age did not end due to the lack of stones and the oil age will not end due to lack of oil. It will end due to climate change and the coming clean energy revolution.
A dangerous calculus
Have you ever stopped to think about the moments that we were on the brink of something big? Something that we look back on and find it hard to imagine how it used to be? Cell phones are a good example, or smart phones – the iPhone has only been around since 2007. The internet … Read More
Evidence shows new pipelines will not solve Alberta’s economic woes or support a clean energy transition
April 7, 2016 For Immediate Release New pipelines from the Alberta to tidewater would do nothing to help Canada’s oil industry cope with low oil prices. Contrary to assertions made by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers today and Natural Resources Minister Carr on Tuesday in interviews, there is no longer a sound economic argument … Read More
The Beginning of the End of the Tar Sands?
It’s a small simple chart which has a huge significance for Canada and the climate.
Don’t let fossil fuel subsidies undermine clean energy momentum in Canada
On Tuesday, Justin Trudeau’s government unveiled their first budget. There’s good news, and there’s bad news.