A hydrogen filling station. Photo by Alister Thorpe/Wikimedia Commons. Ongoing events in Europe, including the war in Ukraine and natural disasters, have raised many questions about the future of energy supply both in Canada and internationally. This, in turn, has placed Canada’s role as an energy supplier in doubt. If
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Canadian Dimension: Carbon capture and storage: a necessary evil?
Photo by Scott Butner/Flickr We are in the middle of an historic energy crisis. Recently, news headlines have been overwhelmed by commentaries on the price of energy across Europe resulting from the conflict raging in Ukraine. This has crowded out intelligent and critical discourse on addressing climate change and driving
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Trudeau’s 2030 climate plan looks for solutions in all the wrong places
Carbon capture, utilization and storage features heavily in the Trudeau government’s new climate plan, but critics question whether it represents another gift to to the oil and gas industry. Photo by Claudia Otte/Fotolia. On March 29, the Government of Canada released its new emissions reduction plan. The document is filled
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Canada’s SMR ‘Action Plan’ banks on private sector nuclear pipe dreams
Doel Nuclear Power Station, one of two nuclear power plants in Belgium. Photo by Frédéric Paulussen/Unsplash. For many kids who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, Star Trek was a big part of our childhoods. The series is filled with strange new worlds, futurist politics, and advanced technology that
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The environmental vaccine: how COVID-19 opens the door to a Green New Deal
“Growing Strong Together”. Artwork by Sarah Bloom/Creative Action Network. We live in an era of overlapping crises: climate change, global inequality, the rise of the far-right, nuclear proliferation, and now, COVID-19. As I write this, governments worldwide continue to be paralyzed in the face of desperate demands to respond effectively
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