The home energy management (HEM) market continues to attract attention, especially with the increasing presence of newer stakeholders like broadband service providers (e.g., Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast) and security companies (e.g., ADT and Vivint). However, the products and services that constitute the HEM market continue to struggle for more traction.
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The Common Sense Canadian: Colorado fracking flood raises deeper issues – like extreme energy, endless growth
The aftermath of Colorado’s recent flood in heavily fracked Weld County (David Lavallee) by David Lavallee I first heard about the flood that left the Colorado fracking industry underwater by way of a story on The Common Sense Canadian. I happened to be in neighboring Utah on a shoot for
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Residents remain out of homes after CN oil train derailment
Alberta firefighters on the scene of a burning oil train wreck (Dan Reidlhuber/Reuters) STONY PLAIN, Alta. – Residents of a tiny Alberta community near the site of a train derailment remained out of their homes for third day as CN Rail struggled to get the upper hand on a fire
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Risks to Democracy from Harper’s Pipeline Agenda (Vancouver – Oct.22)
Townhall Meeting: Risks to Democracy from Harper’s Pipeline Agenda ForestEthics Advocacy is hosting a forum in Vancouver tonight (7 PM – Marpole Place Neighborhood House) to discuss what Tar Sands Campaign Director Ben West refers to as Stephen Harper’s “systematic attack on environmental regulations and public participation in consultation processes, and …undermining if
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: NB group questions RCMP tactics in breaking up fracking protest
MONCTON, N.B. – A group opposed to shale gas development in New Brunswick is raising questions about the RCMP’s enforcement of an injunction against protesters last week in the province. Jim Emberger of the New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance says the Mounties should be asked about the authorization, timing and
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Vancouver rally for Elsipogtog all about unity
Empowering words from wide range of speakers at this Oct. 18 Vancouver rally in support of the Elsipogtog First Nations’s fracking protest. Sundance Chief Rueben George, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, recent law school graduate Caleb Behn and a representative of the Canadian Association of University Teachers were among the leaders
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Fracking’s impacts on Alberta farming families: Lost hair, dead cows
Photo: Damien Gillis Read this Oct. 21 feature from TheTyee.ca, examining the real world impacts of shale oil fracking on farming families in Alberta. Nielle and Howard Hawkwood do not welcome the west wind at their 40-year-old cattle ranch just north of Cochrane in the foothills of the Rockies anymore.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Kinder Morgan president: Harper’s heavy-handed tactics hampering pipelines
Kinder Morgan Canada President Ian Anderson at a Vancouver Board of Trade talk (photo: Kinder Morgan) Read this Oct. 17 story from The Vancouver Observer on comments made by Kinder Morgan Canada President Ian Anderson to a business crowd in Calagary, criticizing the Harper government’s ham-fisted intervention in pipeline politics. Ian Anderson, speaking in
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Koch Brothers could make $100 Billion from Keystone XL pipeline
American oil billionaires David and Charles Koch A new study released today concludes that Koch Industries and its subsidiaries stand to make as much as $100 billion in profits if the controversial Keystone XL pipeline is given the go-ahead by U.S. President Obama. The report, titled Billionaires’ Carbon Bomb, and produced
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Breaking: Judge lifts injunction against Elsipogtog fracking protest
photo: Jen Choi/CBC New Brunswick Justice George Rideout declined today to extend an injunction against members of the Elsipogtog First Nation who have been protesting exploratory activities for fracking on their territory. A video posted on facebook following today’s hearing shows several Mi’kmaq people, having just exited the courtroom, rejoicing over the judge’s
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Elsipogtog First Nation vows to continue fracking battle
Elsipogtog First Nation Chief Arren Sock with supporters (Miles Howe/Halifax Media Coop) REXTON, N.B. – The chief of the Elsipogtog (ell-see-book-took) First Nation in New Brunswick is criticizing the RCMP for its conduct last week in controlling a protest against shale gas exploration, promising his community will continue to oppose
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Final day of Enbridge Line 9 hearings cancelled for ‘security concerns’
Protestors at Line 9 hearing in Montreal last week (photo: Erin Sparks) TORONTO – The final day of hearings on a proposal to reverse the flow of a pipeline that runs between southern Ontario and Montreal were cancelled Saturday due to security concerns. But that didn’t deter dozens of protesters
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Grand Chief: Unite in face of Elsipogtog, Harper’s ‘War on Mother Earth’
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip called for unity in the face of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “War on Mother Earth” at a Vancouver rally this past Friday – connected to the Elsipogtog people’s protests against fracking in New Brunswick. The Vancouver rally was one of dozens across the country and
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Elsipogtog community meets over fracking protest
Members of the Elsipogtog Nation and RCMP clash at a recent protest over fracking in New Brunswick REXTON, N.B. – Hundreds of people gathered at a community hall in New Brunswick on Sunday to discuss their opposition of the development of a shale gas sector in the province as their
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Explosion, flames as CN oil train derails in Alberta
Alberta firefighters on the scene of a burning oil train wreck (Dan Reidlhuber/Reuters) GAINFORD, Alta. – Firefighters who were battling a major blaze Saturday after a CN tanker train derailed west of Edmonton have decided to withdraw and wait for the flames to burn themselves out. Jackie Ostashek, a spokeswoman
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Is Elsipogtog the spark that will light the fracking fire?
A Vancouver protest in sympathy with the Elsipogtog First Nation (Damien Gillis) Yesterday, Canadian Ministers were attending the World Energy Congress, delivering keynote speeches. BC Minister of Natural gas non-disclosure, Rich Coleman, was in attendance, amidst negotiations for one of the world’s largest energy deals – destined to frack northeast of
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: RCMP clash with Mi’kmaq fracking protestors: Who provoked whom?
photo: Jen Choi/CBC They may call themselves the Mi’kmaq Warrior Society, but from all indications, this group of indigenous peoples was leading a peaceful protest against fracking in their territory when a platoon of heavily-armed, camouflaged RCMP officers descended upon their camp in Rexton, New Brunswick, early this morning. The officers were
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Fracking protestors clash with police in New Bruswick
Two vehicles burn near a fracking protest in Rexton, N.B. (Courtesy of Gilles Boudreau) Read this breaking news story from CBC.ca on today’s clash between fracking protestors and police in New Brunswick. Shale gas protesters and RCMP trying to enforce an injunction are clashing in Rexton, N.B., with the violence including two police
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Fix is in on Enbridge as Clark and Redford put on show
BC and Alberta Premiers Christy Clark and Alison Redford (CP photo) I assure you that his will not take long. We’ve been screwed, blued and tattooed folks. You may have read the story last week that First Nations have charged that the Enbridge pipeline has already started. At the same
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Harper’s Keystone XL lobbying trip funded by $65,000 in tax dollars
by Carol Linnitt – Originally posted on DeSmog Canada The hotel rental for Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s September visit to New York City cost Canadian taxpayers a total of $56,582.91, according to documents recently released by CTV News. “Canada and the U.S. are making important progress on enhancing trade, travel and
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