
This is a guest post by Cameron Fenton, Canadian Tar Sands Organizer with 350.org.
This week, the cover of the Economist proclaimed “the fall in the price of oil and gas provides a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix bad energy policies.” The article teased on the cover explains how low oil prices create the space for governments to make rapid leaps to change energy policy instead of “tinkering at the edges” urging policy makers to use this moment to “inject some coherence into the world’s energy policies.”
The article gets a lot of things right. Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and (Read more…)