Can hydrogen solve Canada’s energy woes?
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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,…