Dilbit Dogma: On Pipelines to Tidewater
Friday, April 15, 2016 According to pipeline supporters and cheerleaders, one of the primary ratio...
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Emission Omission: Canadian government plans to assess only some pipeline greenhouse gases
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 The Canadian government wants to know what you think about its plans to co...
Ontario Converting Coal Plant to Solar Farm
A few years ago Ontario stopped all of its coal powered plants because, you know, climate change and all that. Other jurisdictions around the world are similarly halting the use…
BC Hydro’s primary construction – fabricating falsehoods
Derrick Penner of the Vancouver Sun reported words from the Chief of BC Hydro's nomenklatura :In December, McDonald heralded Site C as “essential to keeping the lights on..."Fundamentally, (independent power…
India’s Solar Energy Plan a Shining Success
India consumes a lot energy and consumption keeps growing as their economy expands. They also rely heavily on coal. The government knows that their current form of energy production causes…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Carol Goar writes about the need for Canada's federal government to rethink how we view taxes. And Simon Wren-Lewis tries to explain the resilience…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Katie Hyslop contrasts Canada's longstanding recognition that housing is a human right against the gross lack of policy action to ensure its availability:Canada has…
Political Reality and Climate Policy: A Response to Mark Jaccard
Mark Jaccard’s article in Policy Options has generated a lot of interest. It is a provocative article that challenges the economic orthodoxy that prioritizes carbon pricing above all else. Jaccard…
France Installing 100km of Solar Roads
France has announced that they are going to try a mass installation of solar-panelled roads to provide electricity. It’s an attempt to see if they technology can be scalable and…
Sanders’ Iowa “Win” and Clinton’s Entitlement
Clinton breathed a sigh of relief and spun the result: thanks for the “win.” This was no win. Despite the massive corporate media campaign to ignore Sanders, he did exceptionally…
Sanders’ Iowa “Win” and Clinton’s Entitlement
Clinton breathed a sigh of relief and spun the result: thanks for the “win.” This was no win. Despite the massive corporate media campaign to ignore Sanders, he did exceptionally…
The Unstoppable Renewable Revolution
For years naysayers have been arguing that renewable energy isn’t a good idea because the electrical input fluctuates too much on the grid. Now we have more evidence that those…
TransCanada’s NAFTA claims are based on the old normal
Thursday, January 28, 2016 Earlier this month TransCanada announced that it would be claiming comp...
Province Can’t Pass the Buck on Oil Pipelines: BC Supreme Court
Thursday, January 14, 2016 West Coast has previously suggested that, in spite of the Province of B...
The Fly Report: Why TCPL Sued Obama and the US Government
TransCanada Pipelines (TCPL) just announced it is going to sue the US government for $15 billion under NAFTA and while they’re at it sue President Obama for exceeding his power…
Real test of Paris climate agreement will be how markets and regulators react
So did we save the planet? From the outset, this was never about “saving the planet.” Our spinning hunk of rock has been around billions of years and will continue…
The Importance of Infrastructure Changes for a Sustainable World
With COP21 happening this week in Paris there are many approaches to fighting climate change being discussed. No matter what approach is used there will have to be structural changes…
Alberta Finally Understands That the Environment Exists
Alberta has finally decided to update their energy and environmental policies after years of ignoring the fact that their policies are killing nearly everything within the province. Premier Rachel Motley…
Underwater Balloons Function as Batteries
One criticism of renewable energy systems is that they do not function on demand. You need the sun to shine, the wind to blow, or another natural system to kick…
Is your pension in climate denial?
Fossil fuel divestment campaigns have become a focus for climate change organizing, targeting university endowments, churches, foundations and pension funds. While the motivations are primarily moral—if it is wrong to…