Canada’s future generations: affordable clean energy vs. legacy nuclear debt?
For the sake of today and tomorrow’s young, Canada needs to follow a ‘sustainable renewables path to net zero’ using all of our people and financial resources.
Will logging more in healthy forests reduce wildfire risk?
Expanding industrial logging into remaining unlogged forests is not the solution; more broad forest management is.
The carbon tax is not created for all
Transportation, heating, and electricity expenses are already substantial; the added burden of carbon pricing pushes these costs to crisis levels.
Canada has a chance to lead on the world stage with an improved Nature Accountability Act
Bill C-73 is a much-needed piece of legislation that would give the National Biodiversity Strategy legal teeth, and make it enforceable by the courts.
Pumping more oil while the house burns down: how long will the fantasy last?
Fossil fuels still hugely contribute to provincial coffers and the federal treasury, but too so would green energy alternatives if given a chance to flourish instead of being undermined by the Alberta government.
Final clean electricity regulations need more flexibility to adapt to physical limits, says Electricity Canada CEO
A final draft of Clean Electricity Regulations, part of Canada’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan, are expected to be published before the end of 2024.
The killer whales are speaking, but is the minister of transport listening?
Now is the time for a transition plan towards watertight regulations that can reverse the possibility of Southern Resident killer whales going extinct this century.
Yet-to-be-named members of new council supporting green energy transition a focus for environmental and labour group advocacy
The Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act, which requires the government to make five-year plans to help workers transition to cleaner jobs in the green economy, received royal assent on June 20.
Emissions cap concerns among top environment issues in federal lobbying for six months of 2024
‘There’s a real sense of urgency on the part of the government to get [environment policy measures] finished,’ says Tim Gray, executive director of Environmental Defence.
Climate records and effective mitigation
Climate change is accelerating and the effects are getting worse. We may have already crossed a threshold to Hothouse Earth. But in the real world, it’s still the economy, stupid.
