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Keith Brooks is campaigns director at the Environmental Defence.

We need climate action, not more distraction

  • What we need is a government that is committed to fighting climate change, and that is prepared to table a credible—and ideally validated—climate plan
Opinion | BY KEITH BROOKS | February 6, 2025
Firefighters at the site of a wildfire in Alberta in the summer of 2023. Photograph courtesy of New South Wales Rural Fire Service

We need climate action, not more distraction

Opinion | BY KEITH BROOKS | February 6, 2025
  • What we need is a government that is committed to fighting climate change, and that is prepared to table a credible—and ideally validated—climate plan

We need climate action, not more distraction

Opinion | BY KEITH BROOKS | February 6, 2025
  • What we need is a government that is committed to fighting climate change, and that is prepared to table a credible—and ideally validated—climate plan
Firefighters at the site of a wildfire in Alberta in the summer of 2023. Photograph courtesy of New South Wales Rural Fire Service

Feds have a long way to go to make progress on plastics pollution 

  • The federal government has promised to release a draft of its long-awaited national plan for cutting plastic pollution at this Friday’s Council of Canadian
Opinion | BY KEITH BROOKS | November 19, 2018
In Canada, just 11 per cent of plastic is recycled. Every year, 10,000 metric tonnes of plastic end up in the Great Lakes alone. Nationally, we throw out enough single-use plastic bags to reach the moon and back. We produce more garbage per person than any other country in the developed world. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Feds have a long way to go to make progress on plastics pollution 

Opinion | BY KEITH BROOKS | November 19, 2018
  • The federal government has promised to release a draft of its long-awaited national plan for cutting plastic pollution at this Friday’s Council of Canadian

Feds have a long way to go to make progress on plastics pollution 

Opinion | BY KEITH BROOKS | November 19, 2018
  • The federal government has promised to release a draft of its long-awaited national plan for cutting plastic pollution at this Friday’s Council of Canadian
In Canada, just 11 per cent of plastic is recycled. Every year, 10,000 metric tonnes of plastic end up in the Great Lakes alone. Nationally, we throw out enough single-use plastic bags to reach the moon and back. We produce more garbage per person than any other country in the developed world. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

The NEB can’t fix itself, only the feds can

  • TORONTO—The National Energy Board is in crisis after the NEB members tasked with reviewing Energy East were forced to step away last week. Ottawa
Opinion | BY KEITH BROOKS | September 19, 2016
The meeting between NEB Chair Peter Watson, NEB Members Lyne Mercier and Jacques Gauthier, and then-TransCanada lobbyist Jean Charest, pictured, has been the focus of much of the reporting, and was clearly inappropriate, writes Keith Brooks. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

The NEB can’t fix itself, only the feds can

Opinion | BY KEITH BROOKS | September 19, 2016
  • TORONTO—The National Energy Board is in crisis after the NEB members tasked with reviewing Energy East were forced to step away last week. Ottawa

The NEB can’t fix itself, only the feds can

Opinion | BY KEITH BROOKS | September 19, 2016
  • TORONTO—The National Energy Board is in crisis after the NEB members tasked with reviewing Energy East were forced to step away last week. Ottawa
The meeting between NEB Chair Peter Watson, NEB Members Lyne Mercier and Jacques Gauthier, and then-TransCanada lobbyist Jean Charest, pictured, has been the focus of much of the reporting, and was clearly inappropriate, writes Keith Brooks. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opposition to Energy East growing in Canada and U.S.: it’s time for a moratorium on oil tankers on East Coast

  • TORONTO—Oil spills don’t care about borders. That’s why there is growing concern about the proposed Energy East pipeline bringing a massive increase in tanker
Opinion | BY KEITH BROOKS | August 1, 2016
A spill could devastate local ecosystems and put lobster, scallop and other fisheries at risk. Oil tankers also threaten endangered species in the Atlantic, like the North Atlantic right whale, whose population is estimated at only 450 individuals. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Opposition to Energy East growing in Canada and U.S.: it’s time for a moratorium on oil tankers on East Coast

Opinion | BY KEITH BROOKS | August 1, 2016
  • TORONTO—Oil spills don’t care about borders. That’s why there is growing concern about the proposed Energy East pipeline bringing a massive increase in tanker

Opposition to Energy East growing in Canada and U.S.: it’s time for a moratorium on oil tankers on East Coast

Opinion | BY KEITH BROOKS | August 1, 2016
  • TORONTO—Oil spills don’t care about borders. That’s why there is growing concern about the proposed Energy East pipeline bringing a massive increase in tanker
A spill could devastate local ecosystems and put lobster, scallop and other fisheries at risk. Oil tankers also threaten endangered species in the Atlantic, like the North Atlantic right whale, whose population is estimated at only 450 individuals. Photograph courtesy of Flickr
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