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The Best Way To Create Jobs: Reduce Fossil Fuel Use

Clean Energy Rolly Montpellier @Below2C_ - August 21, 2018

As the world slowly transitions to a clean energy future, one of the major concerns we keep hearing about is the loss of jobs in the fossil fuel sector. President Trump was elected on the promise of restoring fossil...

Reasons To Choose Climate Hope

Clean Energy Climate Reality | Primary Source | Educational - August 7, 2018

The 24 Reasons To Choose HOPE guide (from the Climate Reality Project) forms the backdrop for and is the primary resource for this article.The news about climate change is often quite grim but underneath this cloud of uncertainty and unease...

Where We Are In The Clean Energy Revolution

Clean Energy Jeremy Leggett @JeremyLeggett - July 10, 2018

Dr Jeremy Leggett is founding director of Solarcentury, founder and chair of SolarAid, and a researcher and writer on climate, clean energy, technology and the future of civilization. Recently at FundForum International 2018 he was asked to do an...

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Why I'm Adamantly Opposed to the Kinder Morgan Buyout

Lynne Quarmby @LynneQuarmby

Lynne Quarmby is a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University. She was arrested for civil disobedience protesting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in 2014. In her opinion piece earlier published in the National Observer, Lynne shares eleven reasons why Canadians need to oppose the Kinder Morgan buyout. We are... Read more

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Will Kinder Morgan Be the Next Pipeline to Nowhere

Andrea Harden-Donahue @CouncilofCDNs

Remember the Northern Gateway pipeline? How about the Energy East pipeline? Neither got built. Both projects got quashed due primarily to public resistance. As opposition and resistance build in the coming months, Kinder Morgan will become the next pipeline to nowhere. (Editorial comment). Source: Wikimedia Commons, William Chen On July 22 the Canadian government missed... Read more

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Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline: 9 Reasons We Shouldn’t Be Buying The Pipeline or The Spin

Ken Johnson and Rolly Montpellier @WellBelow2C

It was quite a shock when the Canadian Finance Minister announced that the Liberal Cabinet’s solution to Texas-based Kinder Morgan’s pipeline woes was that Canada would buy the Trans Mountain Pipeline outright for $4.5 billion. Here are 9 reasons we shouldn’t be buying it: Credit: Directly Affected, Pipeline Under Pressure film 1. Loss of Credibility... Read more

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Climate Economic Impacts From Kinder Morgan May Total $8.7 Billion

Stephen Leahy @StephenLeahy

Much has been written and debated about Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) during the last months — its economic merits, job creation, the Tar Sands expansion, its acquisition via taxpayer dollars, Canada’s national interest, our Paris Agreement emissions targets and more. But what about the climate impacts of Kinder Morgan. In this article, Stephen... Read more

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Climate Change - Canada Doubling Down on a No-Win Bet

Primary Source | Thomas Homer-Dixon | Globe and Mail

“Continued investment in the oil sands generally, and in the Trans Mountain pipeline specifically, means Canada is doubling down on a no-win bet,” write Thomas Homer-Dixon of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and University of Waterloo doctoral candidate Yonatan Strauch in a recent Globe and Mail op-ed. Canada’s No-Win Climate Bet Source: Pixabay creative... Read more