Canadian Banks Funding Climate Chaos
Fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 trillion in the six years since the adoption of the Paris...
Against Carbon Pricing? Think Again.
Elections always matter. Canada's federal election, now just days away, will be followed by the U.S. election in November of 2020. Canadian voters have...
Clean Energy Transition – Decisive, Irrefutable And Unstoppable
"The march toward a renewable energy future continues, unabated," reports Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The positive trend line on renewables is decisive, irrefutable and unstoppable...
Kinder Morgan Approval Would Break Climate Promises
The approval of any pipeline project in Canada would demonstrate pure hypocrisy and out-and-out deception by the federal government thereby making Trudeau's climate promises dishonest and politically...
Backsliding on Climate: The World Was Right To Be Skeptical
"The political will for painful choices is evaporating fast...turns out the world was right to be skeptical,” Bloomberg writes about expectations coming out of...
Fossilflation – the Conversation Should Be About the F-word
"If inflation is top of the public mind, the conversation should be about the F-word — how much of our economic problems are rooted...
We Pick Climate Hope Over Climate Despair
There are two ways to look back at what 2019 showed us about the climate crisis. On one side, there's the climate despair that...
Natural Gas Is Really A Bridge To Nowhere
Natural gas is often viewed as the clean fossil fuel because its burning emits much less emissions than coal and oil—50 to 60 percent...
Stephen Harper – Six Ways to Crush Free Expression in Canada
This post is a reproduction (with permission) of Franke James' latest visual essay regarding the crushing of free expression in Canada since 2006 when...
Four Senior Nuclear Officials Say Nuclear Is Not A Climate Solution
Nuclear is not a strategy that will help with the climate crisis. Renewables are a better alternative to nuclear small modular reactors for two...