Tag: Greenhouse Gases
Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Carbon Capture Fairy Tales
A new report released recently by Environmental Defence – Buyer Beware: Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Carbon Capture Fairy Tales in Canada – reveals that...
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...
Small Nuclear Reactors: A Dirty Dangerous Distraction From Climate Action
Rather than taking the draconian steps needed to cut fossil fuel emissions, Canada will spend billions on false and unproven solutions that fail to...
Nuclear Power Is Not A Responsible Investment
Seventy-eight Public Interest Groups are calling on Canada’s biggest banks to drop investments in nuclear power, including so-called Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) from their...
Unless We End Financing of Coal, It Will End Us
The 2018 IPCC Report stated emphatically that coal-fired power production worldwide must be reduced by 78% by 2030 to keep the world on a...
Cities for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
In October of 2020, Vancouver became the first city in the world to endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FFNPT). Then in 2021, Barcelona,...
European Union: The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum
The EU plan to declare nuclear power and natural gas plants green has unleashed "one of the most heated political battles in Europe at...
Why Climate Denial Is Still Happening
You don't need to be a scientist or climatologist to know something is not right. You just need to look out your window or...
Shameful: Canada Is a World Leader for Fossil Fuel Finance
We Canadians have the dubious honour of being a world leader in financing fossil fuels and the worst offender of all G20 nations. Just...
We Have Left It Too Late
We've waited too long to get serious about climate change. For decades, warnings from scientists and the IPPC have gone unheeded. And now, we've...