Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Politics on Dec 1st, 2009
Tzeporah Berman is one seriously smart woman — but not just because she’s saying what I’ve been saying (here and there and everywhere) since taking One Blue Marble live one year ago. She gets it. It’s not just about climate change. It’s about prosperity and the heart and soul of our nation.
Let’s just look [...]
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Politics on Dec 1st, 2009
George Monbiot in The Guardian
When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country’s government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee’s tea party. So amazingly destructive [...]
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Politics, USA on Sep 16th, 2009
From an editorial published in The Toronto Star.
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with President Barack Obama in Washington this week to discuss clean energy and climate, I hope the Canadian public and media keep him honest. Close attention should be paid to any special treatment Harper attempts to gain for Canada’s tar sands, your [...]
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Politics, USA on Sep 16th, 2009
Author John Updike once described Canada as a cool, chaste country, but that’s not how Greenpeace sees it. Earlier this week, the environmental warriors issued a harsh report that described Canada an international carbon bully.
Sooner or later, that description is going to stick. Over the last two and a half years, several different environmental groups [...]
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Energy Efficiency, Old King Coal, Renewable Energy on Aug 11th, 2009
Every week, as part of my job, I read hundreds of articles that show where the clean technology and renewable energy industries are heading. And every week, Canada lurches off in the opposite direction. Every week, billions of dollars flow through the European Union, Obama’s America, China, South Korea, India, Japan — in fact, every [...]
Posted in Activism, Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Old King Coal on Jul 5th, 2009
Imagine that you’re a tobacco company CEO in the 1960s, and the Surgeon General announces that your product kills people. What would you do? Perhaps you’d experiment with new filters and blends for a few years, trying to minimize the harm. But a decade passes, nothing changes, and you face a horrible truth.
Your product is [...]
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Clean Technology, Old King Coal, Politics on Jun 16th, 2009
In a wide-ranging and candid interview with The Globe & Mail’s Editorial Board, Canada’s Environment Minister has admitted what environmental activists have been saying for years — that carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology probably won’t work at the Alberta Tar Sands. Nevertheless, over the last 18 months, the provincial and federal governments have offered [...]
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, USA on May 16th, 2009
US cap-and-trade legislation will have widespread ramifications, not only for Americans, but for America’s largest trading partner, too.** Canada’s Conservative government has placed all its financial eggs in one basket in making the Alberta tar sands the center of the country’s economic policy.* Unfortunately for Canada, with depressed prices for oil, tar sands companies are [...]
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Greenwashing, Old King Coal, Politics on May 5th, 2009
Although many countries are setting ambitious carbon reduction targets, a few are still struggling to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Among G8 economies, Canada has the worst GHG record, and Environment Canada attributes Canada’s poor showing to large increases in oil and gas production.
Environment Canada says that carbon dioxide emissions rose to [...]
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Energy Efficiency, Greenwashing, Politics on May 4th, 2009
OK, here’s the basic story.
Canada’s Environment Minister Jim Prentice says that his government will not allow any new coal plants to be built in Canada without carbon capture and sequestration technology, a sure sign that the US position on GHG emissions is even affecting policies north of the border. Prentice’s new position has already angered [...]
