Global warming, climate change, activism
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 Canada, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Politics on Jul 31st, 2009
While Anthony Watts runs around trying to convince Americans that the temperature record is flawed and global warming is a socialist commie plot, the Urban Heat Island Effect is melting the magical place that is Canada’s High Arctic. I mean, if you’re a denier, that has to be how you rationalize it, right? It can’t [...]
Posted in Canada, Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Renewable Energy, UK on Jul 19th, 2009
Ed Milliband, Secretary for Climate Change, has unveiled the UK government’s comprehensive plan for cutting GHG emissions and heralding in a new era of renewable energy in Great Britain. The measures will affect most areas of UK society, from home energy use to power generation, and from electric cars to high-speed rail — all in [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Politics, UK, USA on Jul 9th, 2009
It appears that the G8 pledge to do everything possible to keep global warming below 2°C by 2050 isn’t worth the paper it was written on. Less than 24 hours after leaders of the world’s largest economies were heralding a breakthrough in climate agreements, the bad boys of international climate negotiations — Canada and Russia [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Solutions, Politics on Jul 1st, 2009
On the latest G8 Climate Scorecard (PDF) released in advance of the L’Aquila, Italy G8 Summit, Canada has fallen into last place now that the Obama administration is reversing the global warming policies of his predecessor. The report chastises Canada as one of the few developed countries in the world with dramatically rising greenhouse gas [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Politics, UK on Jun 29th, 2009
Scottish lawmakers have signed into law the world’s toughest climate regulations. The landmark legislation includes binding goals to cut greenhouse gases by 42 percent* by 2020 from 1990 levels, which knocks Germany into second place in the race to set the most ambitious GHG reduction targets. Scotland’s bill does hold an option to delay meeting [...]
Posted in Canada, Greenwashing, Politics, Red Letter Campaign on Jun 29th, 2009
In May, after Canada yet again failed to meet its international obligations on climate change, I sent this letter to the Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister for Industry the Environment asking him to convene a press conference to better inform Canadians on the dangers of climate change. At the very least, I want our Environment Minister [...]
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 [...]