A Carbon Price In Canada Of $170 CAD By 2030 Is Great Climate News
Today, Canada’s federal government dropped its new climate change plan, led by a very big number: $170 per ton of CO2 as a carbon price by 2030.
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Heat Pumps Are Amazing On Modern Grids, Not So Much In Coal Country
Electrifying everything at the same time as all electrical generation shifts to renewables are two of the key points in my Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work. Heat pumps are only part of the answer, but at about 1% of Canada’s total GHG emissions reduction target, they are a surprisingly big one. Too bad about Alberta though.
Electrify Canada Expands Into Alberta
Electrify Canada, which is a partner of Electrify America as well as Volkswagen Group Canada, continues spreading holiday cheer and ultrafast EV charging stations across Canada, and it has now expanded into Alberta.
19 Environmental Monitoring Requirements For Oil Sands Suspended By Alberta
Citing the coronavirus epidemic, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) indefinitely suspended 19 environmental monitoring requirements for oil sands producers such as Syncrude, Suncor, Imperial Oil, and CNRL.
A Tale Of Two Oil States: Norway & Alberta, Canada
Both Norway and Alberta, Canada are economies that gain huge profits from selling oil. They have huge natural reserves of it and make ginormous profits from feeding our “need” for oil powered transportation. However, their method of deploying those profits is in sharp contrast, and interestingly it even guides their philosophies and how they view climate change.
A Tale Of Two Cleanups: Oil Sands Vs Mining
The oil and gas industry will shudder slowly to a halt. It will collapse, leaving the remediation to Canadian tax payers.
No One Is Buying Canada’s Oil: A Preview Of The Near Future New Normal
When will Canada learn? Stop throwing money at the fossil fuel industry. Let it live or die on its own with its decades of profits. Shift investment to clean technologies, technologies which are also much lower in contagion pathways for Canadians. Stop investing in the past and start investing in the future.
When Oil Companies Go Too Far — This Is Disgusting
An Alberta oil company, X-Site Energy Services, handed out promotional stickers at job sites for workers to wear on their hard hats. These stickers had a cartoon image of Greta Thunberg, who is now 17, being sexually assaulted.
7 Winners & Losers From Canadian Teck Oil Sands Project Withdrawal
Teck made a tough call and made it the right way. Its only fault was letting it get anywhere near this brink. The company should have canceled this process months ago.
Teck Resources Pulls The Plug On $15.5 Billion Frontier Oil Sands Project In Alberta
Teck Resources has decided to abandon its plan to build an enormous new tar sands mine in Alberta. It’s a significant victory for the Earth but environmentalists cannot rest. The fight for a clean energy future has a long way to go yet.
