Canada

ChatGPT generated panoramic cross-section of a Canadian energy corridor, showing crude oil pipelines below and overhead HVDC transmission lines running in parallel

TMX’s C$3B/Year Oil & Gas Subsidy Lesson: Design Energy Corridor For Electrons Not Oil

Canada is once again flirting with the idea of an east-west energy corridor. The vision sounds big and bold: a designated path across the country to carry everything from crude oil to natural gas, hydrogen to electricity. In this rapid, Trump-inflected election cycle, political leaders are lining up behind the … [continued]

ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a hydrogen station with Canadian money raining down on it from a cloudy sky - visual metaphor for wasted subsidies

British Columbia Pays HTEC Millions For Another Hydrogen Station Nobody Needs

HTEC just opened another hydrogen fueling station in British Columbia. It sits gleaming and underused in the Lower Mainland, one more high-cost monument to a transportation future that never arrived. It’s an infrastructure project aimed at a market that doesn’t exist, serving vehicles that aren’t being driven, with fuel no … [continued]

ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a SMR reactor rusting in the rain, beside an unused and dirty hydrogen pump and a hydrogen van covered in cobwebs

Bavarian SMRs & Hydrogen Vans: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

First Hydrogen Corp, a Canadian firm with more ambition than balance sheet, has now turned its sights on Germany — arguably the worst possible place to mix hydrogen hype with small modular nuclear reactors. The company, known mostly for a hydrogen van prototype and a team structure with more CEOs … [continued]

ChatGPT generated panoramic image of an Innovation Fund piggy bank spilling money into a hydrogen storm drain

Ontario Doubles Down On Hydrogen For Energy As Countries Leave Table

Ontario’s love affair with hydrogen was always going to be an expensive fling. But now it’s turning into a full-blown marriage—despite all the warning signs from older, wiser jurisdictions that have already filed for divorce. The province is doubling the Hydrogen Innovation Fund to $30 million, a tidy sum that … [continued]

Image courtesy of VinFast

VinFast: The EV Revolution Needs More Than Cars

VinFast and other industry leaders are proving that the success of electric vehicles depends not just on technology but on building a seamless ownership ecosystem—one that eliminates range anxiety, ensures reliable service, and makes switching to EVs as effortless as possible. MARKHAM, Ontario — The move to electric vehicles is … [continued]

ChatGPT generated image of an abandoned hydrogen industrial facility

7 Projects Down In The Inevitable Death Of Hydrogen For Energy In B.C.

It was never going to work. The CBC’s March 2025 freedom of information exposé confirmed what engineers, analysts, and every mildly numerate policymaker should have known: British Columbia’s grand hydrogen production ambitions were built on sand. According to briefing documents to B.C.’s then energy minister in September of 2024, at … [continued]

ChatGPT generated panoramic aerial view of Dronninglund’s solar thermal fields and insulated water pit storage, set beautifully against a winter backdrop

Can Underground Thermal Batteries Warm Northern Cities in Deep Winter?

Having grown up in Canada’s north and spent far too many winters trudging through snowy downtown streets in Toronto, Ottawa, and Edmonton, I know firsthand just how brutal Canadian winters can be—and how urgently our cities need practical, scalable, low-carbon heating solutions. Even if you haven’t spent months navigating icy … [continued]

NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison and Wanmei Liang, using data from DSCOVR EPIC and VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). Story by Emily Cassidy.

Making America Irrelevant

Paul Krugman writes that America will be irreparably harmed both economically and culturally by the policies of this administration.