Canada’s Carbon Price Will Radically Cut Alberta Grid Emissions
This is the power of carbon pricing. It makes business cases for fossil fuels and their applications stop making sense.
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Norges Bank Takes A Stand Against Companies Damaging The Environment
Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, has made a powerful stance in favor of climate action.
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.
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.
Tar Sands Pipeline “Line 3” Faces Ongoing Opposition Despite PUC Rubber Stamp
A new analysis released last week shows that building a controversial tar sands pipeline would create climate pollution vastly outweighing planned reductions in Minnesota’s emissions through initiatives like 100% clean energy and clean car standards.
Who Is Strangling Solar Panels In The State Of Kentucky?
This shouldn’t be much of a surprise, but it seems that Canada’s tar sands oil is mixed up in a campaign to squash incentives for rooftop solar in Kentucky.
Study: Air/Climate Pollution From Canada’s Oil Sands Vastly Underestimated (By As Much As 4.5x)
The standard way of estimating air and climate pollution originating from Canada’s oil sands operations vastly understate the reality of the situation, according to a new study from the Canadian government.
Justin Trudeau: “No Country Would Find 173 Billion Barrels Of Oil In The Ground And…
Despite all of the talk to the contrary (and fake smiling), it seems that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has no intent to seriously address the country’s complicity in worsening anthropogenic climate change. Going by his actions since becoming Prime Minister, it’s clear that the comments that some critics made during the election that Trudeau was “just a face” were mostly accurate.
Alberta’s Tar Sands Province To Auction 5 Gigawatts Of Wind
The Canadian province of Alberta, known for its notoriously dirty oil sands, has just made a symbolically significant about-face on energy policy, with potentially major implications for North American wind power.
