Alberta residents would support using revenue collected from the province’s tax on industrial carbon pollution to support energy efficiency, rooftop renewables, electric vehicle chargers, and other climate solutions, new research suggests. “Alberta has acknowledged it needs to do more to cut carbon and the government…
Today’s announcement that Ottawa will invest $82 million in a wide range of clean energy research and demonstration projects is welcome news. It’s also not nearly enough to put Canada in the race. While the federal government is allocating roughly one fifth—or some $17.7 million—of the funding…
Almost 70 percent of Albertans would like their province to phase out its coal power plants or shut them down altogether in favour of natural gas and and renewable energy sources, according to a new poll. “This research suggests that Albertans want their province to…
Wednesday marked the first day of the 2013 Clean Energy Ministerial in Delhi, India. For the next few days, energy ministers from around the world will confab to discuss how best to advance clean energy technology and advance the global transition to a low-carbon…
Clean Energy Canada at Tides Canada today released a B.C. Climate Leadership Position Summary indicating where the major political parties planning to run candidates in the British Columbia May 14 provincial election stand on the carbon tax. “It is exciting that we’re starting to see…
The climate and energy challenge is frequently portrayed as a world of absolutes. We are either doomed, or salvation is just around the corner. We have either missed the narrow window to forestall disaster, or are told it is premature to act in the face…
The following op-ed appeared this morning in The Vancouver Sun, co-authored by Merran Smith and Paul Kariya: The prospect of serious climate disruption and increased fossil fuel dependence is troubling, to say the least. But here in British Columbia, it is also spurring new alliances…
Recently, Suncor Energy asked Merran Smith, director of Clean Energy Canada at Tides Canada, to share her perspective on the energy strategy conversation, and the role of oil sands in a world facing climate change. The company published her responses on its OSQAR blog. The…
At first glance, “affordable” coal power seems like a steal. But dig a little deeper into the pile, and its price advantage relative to renewable energy starts to go up in smoke. And airborne mercury. And lead. And ground-level ozone. Using the most conservative and…
Everyone knows that Alberta is awash in natural resources. What is perhaps less widely understood is that not all of them lie underground. Last week, the province’s wind-energy sector surpassed 1,000 megawatts of installed capacity. Yet this is barely touching what’s actually possible—largely due to…
For the past year, Canada Post has been testing a fleet of four Navistar eStar all-electric mail trucks in Vancouver, as seen here. Each vehicle can travel 160 kilometres on a charge, can be fully recharged within six to eight hours, and can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as ten tons annually. Where are you seeing signs of the low-carbon shift in your community? Please drop us a line at info@cleanenergycanada.org.