Author: Clean Energy Canada

Canada can take clean stimulus lessons from Obama

“This is a meaningful, shovel-ready project that will create jobs for local workers.” This 2009 quote, from then-prime minister Stephen Harper announcing federal stimulus dollars for a new...

How Canada can “build back better”

Canadian governments have been, quite rightly, focused on delivering relief to those Canadians and businesses that are suffering from the economic impacts of COVID-19. But the conversation is...

An open letter from Canada’s clean energy sector

April 3, 2020 Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, As the Government of Canada develops and deploys its response to the unprecedented impact COVID-19 is having on our health and economy, we offer your...

For most Canadians, carbon pricing is a money-saver

OTTAWA — Sarah Petrevan, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement regarding the annual increase to the federal price on pollution: “Let’s be crystal clear:...

Alberta court rules on federal carbon price

TORONTO — Sarah Petrevan, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the Alberta Court of Appeal’s ruling that Ottawa’s federal...