British Columbia is considering its next steps to fight climate change, and increasing the carbon tax is one of the options on the table. B.C.’s carbon pollution is on the rise. To get back on...
“If we want to prevent the worst effects of climate change before it’s too late, the time to act is now. Not later. Not someday. Right here, right now.” So said the President of the United...
In the first part of this series, we explored how Canada could benefit from changing its tack on energy and climate. Specifically, we recommended that Ottawa show up as a constructive participant in...
With the longest election campaign in more than a century now behind us, our newly elected federal government has a clear mandate to get moving on a climate change and clean energy agenda. Prime...
You can almost set your watch to it: Every time a new and disruptive technology begins to take hold, the backlash follows. So it is with “The Darker Side of Solar Power“–an article...
I don’t want to brag or anything, but I paid my carbon tax the other day. I’d just tanked up my vehicle — I don’t yet have an electric car — with 30-odd litres of regular unleaded, near my...
Climate disruption jumped to the fore of the global political agenda in 2014 and a series of developments cemented both renewable energy and carbon pricing as lead solutions to the crisis.Here are...
For years, the story of energy in Canada has been the story of fossil fuels — so much so that in this country, at least, the terms are typically used interchangeably. Last week my team flipped...
It took a critical mass of innovation, commercial viability and political will to make Alberta’s oil sands the focus of Ottawa’s energy policy. The same factors are converging now to make clean...
Were Alberta and Texas separated at birth? How Texas has manages to beat Alberta on wind energy....
We’re catching our first hints of whether or not British Columbia’s liquefied natural gas companies intend to make good on the province’s promise to produce “the cleanest LNG in the world.”...
Ask a Canadian what’s going on over in China these days, there’s a good chance they’ll cite the country’s off-the-charts smog. Yet, this has led China to implement a wide range of policies...