A clean energy cheat sheet for budget 2017
Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled his second budget last week, and we saw a lot to like in its pages. The headline we took from this year’s edition is that Ottawa is not backing off on climate...
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Despite Trump, Canada’s budget stays the course on climate change
From a climate perspective, two big events set the context for Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s second budget. In December, Prime Minister Trudeau got his provincial and territorial counterparts...
Federal budget’s clean energy investments welcome
OTTAWA—Clare Demerse, federal policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following comments in response to the federal budget released Wednesday: “We’re pleased that the new federal budget...
Why clean electricity is a competitive advantage Canada needs to harness
Last December, most premiers and the prime minister adopted a landmark national climate plan to cut carbon pollution and spur clean growth. For Canada’s clean energy sector, a national climate plan...
The Canada that prospers in the decades ahead will be electric, connected—and clean
It’s early morning, 2067. You tap your phone to silence the buzzing alarm, which activates your home’s automated ‘wake up’ setting. A soft glow fills your room as a network of LEDs reaches...
Comment on the B.C. NDP’s clean growth and climate plan
VANCOUVER — The B.C. NDP today announced its Clean Growth and Climate Action plan. The plan includes five guiding principles: reduce carbon pollution, gradually increase B.C.’s federally...
Ontario’s coal phaseout in perspective
In a new report released this morning, the Fraser Institute paints a simplistic portrait of Ontario’s coal phaseout—the single largest greenhouse gas reduction initiative in North America to...
Clean energy is too good a deal for Trump to pass up
In the days following the election that will put Donald Trump in the White House, media coverage about the prospects for America’s clean energy sector read like an obituary. After all,...
Poll: Canadians react positively to national climate and clean growth plan
Survey also shows most Canadians support a transition from fossil fuel reliance as quickly as possible, including half in Alberta OTTAWA—New public opinion research found that roughly 20 million...
Does Canada’s new climate plan get us on track?
It’s a whole new ballgame for climate action and clean growth in Canada. The climate deal struck late Friday in Ottawa committed premiers and the prime minister to work together to hit our...
Letter: We congratulate the First Ministers on Canada's new climate plan
We congratulate the Prime Minister and Premiers on achieving a national plan to drive clean growth and make real progress on climate change. This plan includes the key elements needed to do so,...