Report: Canada's $60 Billion Opportunity
Canada's share of the growing global market for low-carbon goods and services—such as wind turbines, solar panels, efficient vehicles, and efficient buildings—is worth about $8 billion today,...
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CBC Reveals Horrible Truth About Wind Turbines
Last night, news program This Hour Has 22 Minutes highlighted the issue of wind turbine impacts. "Some call windmills an important part of our sustainable future," the program's investigative...
Surprise, Surprise: Northern B.C. Supports the Carbon Tax
Plenty of Vancouver's latte-sipping, seawall-jogging condo dwellers support the carbon tax. But so does everyone else in British Columbia keen to secure a better future for his or her...
Norway Doubles Carbon Tax, Funds Climate Solutions
When it comes to putting an effective price on carbon, some observers consider Canada a "special case," because we happen to have an enormous geologic endowment of fossil fuel resources that today...
Canada's Next Top Models?
Late last month, global fashion giant Chanel made renewable energy the star of its 2013 ready-to-wear show at the Grand Palais in Paris. A line of enormous wind turbines graced the runway, which was...
Report: B.C.'s New Economy is Humming
With a boost from supportive government programs and policies, British Columbia's emerging clean tech and clean energy economy is thriving, says a new report. When taken together, three of the...
Canada Must Follow Path to Energy Innovation
As the site of a 19th-century conference that helped forge our nation, Charlottetown, P.E.I. is a fitting setting for a gathering this week that could lay the groundwork for Canada's next...
Media Release: British Columbians Imagine a Better Future
How would you spend $125 million to fight climate change and secure a better future for your community? That’s the question at the core of an innovative new online engagement initiative launched...
Premiers Grab the Climate Change Baton
It didn't exactly ignite a clean-energy revolution. But the Council of the Federation meeting of provincial premiers -- which wrapped up last week in Halifax, Nova Scotia -- did hit an important...
Media Statement: Clean Energy Canada Responds to Premiers’ Statement on Canadian Energy Strategy
Announcement from Merran Smith, director of Clean Energy Canada, on the Communiqué announced by premiers at the Council of the Federation: “Today’s energy strategy announcement by the Premiers...
Media Release: Canadians Want A Bold New Energy Strategy
According to a new poll, Canadians believe the country needs an energy plan that reduces fossil fuel dependence, cuts energy waste, creates more clean-energy jobs, fights climate change, and sets...
A Bold Canadian Energy Strategy for a Stronger Canada
Kudos to Dalton McGuinty and Alison Redford for mending fences. The leaders of what are respectively Canada’s most populous and resource-rich provinces both now agree that a Canadian energy...