Jun 30 2022 — Carl Meyer — The Walrus — When the Alberta government announced a sweeping suspension of environmental rules to almost all companies in the province’s oil and gas industry in the spring of 2020, it claimed it would continue “all” critical monitoring activities needed to protect public health, the environment and to prepare for emergencies. But a recent report from a provincial […]
May 3 2022 — Carl Meyer — The Narwhal — To prop up pipeline giant TC Energy, Jason Kenney’s government set up numbered companies in Delaware. Here’s what the companies are doing now. The building at 1209 Orange Street in Wilmington, Delaware, isn’t the first place Albertans might associate with their government’s push for pipelines.
Mar 28 2022 — Carl Meyer — The Narwhal — Three major Canadian banks and a powerful lobby group representing some 60 domestic and foreign banks have asked Canadian regulators to delay potential reforms that would require corporations to be more transparent about how the climate crisis may disrupt their operations and finances.
Mar 23 2022 — Carl Meyer — The Narwhal — Mark Little wrapped up oilsands giant Suncor Energy’s February 2022 earnings call by reassuring investors that shareholders would have more cash in their pockets than the year before.
Mar 3 2022 — Carl Meyer — The Narwhal — Despite sweeping sanctions after the invasion of Ukraine, some Canadian resource extraction and manufacturing ventures haven’t been directly punished for continued business with Russian partners
May 21 2021 — Carl Meyer — National Observer — Canada’s largest oil and gas lobby group says the federal minister of environment and climate change shouldn’t be solely responsible for setting carbon pollution reduction targets. A senior executive from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) told the House of Commons environment committee that Bill C-12, the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, should be […]
May 18 2021 — Carl Meyer — National Observer — Documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis will run in the next federal election as an NDP candidate, he announced Monday. Lewis is expected to be acclaimed as the NDP candidate for the riding of West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country during a campaign launch scheduled for Saturday. Liberal MP Patrick Weiler currently holds the seat.
May 6 2021 — Carl Meyer — National Observer — Native American tribes say the risk of an oil spill from the Line 5 oil pipeline poses a “grave threat” to their right to hunt, fish and gather in northern Michigan and the Great Lakes. Michigan’s 12 federally recognized tribal governments — which are sovereign nations that provide services such as health, education and court […]
Apr 23 2021 — Carl Meyer — National Observer — Canada’s new carbon pollution target is a range, rather than a specific number, in order to signal the “uncertainty” involved in setting future goals based on forecasts, the federal government said Thursday.
Apr 22 2021 — Carl Meyer — National Observer — Vancouver credit union Vancity was the only Canadian financial institution to join Wednesday’s launch of a new global banking coalition for net-zero emissions. None of Canada’s big five banks were founding signatories of the UN-convened Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) that promised April 21 to align investment portfolios with science-based climate targets starting in 2030.
Apr 21 2021 — Carl Meyer — National Observer — When the Boundary Dam coal plant in Saskatchewan opened the world’s first commercial-scale carbon capture and storage operation in 2014, it was supposed to save a million tonnes of carbon pollution each year. Instead, seven years later, the $1.35-billion project — the recipient of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding — has captured […]
Apr 16 2021 — Carl Meyer — National Observer — Infused throughout the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling that Parliament acted constitutionally when it passed the Liberal government’s carbon pricing law is the logic that the provinces are incapable of fully acting on the climate crisis themselves. The provinces could not be relied on to set minimum standards to cut carbon pollution, even if they […]
Apr 7 2021 — Carl Meyer — National Observer — Liberal and NDP national conventions being held this week are both set to feature policy proposals that would embrace a “Green New Deal” for Canada. The 2021 Liberal National Convention runs April 8 to 10, while the NDP’s Convention 2021 runs April 9 to 11. Both events are being held virtually. The governing Liberal Party […]
Apr 6 2021 — Carl Meyer — National Observer — Canada added fewer megawatts of renewable energy capacity in 2020 than any of its G7 counterparts, according to new figures from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). However, Canada is still the top country in the Group of Seven major industrialized nations for the share of its electricity capacity that is already represented by renewables […]
Mar 29 2021 — Carl Meyer — National Observer — Canada is being outpaced on the international stage when it comes to green investments in electric vehicles and clean energy, environmental groups say. The federal government has an opportunity to change course in about three weeks, when the Liberals table their first budget in over two years, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) argued […]