Mar 22 2019 — Clean Energy Canada — Buses. They’re the veins of our cities, transporting billions of people around their daily lives. Whether it’s a morning commute, a lift home from school, or a trip to the hockey game, buses have been a stalwart part of Canadian life for decades. But most Canadian buses also pollute. Yes, they’re better than cars because […]
Mar 21 2019 — National Observer — Buses. They’re the veins of our cities, transporting billions of people around their daily lives. Whether it’s a morning commute, a lift home from school, or a trip to the hockey game, buses have been stalwarts of Canadian life for decades. But most Canadian buses also pollute. Yes, they’re better than cars because they move […]
Mar 15 2019 — National Observer — Twelve-year-old Roy Bateman already knows what he’d say if he met Ontario Premier Doug Ford. “I wouldn’t go up and scream in his face,” he says matter-of-factually. “I would ask him why he’s not taking climate action. Why he cancelled cap and trade and why he thinks this is good.” Bateman pauses. “If he replies […]
Mar 15 2019 — CBC — Climate change can be a touchy subject — even among advocates of climate action. And especially when it comes to the issue of geoengineering.
Mar 14 2019 — Abacus Data — Canadians believe the future of consumer vehicle market will be defined by electric vehicles, and they hope it happens pretty quickly, according to the second in a series of exclusive polls by Abacus Data and Clean Energy Canada.
Mar 13 2019 — Kyle Bakx — CBC — Executives from a pair of Canadian oilsands companies extolled the virtues of a carbon tax on one of the largest stages for the global energy sector. Climate change is one of the dominant topics of this year’s CERAWeek, a conference in Houston sometimes dubbed the Super Bowl of the world’s energy sector. This year’s conference […]
Mar 8 2019 — Carl Meyer — National Observer — A surge in U.S. and Canadian oil production over the last decade has added the equivalent of “one Russia or one Saudi Arabia” to the markets — pushing the planet farther away from ever getting a grip on the pollution that is driving climate change. Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, […]
Mar 7 2019 — Vincent Geloso — Fraser Institute — When economists speak about climate change risk, they use a lens of externalities. Simply put, externalities emerge when exchanges between two parties has consequences that spill over onto third parties. These externalities are labelled “negative” when these spillovers hurt third parties. Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from economic activity constitute a negative externality, as producers and […]
Mar 5 2019 — FPAC — A US-based environmental lobby group recently released a misleading report about tissue and toilet paper that takes aim at Canadian forests and forestry workers. It marks yet another attack on Canadian natural resource jobs and rural and northern towns by U.S. special interests who simply do not understand how carefully and sustainably we manage our […]
Mar 4 2019 — Policy Options — A carbon tax, according to most economists, is the most efficient way to reduce emissions. But is it politically feasible? The conventional wisdom is that it is political suicide at worst and a heavy lift at best. Recent opposition to the federal government’s carbon pricing scheme by the provinces of Saskatchewan, Ontario, Manitoba and New […]
Mar 4 2019 — NBC News — More Americans see the Democratic Party’s positions on climate change, health care, abortion and immigration as being “in the mainstream” than the Republican Party’s positions on those issues, a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal finds. And on fiscal issues like taxes and spending, a similar share of Americans — about […]
Mar 1 2019 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — On behalf of the Canadian Nuclear Association, Abacus Data developed a different approach to surveying contemporary attitudes towards nuclear energy. Instead of looking principally at nuclear as a source of energy, we created a survey that explored whether people might feel differently about nuclear if the conversation was about how to find energy solutions that […]
Feb 27 2019 — Carl Meyer — National Newswatch — Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is planning to award a multimillion dollar grant to a non-profit organization that will take on a watchdog role, holding the federal government to account for its climate change commitments and policies, says a spokeswoman from her office. The minister’s office confirmed the plans after McKenna’s staff met with the […]
Feb 26 2019 — Maximilian Kniewasser and Brianne Riehl — Pembina Institute — Three months ago, the British Columbia government released CleanBC, a new economic strategy aimed at getting us back on track to achieving our province’s climate targets. The plan’s stated objective is to shift B.C. from an economy powered by oil and gas to one increasingly powered by clean energy. This is an ambitious proposition. Given the […]
Feb 13 2019 — Policy Options — There’s an opportunity to flight climate change that is literally all around us. It’s the road you took to get where you are. It could be the building where you’re sitting right now.