Apr 9 2019 — Carl Meyer — National Observer — Are you skeptical that the Trudeau government’s price on carbon pollution is the best way to lower emissions? Blair Feltmate has a solution for you. The head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo is chairing an arm of a new independent watchdog that will hold Ottawa to account on […]
Apr 2 2019 — Biojet is in the news a lot lately, with one carrier after another announcing a test flight. But widespread use by most airlines just does not seem to be happening. Why? Let’s look at the case for Biojet and determine its real status in today’s jet fuel marketplace.
Apr 1 2019 — CBC — Canada is, on average, experiencing warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world, with Northern Canada heating up at more than twice the global average, according to an upcoming government report leaked to CBC News columnist Neil Macdonald by a government source. Entitled Canada’s Changing Climate Report (CCCR), the study was commissioned […]
Apr 1 2019 — Carl Meyer — National Observer — Canada wants you to help public servants identify subsidies to the oil and gas industry. Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna announced a new public consultation on March 29 asking all Canadians what they believe the definition of “fossil fuel subsidy” should be. The announcement came four days before Environment Commissioner Julie Gelfand is […]
Apr 1 2019 — Policy Options — Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time has been called the world’s least read, most celebrated book. In a more humble category, Bill C-69 could be Canada’s least read, most criticized legislative proposal. C-69’s most contentious parts would replace Harper-era legislation governing assessments of major projects, including those of the oil and pipeline sectors. A […]
Mar 30 2019 — The Conversation — Climate change might be the most urgent issue of our day, both politically and in terms of life on Earth. There is mounting awareness that the global climate is a matter for public action. For 11,500 years, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations hovered around 280 ppm (the preindustrial “normal”), with an average surface temperature around […]
Mar 29 2019 — Michael Tutton, The Canadian Press — NOEL, N.S. — They were first created by the Acadian settlers of the 1700s, one shovel full of clay-rich soil at a time. Over the centuries the dikes protecting the Maritime lowlands have been extended, expanded and, in the 1950s and 60s, built higher and stronger through a massive federal rehabilitation program. But geomorphologists who […]
Mar 28 2019 — National Observer — The right-leaning government of Canada’s most populous province has created a new job for a former Conservative cabinet minister who dismisses scientific evidence showing how much humans are changing the planet’s climate. Joe Oliver, 76, previously a natural resources and finance minister in the government of former prime minister Stephen Harper, is now a board […]
Mar 27 2019 — Bruce Anderson and David Coletto — Abacus Data — Almost 8 million Canadians are “extremely” worried about climate change. 9 million say it will be the top or top two issue they vote on. Our most recent nationwide survey included questions on current attitudes towards climate change and benchmarked awareness of the federal carbon price backstop that will come into effect in four […]
Mar 27 2019 — The Canadian Press — Ontario’s environmental commissioner says the state of climate policy in the province is inadequate and frightening. Dianne Saxe delivered her last report today, after the Progressive Conservative government eliminated the office, merging its functions with the auditor general. Premier Doug Ford had promised that not a single job would be lost under his government, but […]
Mar 27 2019 — Carl Meyer — National Observer — The Bank of Canada is committing to investigate and be more transparent about how climate change will affect the country’s economy, as scientists warn of extreme weather that could disrupt global trade and damage critical infrastructure. Canada’s central bank said Wednesday it is now “building climate-related risks into our financial system review process” and will […]
Mar 27 2019 — Joe Oliver — Financial Post — I recently returned from a Petroleum and Energy Summit in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG), which put into stark relief the moral imperative of developing fossil fuels, especially for the poorest people in developing countries. By implication, it reinforced the profoundly unethical stand of climate-change alarmists who are working to rid the world of […]
Mar 27 2019 — The Canadian Press — Canada’s small business operators say they are not ready for the carbon tax to kick in next week — particularly since the federal government has still not told them how they will be compensated for the cost. The federal carbon pricing backstop kicks in April 1 in the four provinces that didn’t have their own […]
Mar 26 2019 — Associated Press — A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest-shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a NASA study has found. The Jakobshavn glacier around 2012 was retreating about three kilometres and thinning nearly 40 metres annually. But it started growing again at about the same rate in the past two years, […]
Mar 25 2019 — Don Pittis — CBC — In the final year of its existence, a private sector group that advocates in favour of carbon taxes is taking another stab at convincing Canadians. Despite a recent spate of storms and floods whose violence scientists blame on climate change, anti-carbon tax politics seems to be in the ascendancy in many provinces. Between that and […]