Climate Change / Feb 21, 2019
Alberta’s phony $80 million lost per day
You’d probably have to be living under a rock to have missed the $30 million ad campaign being blasted everywhere right now by…Read More
Climate Change / Feb 14, 2019
Oil companies don’t care about you or the planet
You have to wonder how oil executives sleep at night. Two recent media stories clearly show that Big Oil is willing to sacrifice the…Read More
Climate Change / Fossil Fuel Subsidies / Dec 11, 2018
As the climate crisis looms, why does Canadian oil and gas think it can keep expanding?
Expanding oil and gas production is undermining Canada’s ability to be a climate leader. And oil executives are successfully weakening and delaying Canadian climate…Read More
Climate Change / Oct 23, 2018
Canada is now one step closer to having polluters across the country pay for their carbon emissions. In the face of opposition from…Read More
Climate Change / Movement Building / Oct 15, 2018
What the media is missing about the new IPCC report: We shouldn’t give up.
Last week the most esteemed climate scientists in the world unveiled a new report that laid out the global impacts that we should…Read More
Climate Change / Movement Building / Sep 25, 2018
Beyond “Hothouse Earth”: Mourning is part of climate action, but then you have to get up again
A friend from British Columbia was in Ottawa for work recently. Pretty quickly the conversation came around to the summer of forest fires…Read More
Climate Change / Movement Building / Sep 06, 2018
If you care about climate change you should care about methane
If you care about climate change, you should care about oil and gas methane. If you care about human health, you should care…Read More
Movement Building / Toxics / Aug 30, 2018
Good(ish) news! Our case against Alberta’s leaking tailings ponds will be investigated
First the good news. The three NAFTA countries voted unanimously to allow an investigation to go forward on tar sands tailings ponds leaking…Read More
Climate Change / Aug 08, 2018
Five reasons why the Canadian government shouldn’t give more exemptions to polluting industries
Let’s start here. It’s good that Canada will have a price on carbon across the country on January 1st, 2019. Making polluters pay for…Read More
Climate Change / Jul 31, 2018
Mexico’s methane regulations prove once again that Alberta’s approach is badly out of step
Yesterday, Mexico joined a growing list of countries showing leadership on reducing harmful methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, by releasing…Read More