Climate Change / Jun 06, 2019
Cleaner, cheaper and growing: renewables are ready. Canadian policy isn’t.
I have a bad habit, like many climate activists, of talking a lot about the bright future for clean, renewable energy. The energy of…Read More
Climate Change / May 28, 2019
Here’s why politicians secretly meeting with oil lobbyists should make us worry
Opposition leader Andrew Scheer and his inner circle are having full-day secret meetings with Canada’s main oil and gas lobby group, the Canadian Association…Read More
Climate Change / May 08, 2019
Will Canada let BC off the hook for methane reductions?
This is a watershed moment for the federal government on its climate action plan. It can choose to uphold strong climate solutions or water…Read More
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