The Future is Wind

Dec 19, 2018 by Joshua Buck (Alberta Program Manager)

Great News! Alberta’s recent auction for wind power has shown once again that renewables are the cheapest form of new power generation. Alberta is…Read More

Come on Alberta, we can do better!

Dec 14, 2018 by Joshua Buck (Alberta Program Manager)

Alberta, we need to talk. We have an invisible, odorless, and valuable gas that we are just allowing to escape into the atmosphere, where…Read More

Alberta’s carbon levy is working

Dec 13, 2018 by Joshua Buck (Alberta Program Manager)

Since Alberta’s economy-wide carbon levy was introduced in 2017, a lot of claims have been made about the levy, both positive and negative. So,…Read More

Alberta withdraws from Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. So now what?

Sep 20, 2018 by Joshua Buck (Alberta Program Manager)

On August 30, 2018, Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Notley received what, for them, was some terrible news. The Federal Court of Appeals revoked…Read More

Congratulations you now own an oil well!

Aug 17, 2018 by Joshua Buck (Alberta Program Manager)

Okay, you don’t really own an oil well. But very soon, you may be on the hook for paying the cleanup costs of oil…Read More

Environmental Defence has expanded in Alberta: Find out how we can take climate action together

May 24, 2018 by Joshua Buck (Alberta Program Manager)

Hello Alberta! I am a proud Albertan who cares about climate change and the action we take on it, just like many Albertans…Read More

It's time we stop wasting methane

May 17, 2018 by Joshua Buck (Alberta Program Manager)

Have you heard about methane? Methane is the main component of natural gas – the gas that heats our homes and creates 40…Read More

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