Fiona Harvey
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News, Energy, Politics
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June 4th 2018
Plunging prices for renewable energy and rapidly increasing investment in low-carbon technologies could leave fossil fuel companies with trillions in stranded assets and spark a global financial crisis, a new study has found.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent a lot of time on his feet in the House of Commons on Monday, responding to questions about revelations by National Observer that two oilpatch executives were getting $3 million in bonuses because of a federal deal negotiated by his finance minister to buy a west coast pipeline and expansion project.
A think tank launching at Ryerson University in Toronto Tuesday aims to ensure Indigenous researchers have a greater input on policy issues relevant to their peoples.
"No deal ... no buyout." A speech that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could have given if he'd said 'no' to Kinder Morgan is imagined by 'Mitchell Beer, publisher of The Energy Mix, an e-digest on climate change, energy, and post-carbon solutions.
The Ontario NDP candidate for Ottawa South said she's found that health care, education and community safety are the main issues — by a long shot — that people raise when she goes door-knocking in the riding.
Dozens of environmental groups say if Canada wants to be a leader in getting the rest of the world to kick its plastics habit, it has to start by setting the bar for recycling plastics far higher at home.
Not only were Canadian officials scrambling to limit problems for travellers, they were simply trying to grasp what was going on when the Trump administration issued an executive order last year banning people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.
