renewables

Episode 5 of Mortal Giants — Power Switch "The dark side of the story is that China did this through subsidies and through artificially lowering prices such that (the) solar industry in the US and European Union completely was wiped out,” said Vina Nadjibulla, vice-president of Research and Strategy at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

Canada will fail to protect its most vulnerable communities and fail to fully reap the rewards of playing an integral role in the transition to renewable energy that is sweeping the globe, unless we move much faster.

As climate activists spoke out against fossil fuel presence, countries detailed the barriers slowing their transition to clean energy.

One of 39 nations that pledged to end non-domestic support for fossil fuels at the COP26 climate change conference in 2021, Canada spent $6.75-billion less last year backing new sector projects, according to International Institute of Sustainable Development

Renewable energy is already well on the way. Now, researchers on the East Coast are turning their attention to increasingly complex energy storage solutions to empower wind, solar and geothermal to help it truly supplant fossil fuels.

Paris Olympics, Lululemon and the fossil fuel fashion fail: As the climate crisis threatens the future of sport and the health of athletes, retired professional athlete and Canadian Olympian Margo Malowney asks Team Canada sponsor Lululemon to address its reliance on fossil fuels and skyrocketing emissions.

Oil and gas are Canada's top exports, but as the world embraces the so-called clean tech revolution, our per capita GDP is already shrinking. Without some plan to replace fossil fuels, our economy will face an unparalleled calamity.

Nova Scotia's Dan Roscoe started as a renewables investor, but now he's at the head of a local company with plans for localized energy generation that he sees as key to the energy transition.

Lobbying is hampering the world's nations in the battle to make climate progress, according to former Irish president Mary Robinson and Ban Ki-moon.

Energy Transitions Commission chair Adair Turner sees “serious challenge” ahead for country as greater-than-expected oil and gas export revenue loss combines with high-price ramp up of carbon capture to meet national climate targets.

Nova Scotia’s electricity grid is far from 100 per cent renewable. Are EVs still a good environmental choice?

In February, the United Conservative Party government announced new rules to develop renewable power in the province. They impose a 35-kilometre buffer zone around protected areas and what the government calls "pristine viewscapes."

Such a summit would have been unthinkable a dozen years ago in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, but a warming planet creating a need to phase out fossil fuels and war in Ukraine laying bare a dependence on Russian energy have turned the tables over the past half decade.

If changing the course of a major global industry seems out of reach, you might take heart from the students at Tvind high school in Jutland, Denmark, who built the world’s largest wind turbine in 1978.

What stands in the way of Canada meeting its climate targets? Some provinces, politicians and industries are trying to slow climate action under the dubious guise of addressing affordability.