Angela Carter
About Angela Carter
Angela Carter is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo. She is the author of Fossilized: Environmental Policy in Canada’s Petro-Provinces (UBC, 2020), recipient of the 2021 Donald Smiley Prize for the best book on the study of government and politics in Canada. Carter is now extending this work in an international comparative project focused on understanding and amplifying national bans on fossil fuel extraction. Carter is also a researcher with the Corporate Mapping Project.
Canada’s energy regulator turns a blind eye to dangerous global warming
Canadians need expert analysis to guide the economic transformation to battle climate crisis. A recent report from the Canada Energy Regulator provides an inadequate blueprint, write Kathryn Harrison, Mark Jaccard, Nicholas Rivers and Angela Carter.
Canada's energy-crossroads election
Canada’s leading political parties are backsliding by protecting fossil fuels, missing international climate commitments along the way. Here’s what we could do instead.