Chris Hatch
Climate Correspondent | Vancouver
About Chris Hatch
Chris Hatch writes Canada's National Observer's celebrated Sunday newsletter, Zero Carbon. Chris is the former Executive Director of Rainforest Action Network as well as the former executive editor at Canada's National Observer. He is now a columnist at National Observer and writes the acclaimed Sunday newsletter, Zero Carbon.
Quebec oil stats undermine Canada's denial brigade
We’ve heard it time and again. The argument that Quebec has no business touting itself as a climate leader when it’s dependent on Saudi oil. But the argument simply isn’t true, according to the latest numbers.
Jay Rosen on CBC Bolsonaro story: 'The framing of the story was amoral'
Although the public broadcaster has shifted its tone slightly, the original article stands and the criticism keeps mounting.
Fascism is a 'fresh opportunity' Seriously, CBC?
In response to Brazil's election of a wildly neo-fascist president, CBC News is glowing about new opportunities for Canadian mining companies in devastating the Amazon.
British Columbians want electric cars but just try finding one
One-in-three British Columbians expect to buy an electric car as their next vehicle, but they’re going to have trouble finding one.
There are now over 10 million jobs in renewable energy
Asia is leading the global surge in renewable energy jobs. In 2017, the renewable energy industry broke a symbolic threshold, employing over 10 million people, according to the International Renewable Energy Association's latest research.
After 172 arrests, Kinder Morgan blockades pause for ceremony
Indigenous Watch House guardian Will George called for a pause in blockades and a "week of ceremony" after 172 people were arrested over the past week blockading Kinder Morgan's pipeline terminal in Burnaby B.C.
Green Party leader Elizabeth May, MP Kennedy Stewart arrested blockading Kinder Morgan
Green Party leader Elizabeth May and NDP MP Kennedy Stewart were arrested blockading Kinder Morgan's pipeline terminal in Burnaby B.C. on Friday.
Spill near Vancouver. Is the cosmos messing with Trudeau and Notley?
The cosmos must be messing with Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley. Just as the Kinder Morgan pipeline controversy surges to fever pitch over oil spill impacts, a barge near Vancouver has sunk, spilling diesel into the ocean in the territory of the Squamish Nation.
Steve Katz with Linda Solomon Wood on practicing journalism in the time of Trump
How well do you understand the damage to our collective psyches by Donald Trump's "chaos-based" government? Steve Katz, publisher of Mother Jones, gave National Observer subscribers an account from the front lines of American journalism at the kickoff event in the "Urgent Conversations" series, held Nov. 16 in Vancouver.
Trudeau has room to step up on climate
Fully 79 per cent of Canadians believe we “face a catastrophe if we fail to do more.”