Joe Vipond
About Joe Vipond
Dr. Joe Vipond has worked as an emergency physician for over 20 years, currently at the Rockyview General Hospital in Calgary, Alta. He is past-president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. He is also the co-founder and a board member of the local non-profit the Calgary Climate Hub, and during COVID, the co-founder of #masks4Canada and #ProtectOurProvinceAB. Joe grew up in Calgary and continues to live there with his wife and two daughters.
We need to treat fossil fuels like Big Tobacco
To reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and stem disinformation that blocks effective climate action, a comprehensive ban on advertising, promotion and sponsorship of fossil fuel products and industries is needed.
We need to end thermal coal exports
Thermal coal contains significant amounts of mercury, which can threaten the development of unborn babies, and accumulate in bodies and aquatic food chains.
The climate crisis isn’t a game, it’s our foreboding future
Despite all the signs that we need to be doing more, faster, the current political conversation around climate is to do much less: Remove the carbon tax, eliminate the clean electricity standard.
An emissions cap will protect our health
Here at COP28, the UN climate conference in Dubai, health is in focus. Me and my fellow medical professionals are here with the message that the climate crisis is a health emergency, and phasing out fossil fuels is the cure. Unfortunately, fossil fuel lobbyists are also here in droves, trying to delay action.
Reducing emissions? Or creating greenwashing?
For Shell, BP (previously self-branded as Beyond Petroleum) and Alberta’s Suncor, the glint of black gold has them riding the fossil fuel carousel rather than reaching for the gold transition ring.
Connecting the dots on the human health impacts of coal power
It's time to distinguish substance from spin on the health risks of coal-fired plants, say doctors from the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.
Opinion: Time to embrace a coal-free future
Canada has promised the world it will act, and, perhaps for the first time, live up to its international climate commitments. Canadians deserve no less, write Ian Bruce and Joe Vipond.