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CanadaCitiesClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentLegal & RegulatoryOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportPost-Carbon TransitionSub-National Governments
Péloffy: ‘Epic Clash of World Views’ Pits Public Mobilization Against Fossil Lobby
Quebec’s “climate spring” is a cascading grassroot trend that the province’s “powers that be” ignore at their peril, argues Karine Péloffy, legal counsel for ... -
AustraliaBioenergyBitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxEnergy PoliticsFirst PeoplesForests & DeforestationMedia, Messaging, & Public Opinion
Climate and Environment Emerge as Top Public Concerns Before Canadian, Australian Elections
With federal elections coming up in Canada in October and in Australia in May, opinion polls are identifying climate change—and in Canada, waste reduction, ... -
EU Parliament Fails to Censure Exxon for Denying Climate Change, Ignoring Summons to Testify
In a ruling that angered activists and academics fighting to hold ExxonMobil to account for its leading role in climate denial, the leaders of ... -
Veteran Climate Negotiator Arrested in London, Says Paris Implementation ‘Not Delivering’
After decades working inside the law, international climate lawyer and diplomat Farhana Yamin charged through a police line, dived under the arms of an ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesHot SpotsLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
News Analyst Hopes for ‘Less Bellicose’ Kenney as Climate Groups Prepare for the Worst [GoFundMe Campaign]
News commentary in the wake of the United Conservative Party’s decisive election win in Alberta last week is skewing in two equal and opposite ... -
CanadaEnergy PoliticsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National Governments
Asadollahi: Kenney Won, But Alberta’s Politics Are Forever Changed
The results of last week’s Alberta elections were disappointing -- the incoming government is largely in denial of anthropogenic climate change and has openly ... -
Friedman: ‘Green Real Deal’ Holds the Key to Beating Trump in 2020
While the Green New Deal’s baked-in principles are laudable, it will be “getting real” and building on the growing bipartisan consensus on the urgent ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesOil & GasPetrochemicals & PlasticsPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Kenney Vows to ‘Stand Up’ for Fossil Jobs, ‘Turn Off the Taps’ to B.C.
With about 55% of the popular vote and 63 out of 87 seats in the next Alberta legislature, premier-designate Jason Kenney used his victory ... -
Governing Coalition Shifts in Wake of Finland’s ‘Climate Election’
Finland is in line for a change in its governing coalition, after the centre-left Social Democrats eked out a close win in what Greenpeace ... -
CanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementEnergy PoliticsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionSub-National Governments
Ontario Plans Gas Pump ‘Propaganda’ Sticker on Carbon Tax, with Fines if Gas Stations Refuse
The Doug Ford government in Ontario is raising eyebrows with a provision buried deep in its recent budget bill that sets fines of up ... -
CanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCulture, Curiosities, & HumourEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportPost-Carbon TransitionSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Analysis: Alberta Misses Out on Grown-Up Conversation About Fossil Transition
With Albertans voting tomorrow in the province’s 30th general election, most of the punditry and virtually every opinion poll reinforce the popular wisdom that ...
