Energy Politics
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Blame Polluters, Not Individuals, for Climate Crisis, Monbiot Urges
The fossil industry’s public relations master stroke has been to convince citizens that we share equal blame for the climate crisis, when the majority ... -
Declare Climate Crisis a Public Health Emergency, Health Organizations Urge Federal Parties
Nearly two dozen organizations representing more than 300,000 Canadian health professionals are out with a call for all the country’s political parties to treat ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourEnergy PoliticsMedia, Messaging, & Public Opinion
Non-Partisan Campaign Helps Teens Shift Their Parents’, Grandparents’ Voting Priorities
A Toronto mother and entrepreneur has launched CoVote, a non-partisan effort to help teenagers shift their parents’ and grandparents’ perspective on their vote in ... -
Voters Peg Climate Change as Second-Highest Concern as Polls Point to Likely Minority Government
With the party leaders sprinting toward their last televised debate last night, the climate crisis continued to place among voters’ top ballot box concerns, ... -
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Watt-Cloutier: Protecting the Arctic from Runaway Warming is ‘the Test of Our Time’
Protecting the Arctic from rapid warming is one of the essential steps in averting runaway climate change for the entire planet, Inuit leader Sheila ... -
Boris Johnson’s Dad Declares for Rapid Carbon Cuts After UK PM Dismisses Protests
The dinner table conversation in one of the UK’s most famous households just got a whole lot more interesting, after Stanley Johnson, father of ... -
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Oil Lobby Wish List Would Drive Up Canada’s Fossil Emissions 60% by 2030, Analysis Shows
The overheated wish list that Canada’s oil industry is putting forward in this month’s federal election would use up 60% of the entire country’s ... -
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Analysts Pan ‘False Equivalencies’ Between Liberal, Conservative Climate Plans, Cite Massive Public Support for Off-Carbon Transition
The false equivalencies being drawn between the Liberal and Conservative parties’ climate plans, the importance of this month’s election result to Canada’s clean energy ... -
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Business Coalition Urges All Federal Parties to ‘Renew Canada’s Climate Leadership’
A group of nearly four dozen Canadian business leaders has sent the parties running in the federal election an eight-point plan that calls on ... -
Klein to Small-C Conservatives: Your Leaders Aren’t Rising to the Challenge
With support for and opposition to climate action breaking down along ideological lines, British Columbia researcher and author Seth Klein is out with an ... -
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Election Wrap: #VoteScience Week Kicks Off, Carbon Tax Fades as Election Issue, and Fossil Ad Works Around Election Advertising Rules
With just two weeks to go in Canada’s federal election, a week of national leader’s debates gets under way tonight, Evidence for Democracy kicked ... -
Climate Hawks See No Gain in German Utility RWE’s Plan for 2040 Coal Phaseout
German coal and power plant giant RWE, Europe’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, is promising to make its operations carbon neutral by 2040, prompting ...
