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BREAKING: Powering Past Coal Alliance Urges Faster Phaseout While Co-Founders Allow New Coal Mines
The global Powering Past Coal Alliance is taking sharp criticism from both sides of the Atlantic this week, with delegates gathering for a three-day ... -
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Windsor, Ontario Courts Investor for $2-Billion Battery Manufacturing Plant
The auto manufacturing town of Windsor, Ontario is angling for a C$2-billion investment in an electric vehicle manufacturing plant, Canada’s first, that would create ... -
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Seven in 10 Canadian Car Shoppers Plan to Go Electric
Nearly 70% of Canadians looking to buy a new vehicle within the next five years plan on dumping the internal combustion engine and going ... -
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War-Torn States Look to Local Renewables, Rooftop Solar for Greater Stability
Desperate to improve energy access for their citizens, some of the world’s most fragile states have delivered an open letter to wealthy nations, development ... -
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Western Australia Plans 1,000 New Microgrids Combining Solar+Storage+Hydrogen
The Labor government in Western Australia expects to save hundreds of millions of dollars with a A$259-million, five-year green manufacturing plan that will see ... -
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B.C. Pushes Forward with Site C Hydro Megaproject Despite $16-Billion Price Tag
Premier John Horgan has given the green light for work on British Columbia’s Site C hydroelectric dam to proceed, citing termination costs of more ... -
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RBC Adds $500 Billion to Sustainable Funds, Faces Mounting Pressure for Fossil Investments
The Royal Bank of Canada plans to add C$500 billion to its sustainable investment funds by 2025 after hitting an initial target of $100 ... -
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‘Future Belongs to Renewables’ as Norwegian Wealth Fund Blacklists Four Alberta Fossils
Norway’s US$1.3-trillion sovereign wealth fund is following through on its threat to drop investments in Canadian tar sands/oil sands production, with four Alberta fossils ... -
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Five Colossal Fossils Lose $76 Billion in 2020 as Energy Transition Speeds Up
Five top colossal fossils—ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, and Total—lost a combined US$76 billion last year, almost all of it due to an accelerating transition ... -
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TAF Urges $27-Billion Federal Investment for ‘Well-Functioning Deep Retrofit Market’
The federal government should build on the work of the 2020 Task Force for a Resilient Recovery by investing at least C$27 billion in ... -
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Coalition Urges Federal Funding to Drive Down Farm Emissions, Bring Producers Onboard for Climate Action
A new coalition of agriculture and environmental groups is calling for a two-year, C$600-million federal investment to begin reducing the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions, ... -
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Carney Walks Back Net-Zero Claim, SBTi Faces Criticism as Corporate Carbon Plans Draw Closer Scrutiny
Two of the biggest sources of optimism on corporations’ momentum toward serious carbon reductions are receiving pushback, with ex-Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney ... -
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Canadian Fossil Subsidies Tripled in 2020, Report Shows
A new report suggests the economic impact of the pandemic led to a massive increase in federal aid to Canada’s oilpatch. -
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Trans Mountain Tries to Hide Insurers’ Identities as Industry Pushes for Climate Disclosure
The Crown corporation building the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has asked a federal regulator to conceal the names of its insurance companies to ... -
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Exxon Dumps Tar Sands/Oil Sands Holdings, Slashes Estimate of Recoverable Reserves
Colossal fossil ExxonMobil has dropped virtually all its tar sands/oil sands holdings from its list of recoverable assets, and its Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil ...
