Opinion & Analysis
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BioenergyCCS & Negative EmissionsDrive to 1.5Energy PoliticsHuman Rights & MigrationHydroNational Plans & ResponsesNuclearOpinion & AnalysisPost-Carbon TransitionUnited States
Green New Deal Risks Splitting U.S. Climate Community Over Timelines, Targets
The prospect of a comprehensive Green New Deal to drive rapid decarbonization and create jobs in the United States has been receiving considerable air ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesFinance & DivestmentFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Beer: If Fossils ‘Don’t Need Handouts’, Let’s Do Something About Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Federal Opposition leader Andrew Scheer’s mid-December claim on behalf of Canadian fossils that “we don’t need handouts” was a great invitation to rescind the ... -
CanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsOpinion & AnalysisPost-Carbon TransitionSub-National Governments
10 Arguments for Carbon Pricing: ‘Don’t Throw Any Tool Out of the Toolbox’
After a multi-year fight for political acceptance, carbon pricing is suddenly under attack from all sides of the political spectrum. Lyn Adamson, co-chair of ... -
CanadaCulture, Curiosities, & HumourFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportShale & Fracking
Pipeline Investment ‘Goes Palliative’ in Wake of Unist’ot’en Blockade
Two separate news outlets are declaring the end of pipeline investment in Canada, while several focus in on the differences in jurisdiction between elected ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesCanadaChinaEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentJobsOpinion & AnalysisPost-Carbon TransitionSupply Chains & ConsumptionUnited States
GM Plant Closure Shows Industry Transition Catching Canada, Ontario Flat-Footed
The more than 2,500 workers at General Motors’ 65-year-old auto assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario were among the casualties earlier this week when the ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesCanadaEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentOpinion & AnalysisPost-Carbon TransitionSub-National GovernmentsTransit
Dubitsky: Lost Opportunities Show Cost of Canada’s Moribund Cleantech Manufacturing Strategy
While General Motors is tying its decision to close its Oshawa, Ontario manufacturing facility to the rise of electric and autonomous vehicles, GM is ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentJobsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasOpinion & Analysis
Opinion: Canadian Fossil Swings at C-69, Misses the Point on Crashing Global Markets
In a hyperbolic opinion piece this week for the Financial Post, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers pivots from the curious notion that a ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBatteries/StorageBitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentLegal & RegulatoryOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportPost-Carbon TransitionShale & FrackingSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
OPINION: Canadian Fossils ‘Lose Patience’ with Trudeau as World Oil Prices Drag Them Down
With world oil prices heading toward another crash, the swashbuckling free marketeers in Canada’s oilpatch are doing exactly what you would expect: amping up ... -
CanadaDrive to 1.5Legal & RegulatoryMethaneOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisPathways to 1.5Post-Carbon TransitionShale & FrackingSub-National Governments
Asleep at the Switch: Canada’s Pathway to 1.5°C Means Phasing Out Natural Gas
There’s a massive gap in Canadian climate strategy that is big enough and serious enough to undercut every other effort to turn the country ... -
AsiaBitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentMiddle EastOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
EXCLUSIVE Alberta Alert: Dead Mines Walking?
One week ago, the price American refineries will pay for a barrel of Alberta bitumen fell to just below US$30. A seismic jolt raced ... -
AsiaBitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentLegal & RegulatoryMiddle EastOpinion & AnalysisTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
EXCLUSIVE: Panic in the (Oilpatch) Suites
Last August 30 was not just a ‘wake up and smell the coffee’ moment for federal and Alberta politicians pushing to accelerate future tar ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesCanadaChinaEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsEuropeFinance & InvestmentOpinion & AnalysisPost-Carbon TransitionSolarUnited States
EXCLUSIVE: Stalled U.S. Tailpipe Standards Could Trigger the Next Auto Industry Bailout
The green transition in China, the world’s largest energy consumer and vehicle market, is unfolding at a faster rate, and with greater intensity, than ... -
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13-Point ‘To-Stop List’ Offers Trudeau a Way Forward After Trans Mountain
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet try to patch together a to-do list to salvage the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in light ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourEncoreEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesLegal & RegulatoryOpinion & Analysis
Beer: Dodge’s ‘False, Frightening Narrative’ Suggests ‘People Will Die’ in Trans Mountain Protests
A recent opinion piece by ex-Bank of Canada governor David Dodge, asserting that killing off a few “extremists” in the Burnaby Mountain protests might ...
