Opinion & Analysis
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Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Kenney Unveils Fossil ‘War Room’, Faces Criticism on Carbon Tax Repeal, Wildfire Impacts
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced the cost but few details of his much-touted, C$30-million oil and gas “war room” Friday, prompting immediate pushback from ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxEnergy PoliticsOpinion & AnalysisPetrochemicals & PlasticsPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Greens Want to End Oil Imports by 2030, Break Canada’s ‘Oil Habit’, but Keep Producing Plastics from Bitumen Past 2050
Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May appears to be borrowing a page from Conservative Andrew Scheer’s playbook, with a campaign promise to free the ... -
Climate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCulture, Curiosities, & HumourMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisPost-Carbon Transition
‘We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For’: Youth from 125 Countries Join May 24 School Strike
The day before more than one million young people in 125 countries around the world took to town and city streets yet again to ... -
AfricaCitiesClimate Impacts & AdaptationFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationOpinion & AnalysisSevere Storms & FloodingUnited States
100 Resilient Cities Closure Shows Limits of Climate Philanthropy
In the spring of 2013, the Rockefeller Foundation—the hundred-year-old charitable organization started by Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller—launched an ambitious program to help ... -
CanadaEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisSub-National Governments
Pre-Election Messaging Rolls Out as Ottawa Confirms Federal Carbon Tax for Alberta
With Ottawa confirming last week that it will impose its backstop price on carbon after the Jason Kenney government moved to eliminate Alberta’s carbon ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatCanadaEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFirst PeoplesMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisSub-National Governments
Ford’s Anti-Carbon Tax TV Ad Backfires, But Indigenous Budget Cut Hits Home
The Doug Ford government in Ontario faced widespread ridicule last week for an inept anti-carbon tax video that delivered the opposite of its intended ... -
CanadaEnergy PoliticsFirst PeoplesLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportShale & FrackingSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Oilpatch Journalist Debunks Krause’s Conspiracy Theories About Anti-Pipeline Campaigners
Part of Jason Kenney’s “pushback strategy” is a C$2.5-million public inquiry into “the foreign source of funds behind the campaign to landlock Alberta energy.” ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxClimate Impacts & AdaptationEnergy PoliticsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & Analysis
Trudeau: Green Victory in B.C. Shows Canadians ‘Preoccupied About Climate Change’
Green Party candidate Paul Manly’s decisive victory in Monday’s byelection in the B.C. riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith shows that Canadians are “preoccupied about climate change,” ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & DivestmentOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Kenney’s Big Promises Face Economic Realities, Grassroot Expectations
On his first visit to Ottawa last week as Alberta premier, Jason Kenney rattled sabres about national unity and fossil regulation, briefly stepped back ... -
CanadaCitiesClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrive to 1.5Failure Is Not An OptionOpinion & AnalysisSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National Governments
Epic Eastern Canadian Floods Drive Adaptation Discussion as GHG Reductions Lag
With record, devastating flooding in parts of Quebec, New Brunswick, and Ontario, thousands of people evacuated with their homes underwater, 2,000 Canadian Forces troops ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate DenialEnergy PoliticsOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Jason Kenney: ‘Emissions Be Damned’
Premier-designate Jason Kenney torqued up his recent Alberta election win by triumphantly arriving at a Calgary Stampede site stage with the help of almost ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Impacts & AdaptationCulture, Curiosities, & HumourEuropeLegal & RegulatoryOpinion & AnalysisPost-Carbon Transition
Loevinsohn: Climate Resilience Matters, But Resistance Begins in the Courts
I was on Vancouver Island this August. The haze that dimmed noon to dusk and that drove air quality off scale—the worst on the ... -
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 ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Analysis: If Kenney Takes Alberta, Trudeau Finally Gets to Make a Decision
With Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party (UCP) looking virtually certain to win the Alberta provincial election next week, news analysts are beginning to weigh ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBitumen BubbleCanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionFinance & DivestmentFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportShale & FrackingTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
Fossil Analysts Blame Global Transition, Not Federal Policies, for Canadian Industry’s Woes
A strange, new tone is emerging in the day-to-day news chatter about Canada’s oil and gas sector: after years of blaming regulatory rules and ...
