Opinion & Analysis
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Analysis: Fossil Lobby Keeps Pitching as Federal Green Recovery Discussions Get Complicated
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) showed a previously unsuspected sense of humour last week, pitching the federal government for another round of ... -
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Fossils Expect Permanent Losses, Renewables Keep Growing as Pandemic Crashes Global Energy Demand
The permanent reductions in conventional energy demand wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic will change the oil and gas industry forever, leaving renewables as the ... -
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‘Radical Agenda’ in Memo to Ministers Shows Fossil Fuel Lobby Losing Touch
The epic news conference in mid-April where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced C$2.4 billion in job creation funding for the country’s oil and gas ... -
BioenergyCarbon-Free TransitionClimate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourOpinion & AnalysisSolarUnited StatesWind
Blistering Critiques for Moore’s Planet of the Humans: Short on Facts, Arbitrary in Style
An Earth Day release by filmmaker Michael Moore and director Jeff Gibbs, purporting to show that a clean energy transition won’t help address the ... -
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Canadian Fossils Headed for ‘Deep, Deep Collapse’ After Oil Price Dips to -$37.63 Per Barrel
Oil traders and fossil executives whose livelihoods rise and fall on the price of oil were in a state of collective shock earlier this ... -
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Pandemic Response Should Mobilize Around Low-Carbon Solutions
With the coronavirus pandemic devastating the global economy and pushing world oil prices over a cliff, the federal government has two potential options in ... -
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Climate Denial, Disinformation Obscure the Cause of Australia’s Bushfire Disaster
Australia’s climate denial machine is kicking into high gear, with Scott Morrison’s Liberal coalition government and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire trying to separate the ... -
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Need to Get It Right: Article 6 Could Trigger Faster Carbon Cuts or Massive Greenwashing
It could make or break the success of the Paris Agreement. It’s a notably complicated section of an international accord that is already arcane ... -
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Saudi Aramco IPO Shows Weakening Global Oil Market, Perils for ‘Wexit Albertans’
Saudi Arabia’s long-awaited bid to raise investment dollars through an initial public offering (IPO) for its massive, state-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco, has produced ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFirst PeoplesJobs & TrainingMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisPathways to 1.5
‘Two Worlds Collide’ as Urgent Street Protests Meet Slow, Deliberate COP Negotiations
With negotiations at this year’s United Nations climate conference in Madrid, COP 25, reaching their midpoint, some delegates and observers are getting a sense ... -
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BREAKING: Moody’s Downgrades Alberta’s Credit While Federal Regulator Predicts Continuing Over-Dependence on Oil
One of the world’s leading credit assessment agencies has downgraded its rating for Alberta, citing the province’s over-dependence on fossil fuels, lack of pipeline ... -
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IEA Drives Fossil Growth, Climate Breakdown with Latest World Energy Outlook
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is undercutting its own, essential role in confronting the climate crisis by downplaying renewable energy options and driving future ... -
CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Denial & GreenwashingEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesHealth & SafetyMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Pipeline Politics: Who Buried the Lede?
Award-winning investigative reporter Paul McKay looks into how mainstream media tilts coverage by assigning climate science missing-in-action status. -
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Analysis: Encana Departure Puts Canada, Alberta at Crossroads to a Carbon-Free Future
The overwrought grief that greeted Encana Corporation’s decision to move its Calgary head office to the United States shows Canada and Alberta at a ... -
CanadaEnergy PoliticsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Minority Government Could Deliver Climate Action, But Time to Change the Front-Line Conversation
A week after the climate crisis emerged as the big winner in Canada’s federal election, politicians and opinion writers are beginning to probe the ...
