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Ontario be Warned – Importing ‘Fracked Gas’ is Not the Way To Go, Say Experts
The days of cheap abundant natural gas from US shale gas ‘fracking’ operations are most likely numbered, three experts testified before the Ontario Energy Board (OEB). Far better for Ontario to...
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DeSmog Investigation into Faulty Natural Gas Emissions Reporting Prompts...
The B.C. Ministry of Environment stands by its “implausibly low” estimate of methane leaks from the natural gas sector according to an official “information note” triggered by DeSmog's two-part article...
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Ontario Approves Importing U.S. Fracked Gas
The Ontario Energy Board’s approval of three natural gas projects last week puts the province’s plans to significantly reduce Ontario’s carbon footprint in jeopardy.The ruling also gives Ontario the...
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NWT Residents Demand Environmental Reviews Before Fracking Is Permitted
Residents of the Northwest Territories are demanding environmental reviews be conducted before companies are permitted to ‘frack’ for oil in the NWT. Despite controversy in Canada and other countries...
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B.C. LNG Strategy Won’t Help Solve Global Climate Change: New Pembina...
The B.C. government’s claim that LNG exports offer the “greatest single step British Columbia can take to fight climate change” is inaccurate in the absence of stronger global climate policies...
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Volkswagen Got Caught Cheating Emissions Reporting. Will B.C.?
This is a guest post by Andy Skuce.Volkswagen has admitted to cheating on emissions tests of some of its diesel vehicles. The full story has not yet been made public, but Volkswagen seems not to be an...
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Andrew Nikiforuk’s Latest on the Fracking Craze should be Required Reading...
This is a guest post by Ben Parfitt, resource policy analyst with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. It orginially appeared on policynote.ca.Well, I won’t back down No, I won’t back down You...
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4 Key Questions for Canada's New Pipeline, LNG Climate Test
This article by policy analyst Matt Horne originally appeared on the Pembina Institute website. Last week, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr announced...
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Top Five Climate and Environment Issues for Obama-Trudeau Bilateral Summit
The strained relationship between Canada and the U.S. over the last decade was in no small part due to disagreement over the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper was...
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Canada-U.S. Plan to Nearly Halve Methane Emissions Could Be Huge Deal for the...
At the Canada-U.S. bilateral talks last week President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced an ambitious plan to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 per...
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Christy Clark's Answer to B.C.'s Early Forest Fires? Burn More Fossil Fuels
Christy Clark is our province’s very own natural gas salmon, swimming gamely upstream against the advice of evidence and experts from multiple fields, determined to spawn B.C.’s LNG business in the...
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Eating Less Meat Will Reduce Earth’s Heat
Will vegans save the world? Reading comments under climate change articles or watching the film Cowspiracy make it seem they’re the only ones who can. Cowspiracy boldly claims veganism is “the only way...
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LNG Industry Could Make B.C. Canada’s Worst Actor on Climate
While the B.C. government may like to claim it’s a “climate leader,” the province has quietly become a climate laggard compared to Canada’s other most populous provinces according to a new analysis...
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An In-depth Look at Improving B.C.'s Carbon Tax: Martyn Brown
This is the third of a four-part series on B.C.’s climate action plan. Be advised, it is a very long read, more like a short book of six chapters. Part One of this series addresses B.C.’s GHG reduction...
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B.C. Climate Plan Subsidizes Fossil Fuels (Yes, You Read That Correctly)
The B.C. government has quietly slipped subsidies for the natural gas sector into its climate plan, which has been panned as “cynical” by leading experts.B.C.’s so-called Climate Leadership Plan,...
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