'Alternative' energy and less energy

18/04/23
Author: 
Zahra Khozema
The key target for deep-sea mining in international waters is polymetallic nodules, small rocks containing valuable metals. These nodules take millions of years to form. Photo by NOAA Office of OER, 2019 Southeastern US Deep-sea Exploration

Apr. 18, 2023

In the summer of 2021, the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru gave the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the body that regulates international seabed mining, two years to complete regulations governing the new and contentious deep-sea mining industry.

With the deadline on the horizon, Episode 11 of Hot Politics tackles why some countries and mining companies want to harvest the bottom of the ocean and what impacts that will have on ecosystems that deep.

17/04/23
Author: 
Primary Author: Gaye Taylor
Nevada lithium mine - Doc Searls/flickr

Apr. 11, 2023

Demand for crucial energy transition materials is expected to increase four to six times from current levels by 2050, making it urgent to solve the social and environmental problems of mining, say advocates for a clean and just energy transition.

08/04/23
Author: 
Nafeez Ahmed,
Gas Station. Photo by Maarten van den Heuvel / Unsplash

This dire forecast may be overly pessimistic. Unfortunately, it's consistent with the continuing history of market economics blocking most attempts at increasing social-economic planning.

              -- Gene McGuckin

Mar. 29, 2023

originally published by Age of Transformation

08/04/23
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Cobalt mining in Congo, says journalist Siddharth Kara, ‘drags humanity back to a time when the people of Africa were valued only their replacement cost.’ Photo via Harvard Kennedy School.

Apr. 7, 2023

The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics

The green techno-dream is so vastly destructive, they say, ‘we have to come up with a different plan.’

29/03/23
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski & John Woodside
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland takes questions from reporters before tabling Budget 2023 on March 28 at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa. Photo by Natasha Bulowski

Mar. 28, 2023

The federal government is banking on tax breaks for companies — to the tune of more than $80 billion — to usher Canada into a low-carbon economy, Tuesday’s budget announcements show.

29/03/23
Author: 
Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
While the private sector certainly has a role to play, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's 2023 budget should not be leaving vital clean-tech investments up to chance. File photo by Alex Tétreault

Mar. 28, 2023

Corporate tax breaks are the future of Canadian climate policy, according to the latest federal budget, which commits $80 billion over the next decade — of which $56 billion is new money — to subsidies for clean investments.

29/03/23
Author: 
Emiko Newman, Eric Doherty
B.C. currently has five new liquefied natural gas projects in play, including LNG Canada. PHOTO BY LNG CANADA /via REUTERS

Mar. 28, 2023

 B.C. is taking valuable steps but the new budget is full of mixed climate signals.

Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that future action to curb emissions will become progressively more difficult — and undoubtedly more expensive — with every increment of warming.

23/03/23
Author: 
System Change Not Climate Change
Hydrogen: Fossil Fuel's Latest Hype

Website editor: This is a very interesting and informative webinar about the 'spin' on hydrogen.

Mar. 22, 2023

Ashley Kosak discusses the false promise of hydrogen as a climate change "solution." Hint: It's not. Hosted by David Klein for System Change Not Climate Change

Recording of webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyZpH_lolAc

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