Canada

The glaring problem with Canada’s solar sector and how to fix it

27/11/20

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Leigh Matthews

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Renewable energy sources, like solar, are key parts of Canada's net-zero strategy, but this push is unsustainable without regulations governing hazardous e-waste, resource extraction and recycling. Photo iSolara Solar Power

November 27th 2020

Giant solar farms have been widely heralded as great news for green energy in Canada. But is solar energy really sustainable? In the clamour to promote solar panels, there has been a conspicuous silence about the environmental costs of production and what happens to all those panels at end of life.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Canada

Ecology/Environment

Wealth tax? Canadians like the idea.

27/11/20

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Bruce Anderson & David Coletto

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Abacus Data

November 19, 2020

In our latest national survey, we asked how Canadians felt about two different tax ideas that have been discussed as part of an approach to helping pay for the costs of the pandemic. Here’s what we found.

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Canada

Social

Canada is behind other Countries in Climate Crisis

26/11/20

Author:

Barry Saxifrage

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National Observer

Industrial emissions in Fort McMurray, Alta., in 2012. Photo by Kris Krug/Flickr

November 26th 2020

The world’s nations are racing to rein in the climate crisis while maintaining strong economies. Troublingly, Canada is far behind in this time-critical race to build a low-carbon economy. Our decades of foot-dragging have put both our future prosperity and our climate at risk.

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Canada Not Among 151 Countries Toughening Paris Targets

26/11/20

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The Energy Mix

Climate vulnerable forum push for specifics as 151 countries promise tougher Paris targets

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While more than 150 countries have confirmed their Paris Agreement commitments to introduce more ambitious climate plans by the end of this year, the Climate Vulnerable Forum is warning those promises may not be enough to avert the worst effects of the climate crisis in the countries it affects first and worst.

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Canada

Climate Change

Global

The public lab that could have helped fight COVID-19 pandemic

25/11/20

Author:

Linda McQuaig

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The Star

A worker emptying a bottle containing penicillin mould during penicillin production at the Connaught Labs in Toronto in May 1944. ARCHIVES CANADA

March 11, 2020

Canada once had a publicly owned pharmaceutical company that could have made a difference in the current coronavirus crisis — except that we sold it.

Connaught Labs was a superstar in global medicine. For seven decades, this publicly owned Canadian company performed brilliantly on the national and international stage, contributing to medical breakthroughs and developing affordable treatments and vaccines for deadly diseases.

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Canada

Social

Ottawa's new climate plan based on carbon capture is doomed to fail

25/11/20

Author:

Burgess Langshaw Power

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The Conversation

November 23, 2020

Ottawa’s latest climate plan bets on expensive and unproven carbon capture technologies

Last week, the federal government released its long awaited plan to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Bill C-12, if passed, commits Canada to “binding” targets every five years as of 2030 with the goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Canada

Climate Change

Offshore drilling in marine refuge guided by ‘best available science,’ regulator says

24/11/20

Author:

Carl Meyer

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National Observer

An access area for offshore oil drilling in the hull of the drillship Ocean Blackrhino in 2017. U.S. Department of the Interior photo

Nov. 24, 2020

Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil regulator says it expects the “best available science” will be followed when determining the environmental impact of drilling in a fragile Atlantic marine refuge.

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Liberals' climate accountability bill can be saved — but only if we act now

24/11/20

Author:

Elizabeth May

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National Observer

Former Green Party leader Elizabeth May speaks at a town hall in Ontario, Oct. 8, 2015. Photo by Laurel L. Russwurm/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

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Youth leading the charge for climate action at Mock COP26

23/11/20

Author:

Alastair Sharp

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National Observer

Malaika Collette is one of the organizers of a global youth climate conference developing demands of world leaders. Photo by Laurie Collette

November 23rd 2020

Young people from around the world, frustrated at yet another delay at the primary forum for global climate action, are creating their own legal document and asking world leaders to adopt it.

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State of erosion: the legacy of Manitoba Hydro

22/11/20

Author:

Aaron Vincent Elkaim

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The Narwhal

A portrait of a young girl on the streets of Easterville, Manitoba. Easterville is the reserve community of the Chemawawin Cree Nation, founded in 1962 after they were forcibly relocated during the construction of the Grand Rapids dam which flooded 202,343 hectares of land. Photo: Aaron Vincent Elkaim / The Narwhal

Nov. 7, 2020

For five decades, hydroelectric development has altered the lives and landscapes fed by the Nelson River in the province's north. The Keeyask dam, the sixth to modify the river's course, is scheduled to come online in 2021

Ninety-seven per cent of energy produced in Manitoba comes from hydroelectricity. The vast majority of that energy comes from a string of dams on the Nelson River system in the province’s north. There, a sixth mega dam, known as the Keeyask, is under construction to provide electricity for export to the United States.

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Canada

Climate vulnerable forum push for specifics as 151 countries promise tougher Paris targets

Ottawa’s latest climate plan bets on expensive and unproven carbon capture technologies

For five decades, hydroelectric development has altered the lives and landscapes fed by the Nelson River in the province's north. The Keeyask dam, the sixth to modify the river's course, is scheduled to come online in 2021

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