There’s a single figure that encapsulates our climate predicament: the amount of carbon dioxide in the sky. It is surging into treacherous new territory and the size of the surge is even more disturbing: it soared by a record amount in 2024.
A report today from Stand.earth shows the industry’s water use increased 50 per cent in 2024.
s drought in British Columbia’s Peace River region leads to massive wildfires and the City of Dawson Creek scrambles to find a new water source, a report released today concludes that water use by the region’s fracking industry shot up a record 50 per cent last year.
Chart Source: Author’s own illustration, based on long-term OECD analysis.
Sept. 30, 2025
Within a historically short period, capitalist society has generated enormous wealth but also caused profound ecological degradation and threats to survival. Yet the capitalist market economy is incapable of resolving the problems it has created or of securing a liveable environment.
While global renewable electricity installations will grow at a slightly slower pace than modellers previously expected between 2025 and 2030, total capacity is still on track to double by decade’s end, with solar leading the way, the International Energy Agency says.
Report shows solar, wind booming worldwide, but fossil fuel generation rose in U.S., EU
Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis.
On the same day the prime minister talked about the importance of “climate competitiveness” in keeping Canada’s economy strong and secure, his Liberal government gave the go-ahead to a major new piece of fossil fuel infrastructure.
LNG Canada is slated to pay less than a third of the millions of dollars it will cost to connect to BC Hydro’s clean electricity grid instead of burning gas to fuel its operations.
The first phase of the massive export facility in Kitimat started up in June, launching BC’s bid to access global markets for the fossil fuel, particularly Asia.
