'Alternative' energy and less energy

09/01/26
Author: 
Damien Gayle
Harjeet Singh has been arrested along with his wife, Jyoti Awasthi. Photograph: Igor Kovalenko/EPA

Jan. 8, 2026

Police have raided the home of one of India’s leading environmental activists over claims his campaigning for a treaty to cut the use of fossil fuels was undermining the national interest.

Investigators from India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) claim Harjeet Singh and his wife, Jyoti Awasthi, co-founders of Satat Sampada (Nature Forever), were paid almost £500,000 to advocate for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty (FFNPT).

09/01/26
Author: 
John Woodside
Art by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Jan. 8, 2026

In the wake of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s stunning capture by US forces, Scotiabank CEO Scott Thompson said the “Trump doctrine” — US domination of the Western Hemisphere — will benefit the bank he runs. 

05/01/26
Author: 
Andrew MacLeod
BC Green Leader Emily Lowan says the party needs to work ‘on building power with working people, renters and young people across BC and focusing in on this message of wealth, inequality and driving forward long-term solutions.’ Photo via BC Greens.

Jan. 5, 2026

The party’s new leader talks taxes, rallying support and the NDP’s drift to the right.

Headed into the holiday break, BC Green Leader Emily Lowan was hoping for gains as her party renegotiates its agreement with the governing NDP to work together on shared priorities.

05/01/26
Author: 
Danielle Beurteaux
Remediation workers walk the shoreline of Hazeltine Creek near the town of Likely, BC in 2020. The creek was one of several bodies of water contaminated with tailings from the Mount Polley gold and copper mine when its tailings dam breached in 2014. File photo courtesy Mount Polley/Flickr

Jan. 5, 2026

The Bloom Lake iron mine is expanding. The Quebec mine, which started in 2018, has plans to more than double annual production next year. The estimated 572 million cubic metres (more than nine million shipping containers) of tailings waste created by this mine will end up in eight lakes and 37 rivers, where it will remain forever. 

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