'Alternative' energy and less energy

23/05/23
Author: 
Elham Shabahat - Hakai Magazine
Scientists are concerned about how much damage sediment kicked up by mining equipment will do to seabeds and ecosystems closer to the surface. Photo via Shutterstock.

Just how harmful could these emerging operations have on oceans and marine ecosystems?

14/05/23

To: cleantransport@gov.bc.ca - CC: Hon. David Eby, Premier; Hon. George Heyman, Minister of

Environment and Climate Change Strategy; Hon. Rob Fleming, Minister of Transportation and

Infrastructure; Hon. Dan Coulter, Minister of State for Infrastructure and Transit; Hon. Josie Osborne,

Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation; Hon. Bowinn Ma, Minister of Emergency

Management and Climate Readiness; Hon. Adrian Dix, Minister of Health

Re: BC Clean Transportation Action Plan Recommendations

10/05/23
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Mining for rare earth metals for ever more battery-driven gadgetry is a vastly destructive and ultimately doomed response to the climate crisis argues the author. Photo via Shutterstock.

"A competent civilization would also tax out of existence monster homes. They also represent another issue no political leader wants to tackle: rampant economic inequality."

May 10, 2023

08/05/23
Author: 
Jean Chemnick, Pamela King and Robin Bravender
President Joe Biden speaks about climate change at Brayton Power Station in Somerset, Mass., last year. His administration is preparing to announce carbon regulations on power plants. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo

May 5, 2023

‘No other way to do it’: Biden about to go big on power plants

Historically strict EPA regulations on coal- and gas-fired power plants are due out. They face legal and political peril.

The Biden administration is poised to unveil its most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the nation’s thousands of power plants — an effort that’s certain to bring a legal and political attack from conservatives but may disappoint some supporters of the president’s climate agenda.

01/05/23
Author: 
Keith Brower Brown, Labor Notes.
Workers construct a 260-foot-long ship in Terrebonne Parish, La., April 3, 2023. The ship will serve offshore wind technicians and a warehouse for their tools as they operate and maintain wind farms. Ted Jackson/AP.

Apr. 29, 2023

Huge changes are coming for our workplaces, quick as a heat wave. This month Joe Biden inked new rules to make all-electrics the majority of new cars sold in America within a decade.

To charge all those batteries, many of the largest states are pushing to power their grids with two-thirds clean energy by the same deadline.

These green shifts have put billion-dollar signs in the eyes of bosses. Public cash is pouring out to subsidize cleaner manufacturing and energy. Corporations aim to cash in double by cutting unions out.

01/05/23
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
University of Victoria researchers with the Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery’s (PRIMED), deploying a wave energy monitoring buoy above, just got $2 million for a tidal energy project in B.C.'s Discovery Islands. Photo UVic

Apr.25, 2023

A new tidal energy pilot project to reduce dependence on diesel in B.C.’s remote coastal communities is set to launch after getting some critical funding.

23/04/23
Author: 
Pete Evans
Volkswagen's new battery plant in St. Thomas, Ont., could soon be making up to 1 million batteries a year, which will be used across the company's supply chain, including at this VW plant in Dresden, Germany where a worker is attaching an EV battery to an electric vehicle. (Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg)

Apr. 22, 2023

Government support for Volkswagen's massive new plant in Ontario is unprecedented

German automaker Volkswagen was in the city of St. Thomas, Ont., this week, announcing details of their plan to build their first electric battery plant in North America, in a move that backers say will super charge Southern Ontario into becoming a key cog in electric vehicle supply chains.

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