Industry Spin

Hydrogen won’t protect pensions from gas utilities' death spiral

15/01/25

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John Woodside

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Art by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Jan. 15, 2025

Pension funds are gambling with Canadians’ retirement savings by placing multi-billion dollar bets on hydrogen's ability to rescue old, polluting gas pipelines from terminal decline, according to a climate finance advocacy organization.

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Pathways Alliance's flagship project looks like a big money loser

12/01/25

Author:

John Woodside

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National Observer

Jan. 9. 2025

The Pathways Alliance’s proposed carbon capture and storage megaproject has not begun construction or even received approval, and yet its business model is already collapsing, according to a global think tank.

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Recycling won’t solve our planet-killing plastic-pollution problem

30/12/24

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Khan, Adnan R.

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The Globe and Mail

Bales of crushed, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles in California (Wikimedia Commons)

Dec. 20, 2024

Efforts to target the plastic problem with better recycling, rather than a production cap, ignore how such programs turn potentially hazardous plastic waste into a commodity, fuelling a massive illicit trade

If you’re at all concerned about the alarming growth of plastic waste clogging our oceans and leaching toxins into our earth, this has not been a good year.

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10 years after B.C.’s worst mining waste disaster, company faces charges

13/12/24

Author:

Sarah Cox

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The Narwhal

Imperial Metals has been charged under the federal Fisheries Act more than 10 years after a tailings storage facility failure at its Mount Polley mine in B.C. sent 25 billion litres of toxic sludge into Polley Lake, Hazeltine Creek and Quesnel Lake. Photo: Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian Press

Dec. 10, 2024

Imperial Metals now wants to expand the Mount Polley mine and continue discharging effluent into a lake. Conservation advocates wonder if charges today will reduce future risks

Imperial Metals, the company that owns the Mount Polley mine in B.C.’s Interior, has been charged on 15 counts under the federal Fisheries Act.

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Vancouver council's gas plan goes up in smoke after fierce public pushback

30/11/24

Author:

Seth Klein

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National Observer

Nov. 29, 2024

It wasn’t easy, and it was uncomfortably close. But late Wednesday evening, the gas industry’s effort to re-introduce fossil fuel heating in new homes and buildings in Vancouver was mercifully defeated.

Mobilizing to confront the climate emergency desperately requires forward momentum. Instead, thanks to the unrelenting persistence of the fossil gas industry, countless Vancouver-area climate activists and organizations just spent untold hours over the last four months re-prosecuting a fight they had already won.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

An Australian Coal Baron Subverts Alberta’s Democracy

29/11/24

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Andrew Nikiforuk

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The Tyee

The Elkview coal mine across the border in BC could be a preview of the future for Grassy Mountain. Photo via Teck Resources.

Nov. 27, 2024

A bogus referendum this week could bring a risky coal mine to the Rockies.

The outsized influence of billionaires in the workings of ailing democracies has struck again.

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The Price Is Wrong by Brett Christophers review – why capitalism can’t save the planet

25/11/24

Author:

Randeep Ramesh

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The Guardian

A coal-fired power plant operates near wind turbines in Niederaussem, Germany. Photograph: Michael Probst/AP

Feb. 15, 2024

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Canada's Reparations at COP 29 a Fraction of Subsidies to Big Oil

19/11/24

Author:

Mitch Anderson

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DeSmog

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced a $2 billion climate financing platform at COP29. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Nov. 15, 2024

Canada Promises Climate Reparations at COP29 While Courting Big Oil at Home

With spotlight on politicians and their pledges in Baku, fossil fuel lobbyists are racking up private meetings with Trudeau’s government.

Steven Guilbeault came to the COP29 climate change negotiations in Azerbaijan ready to make what the federal Liberal government deemed a “major” announcement.

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