By guest contributor Derek Leahy The National Energy Board (NEB), Canada’s federal pipeline regulator, has come under tremendous public criticism over the last three years for limiting public participation in its review […]
By guest contributor Derek Leahy For five long years the federal government and the oil industry have lobbied against the European Union labeling oilsands (also called tar sands) bitumen as ‘dirty oil’ […]
By guest contributor Derek Leahy Renewable energy — energy from natural sources that replenish themselves at the same rate they are used — accounted for sixty-seven per cent of Canada’s electricity generation […]
Image credit: Transport Canada By guest contributor Derek Leahy At the end of May (29th of May) an oil tanker carrying between 500,000 and 600,000 barrels of western Canadian oilsands (also called […]
By guest contributor Derek Leahy The National Energy Board approved Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline project last week. “[This] decision shows the system is broken. Line 9 puts millions of people and every […]
By guest contributor Franke James http://www.solarwebserver.org/widgets/co2toaster.swf Silencing Scientists “There was trouble of this kind here in the George W. Bush years, when scientists were asked to toe the party line on climate […]
Greenpeace unfurl a banner hinting that the Polish coal industry run the country. By Anders Lorenzen This year’s round of climate talks have been dominated by developments not central to the talks […]
Experts warn that reliance on US fracking for Ontario’s gas may increase costs and environmental damage.
By guest contributor Derek Leahy Ontario’s largest mining find in decades – a 5000 square km region known as the Ring of Fire – won’t be developed by Cleveland-based Cliffs Natural Resources […]
‘Banned on the Hill’ book cover. Credit: Franke James. By Anders Lorenzen Franke James, a Canadian author, artist and activist, is an outright critic of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his […]
A greener life, a greener world 