Photo credit: 1010 via Flickr. By Derek Leahy Federal and provincial climate policies unveiled over the last year are paving the way for Canada to massively increase the amount of energy the […]
Video interview: the anti tar sands movement, Fort McMurray fire and climate change
The tar sands in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Photo credit: Kris Krug via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen With the recent devastating Fort McMurray forest fires, the controversy surrounding the tar sands industry has been […]
Trudeau’s national climate meeting seen as opportunity to advance clean energy economy
Photo credit: PMO Photo Gallery. By Derek Leahy Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed Wednesday the federal government will meet with Indigenous leaders and premiers in Vancouver in early March in the […]
Alberta’s carbon levy: a primer
Photo credit: Kris Krug. By guest contributor Derek Leahy It may come as a surprise to some that Alberta pioneered carbon pricing — not just in Canada, but for all of North […]
What’s stopping Canada from putting a price on carbon?
Stephen Harper: Photo credit: PM Photo Gallery. By guest contributor Derek Leahy For the first time in several years, carbon pricing in Canada is back on the national radar. Recently a group of more […]
Canada’s pipeline review process broken but still important, critics say
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 […]
Canadian journalist recalls his UN climate talks experience
Photo: Derek (left) interviewing Stephen (right)in Vienna. Credit: Renee Leahy. By guest contributor Derek Leahy With international climate change negotiations set to begin on December 1st in Lima, Peru, I decided to […]
Opinion: They tore down the wall, we can stop the pipelines
By guest contributor Derek Leahy Sunday last week marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. When I still lived in Berlin, my favourite November 9th activity was to […]
U.S. joins Canada and oil industry’s lobbying offensive to keep Europe open to oilsands imports
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’ […]
Is Canada putting all of its eggs in the oilsands basket?
By guest contributor Derek Leahy The recent shelving of the Joslyn mine oilsands project in Alberta is a reminder of the fragile economics of the oilsands. No economic formula could be found […]
A greener life, a greener world 