OTTAWA – Technology, not taxes, transformation, not transition – those were some of the themes brought up by the federal Conservative Party of Canada in its dissenting opinion on a “just transition.” The House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural...
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg made a dire prediction on June 21, 2018. On that day she tweeted, “A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five...
OTTAWA – The report’s name may not include the term “just transition,” but the House of Commons Natural Resources Committee report released on June 19 was all about it. And the report means to change Canada in almost every manner imaginable, from powering vehicles and...
Alberta has 1,209 megawatts of nameplate installed solar generation capacity. And at noon on June 20, the second longest day of the year, all of that solar generation was producing half of the rated capacity. At 11:00 a.m. it was producing around 400 megawatts,...
The House of Commons Natural Resources Committee tabled its report on “Creating a Fair and Equitable Canadian Energy Transformation” late in the day on Monday, June 19, just a few days before Parliament is expected to rise for the summer break. The...