Energy Policy

Breaking Up With Fossil Fuels

Feb 13 2015 | IN Renewables | BY A\J Staff

Love is universal, and so is climate change. Read the winning entries in the Divest Waterloo letter writing contest.

Alabama civil rights movement: Selma to Montgomery march

What "Selma" Can Teach the Canadian Climate Movement

Jan 29 2015 | IN Politicians | BY Cameron Fenton

The civil rights movie is steeped in lessons in organizing and movement strategy – here’s how one group is applying those lessons to the Energy East pipeline.

Major North American Crude Oil & Dilbit Pipelines

Feb 2014 | IN Resource Wars 40.1 | BY A\J Staff

Interactive

An interactive map of where and how much crude oil and bitumen moves around the continent – and how much more we'll be moving soon.

Environment: On Canada’s Agenda Again

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Robert Paehlke

Online exclusive

The 'environment' has surged ahead of the 'economy' as the identified most-important-issue for Canadian voters with a fall election in the offing.

Bill C-69: Assessing the impacts

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Nengi Dublin-Green

What’s with the controversy around Bill C-69?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a key proponent of a New Green Deal

The Green New Deal: Our Best Chance on Climate

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Robert Paehlke

Online exclusive

The 'Green New Deal' addresses today’s two most urgent problems simultaneously: climate change and rising inequality.

Jill Pelto’s Landscape of Change uses data about sea level rise, glacier volume

The Long Emergency

Mar 20 2019 | IN Technology | BY Robert Paehlke

Climate action is profoundly urgent precisely because sufficient change is inevitably slow

MoCreebec Eeyoud Council in Moose Factory, ON/Joshua Russell

Powering the north

Nov 28 2018 | IN Traditional Knowledge | BY Braydon Black

Improving energy efficiencies are changing how northern Ontario’s MoCreebec people are taking control of their power consumption.

Wind farm in southwestern Ontario/Michael Swan. 2015. CC BY-ND 2.0

Doug Ford’s energy shake-up could cost Ontario

Jul 29 2018 | IN Renewables | BY Mark Winfield

Setting aside lawsuits from shuttering wind projects, Ontario is turning its back on unprecedented opportunities in the renewable energy and clean tech sectors.

Seascapes on the Scotian Basin (Photo by Simon Ryder-Burbidge.)

Offshore: Mud and Marine Spills in Canada's North Atlantic

Jul 24 2018 | IN Pollution | BY Simon Ryder-Burbidge

On June 22, 2018, BP spilled 136,000 litres of offshore drilling lubricant off the coast of Nova Scotia, one of the largest such spills in Atlantic Canada's history. But it was far from unique.

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