Over the next few decades, as we push towards decarbonizing everything, every new project is going to be asked one question: can this good or service that you are offering be done without fossil fuels? This is a question that has permeated many places, but it has not seemed to move its way through Alberta’s […]
Category: Environmental
Back in 2015, I started asking a simple question: is Alberta ready? Whenever I talked to politicians or entrepreneurs or thought leaders, I asked that same simple question. I asked that question for one reason: History told me that Alberta’s politicians didn’t understand that the rest of the world was preparing themselves for a decarbonized […]
In 2018, the Toronto Paramedic Service (TPS) introduced 11 hybrid-electric ambulances into their fleet. Like many other North American cities, Toronto has been working on reducing its carbon footprint. The adoption of hybrid-electric ambulances was just one step in changing its consolidated vehicle fleet. In the City of Toronto Consolidated Green Fleet Plan 2014-2018, one […]
“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – 1968) It seems that Google is looking to revolutionize yet another industry. Google dethroned Yahoo!, Ask.com, Netscape, AOL and Microsoft to become the leading Internet Search Provider. […]
“Bruce has its own wind farm. Hawthorne gets paid $116 a MW for power from Huron Wind. For Bruce B, that figure is $52; Bruce A $68 ‘after having spent $7 billion on it,’ he says. ‘The capacity factor of the wind farm is 24%; the nuclear plant is 90%.’ And there are no emissions […]
“And so here we are, a country with a government that boasts of our “energy superpower” status but doesn’t even have a national energy plan. A country willing to sacrifice its manufacturing industry, its opportunities in the green-energy economy, its future, and the health of its people for the sake of short-term profits. A country […]
“I avail myself with relief of the opportunity of speaking to the people of the United States. I do not know how long such liberties will be allowed. The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean […]
“Progressive Conservative MPP Michael Harris (Kitchener—Conestoga) wants to eliminate two programs run by government-mandated organizations that oversee the recycling of hazardous materials and electronic waste. Industries pay estimated recycling fees to Stewardship Ontario, which handles hazardous waste, and Ontario Electronic Stewardship, which is responsible for electronic waste. ‘There is no reason why producers of hazardous […]
“Dr. Suzuki’s remarks on externalities were clarified in an interview given to the magazine Common Ground: ‘I won’t go into a long critique, but currently nature and nature’s services – cleansing, filtering water, creating the atmosphere, taking carbon out of the air, putting oxygen back in, preventing erosion, pollinating flowering plants – perform dozens of […]
“Stephen Harper’s response to the Obama administration’s punting of the Keystone XL pipeline decision was decisive. The Prime Minister made exporting to Asia and China a ‘national priority’ and is looking for foreign capital to support the oil sands. Every economic nationalist on the right and the left should be applauding. American rejection has driven […]
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