By Heather Smith Time to get excited, everyone: There’s a freshly leaked document from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in town, courtesy of the Peruvian website Redge.org. The mega-secretive, three-years-in-the-making international trade deal that would create a NAFTA-style agreement among the […]
By Geoff Dembicki We’re not totally screwed. I doubt Ethan Zindler would use those exact words to describe the rapid global transition to cleaner forms of energy he’s spent the past eight years or so tracking for Bloomberg New Energy Finance. […]
By Kevin Grandia There is a brewing controversy swirling around longtime CBC commentator Rex Murphy and his relationship with Canada’s oil industry. As long time readers of DeSmog know, Murphy has been a vocal supporter of the oilsands industry and […]
Par Alexander Panetta Une juge a invalidé, mercredi, une loi du Nebraska permettant à l’oléoduc Keystone XL de traverser cet État du centre des États-Unis. La juge du comté de Lancaster Stephanie Lacy a invalidé l’approbation, par le gouverneur de […]
By Mitch Potter WASHINGTON—Canada’s lobbying campaign for the Keystone XL pipeline took an unexpected blow Wednesday when a Nebraska judge struck down an industry-friendly law used to determine its path through the state, leaving the project in regulatory limbo. The […]
Ensuring the environmental integrity of Quebec’s cap-andtrade system for global warming emissions Authors: Dale Marshall and Ian Bruce, David Suzuki Foundation, Steven Guilbeault, Équiterre.
As governments and societies around the world grapple with the recent economic meltdown, there is a need to turn this crisis into an opportunity, to rethink our northern economy so that it is more durable, ecologically sustainable, and locally resilient.
The purpose of this guide is to provide congregations with information and suggestions on energy efficiency and how to retrofit their place of worship. This guide complements the information provided at the Interfaith Symposium on Energy Efficiency hosted at St. […]
Decades ago, energy crises forced Nova Scotia to choose an energy path for the future; that choice was to exploit the local coal re source because it was cheap and effective and supported local employment. It is now evident that […]
There is a growing consensus that we must stop the planet from warming by 2 degrees C to avoid the most serious consequences of climate change. This objective requires industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25-30% […]
