In what is being considered a first by a member of the federal Conservatives, Kitchener-Waterloo MP Peter Braid stated publicly on CBC News Network’s Power and Politics that recent extreme weather and climate change are connected. “We are seeing the […]
By Carl Duivenvoorden Climate change is no laughing matter, but a book on climate change I read recently included this joke: A man is walking down a road in India. Suddenly he spots a crowd of panicked people rushing toward […]
Toronto, ON – In June 2013, severe flooding displaced over 100,000 Albertans in what has been called the worst flooding in the province’s history. With damages estimated at over $5 billion dollars and the activation of 32 local states of […]
By Bob Weber, The Canadian Press EDMONTON – Simmering disputes over the oilsands between Alberta aboriginals and the provincial and federal governments will break into the open in 2014 as virtually every one of the many recent changes in oversight […]
by Todd Woody Back in 2009 when China announced it would build the world’s largest photovoltaic power plant in the Mongolian desert, it choose a US company, First Solar, to construct the 2,000-megawatt (MW) project. Yesterday, China unveiled plans for […]
by Mike De Souza OTTAWA — Federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq set aside a proposal from her department earlier this year to publicly state that the Harper government recognized scientific evidence that humans were “mostly responsible for climate change” and […]
2013 Year in Review With 2013 drawing to a close, we thought now would be a great time to look back on the year that was in the world of climate action. The last year was marked by some very […]
by Mike De Souza OTTAWA — More than $100 million in cuts are underway at the federal department in charge of protecting Canada’s water and oceans, despite recommendations from top bureaucrats that it needs to increase spending for both environmental […]
By Bill McKibben, December 17, 2013 9:00 AM ET Two years ago, on a gorgeous November day, 12,000 activists surrounded the White House to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Signs we carried featured quotes from Barack Obama in 2008: […]
by John Mashey Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle’s long-awaited, peer-reviewed study “Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate change counter-movement organizations” was published Dec. 20 in the journal Climatic Change. The Drexel press release, “Not Just the […]
