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What could and what should Budget 2012 look like on energy and climate change?
hannah Posted On March 29, 2012


The Harper government will deliver their first majority government budget tomorrow. There is a lot of anxiety going into this budget with big cuts expected. While the government is denying it is an austerity budget, leaked documents have certainly set […]


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Feds list First Nations, green groups as oilsands ‘adversaries’
hannah Posted On January 26, 2012


OTTAWA — Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has labelled aboriginal groups and environmentalists as “adversaries,” while describing the National Energy Board, an independent federal regulator of industry, as an “ally” in its public relations strategy to polish […]


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Top climate change stories of 2011
hannah Posted On January 5, 2012


For Earth’s climate system, 2011 was an extraordinarily turbulent year. The United States saw a series of record-busting extremes, from a devastating tornado season to an epic drought in a vital agricultural region. The fusillade of extreme events kept global warming […]


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Improvements to Feed-In Tariff Will Increase Ontario’s Competitiveness
Christian Holz Posted On December 15, 2011


Improvements to Feed-In Tariff Will Increase Ontario’s Competitiveness: Unprecedented Environment and Industry Coalition Delivers Proposal to Strengthen Ontario’s Renewable Energy Policy Toronto, ON – The Green Energy Act Alliance and Shine Ontario Association have joined forces to present a clear […]


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Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas
Christian Holz Posted On December 14, 2011


Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region. The scale […]


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Climate Action Network Canada responds to outcome of UN climate talks in Durban.
hannah Posted On December 11, 2011


December 11, 2011 (Durban, South Africa) Following an extra day of negotiations, the UN climate change talks in Durban, South Africa have finished. Hannah McKinnon, Campaigns Director of Climate Action Network Canada has responded as follows: “The most important thing […]


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2000 Durban students ROAR for climate action @COP17
Christian Holz Posted On December 8, 2011


This morning, members of TckTckTck and CAN joined 2000 Durban students in creating the world’s largest human lion on the beach. Their goal? Urge leaders at COP 17 to have the courage to create a breakthrough agreement that will ensure […]


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CEC examines air pollution from North America’s 3,000 fossil-fuel power plants
Christian Holz Posted On December 8, 2011


Montreal, 7 December 2011—North America’s 3,000 fossil fuel-burning power plants continue to produce two-thirds of the region’s electricity and, at the same time, generate the majority of certain harmful air pollutants and emit more greenhouse gases than any other industrial […]


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Climate Change Performance Index 2012
Christian Holz Posted On December 6, 2011


“This year’s Index shows worrying results. The worldwide addiction to coal has not been stopped, but rather increased. 80 percent of the index is influenced by emissions trends and absolute emissions levels”, says Jan Burck, Author of the Index at […]


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Clean-up Crew Exposes Severe Oil Contamination at DFAIT
Christian Holz Posted On December 5, 2011


As Canadian negotiators meet in Durban, South Africa for COP 17, an Oil Clean-up Crew visited the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) this morning, mops and cleaning supplies in hand, to clean up the oil industry’s influence […]


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