Fossil Fuel Oil Sands Producers Have Been Blowing Smoke Up Our Buts For Years
When it comes to carbon emissions, the oil sands operations in Western Canada are super polluters. It isn’t just the greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere but also volatile organic...
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Producing Carbon Fibre from Asphaltenes Could Provide A Future for Canada’s...
In 2020, the Alberta provincial government of Canada launched the Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge (CFGC). Alberta is one of two provinces in my country that has oil sand deposits that have been mined for...
View ArticleTo Save the Oil Sands Alberta Wants $30 Billion for Carbon Capture Projects
Jason Kenney, Premier of Alberta, has partially funded a canceled pipeline project leaving the province on the hook for more than $1.5 billion with loan guarantees amounting to nearly $7 billion in...
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Canada Struggles to Reduce Carbon Emissions With the Oil Sands
January 30, 2020 – The oil sands of Alberta and Saskatchewan, states the Canadian Oil Sands Factbook, a publication put out by The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), will contribute...
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A Week After Canada’s 43rd Election and the Parties of Climate Change Action...
October 28, 2019 – The Liberal government of Canada was returned to office by the electorate last Monday albeit with 20 fewer seats and a minority in Parliament. But almost 65% of voters marked their...
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In Canada Federal-Provincial Politics Has Usurped Good Policy
May 31, 2018 – The Canadian federal government with its minority partner, the province of Alberta, took the bait from a blackmailing oil pipeline company, Kinder Morgan, agreeing to pay the latter $4.5...
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Fossil Fuel Industry Dilemmas – Part 1: Pipeline Battles
April 18, 2018 – In Canada the country is facing a confrontation that includes the federal government, two provinces, First Nations, and environmental groups over a pipeline from Alberta’s oil sands to...
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Fossil Fuel Energy Companies Risking It All Against Limits Indicated by COP21...
March 8, 2018 – When Bill Nye, the Science Guy, met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to debate Canada’s climate change and energy policies, Nye brought up the Kinder Morgan TransMountain Pipeline,...
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A New Use for Oil Sands Wastewater: Extracting Lithium for Batteries
January 12, 2017 – With the approval of the Trans-Mountain pipeline by both British Columbia and Canada’s federal governments, the oil sands aren’t going away in the near future. The environmental...
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David Suzuki Asks Why Canada Fights Climate Change on One Hand While Fueling...
October 14, 2016 – In the latest posting from David Suzuki he questions current Canadian governments (federal, provincial and territorial) on their decision making when it comes to addressing climate...
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Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Still Hanging Around
February 6, 2016 – Carbon capture and storage or CCS is seen by some to be the technological fix that will help us continue to use fossil fuels to generate energy for the foreseeable future. The vision...
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American President Makes Climate Change Statement by Rejecting the Keystone...
November 7, 2015 – It took seven years of political maneuvering, but the current application to build a pipeline from Canada’s oil sands production facilities to Gulf Coast refineries in the United...
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Maladaptation Related to Climate Change a Growing Concern
August 16, 2015 – When my wife and I were in Florida last winter we drove along A1A, the roadway next to the Atlantic Ocean, where the City of Fort Lauderdale was in the process of spending $11.8...
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Business as Usual in the Alberta Oil Patch May be Over
May 7, 2015 – The election of the New Democrats (NDP), a socialist-leaning party, to lead the province of Alberta may have significant ramifications for Canada in its fight to reduce its carbon...
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Anglican Church Divesting Investments in Fossil Fuels
May 1, 2015 – The divestment movement that began in American universities, progressed to include Rockefellers among its successes, has now won over the Church of England. Yes the Anglican Church is...
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The Fate of an Oil Sands Pipeline Appears to be Doomed For the Wrong Reasons
January 7, 2015 – I’m not sure if the Keystone XL is the most notorious pipeline that has yet to be built but it sure has come to symbolize to environmentalists a line in the sand that cannot be...
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Canadian Investment in Renewables Surpasses That of the Oil Sands
December 3, 2014 – Yesterday CBC News reported a study on the state of green energy technology in the country. Conducted by Clean Energy Canada, the report indicated that over the past half-decade more...
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Canada’s Federal Government Taken to Task by Environment Commissioner
October 9, 2014 – Imagine being taken out to the wood shed for a paddling by a commissioner your government appointed as an environment watchdog. That’s what happened this week in my country, Canada....
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To the United States Congress Canada Equals “Oil Sands” and Very Little Else
September 8, 2014 – Yesterday’s published expose on Canada’s promotion of the oil sands, appearing in the Pullitzer Prize winning “Inside Climate News,” is an indictment of the country’s federal...
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Canadian Provincial Premiers Decide on a National Energy Strategy that...
August 30, 2014 – In a rare display of unanimity Canada’s provincial leaders at their annual conference have outlined a national energy strategy. That strategy includes an “essential link between...
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