Will Canada make firm on its climate commitments at COP27?

At the conference, former Canadian environment minister Catherine McKenna, who is in charge of a UN panel on reaching net-zero emissions, lambasted these same companies for committing to net zero while at the same pushing for new fossil fuel projects.

“We set very clear red lines on greenwashing. This is what you cannot do, if you announce publicly, you put up your hand and you say I’m a climate leader,” McKenna said. “You cannot claim to be net zero by continuing to build or invest in new fossil fuel supply.”

She took particular aim at Canadian companies, which are using record profits to buy back shares and increase executive pay, rather than invest in cleaner energy.

“They ask the government for subsidies and then they say it’s not enough,” McKenna said.
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An alternative way of thinking comes to the Legislature – AlbertaPrimeTimes.com

Politicians can change or even reverse policies. They can adapt their speaking style, looks, and alliances. They find it exceptionally difficult to change their basic ways of thinking.

Premier Danielle Smith is firmly habituated to looking for what she calls alternative explanations, meaning reasons to distrust and attack anything she considers to be orthodoxy or the advice of technical experts.

Her mental habits lead her constantly toward highly suspect sources of theories and advice, and into ludicrous or dangerous positions. Saying that Alberta Health Services “manufactured” a staff shortage is only one of a spectacular and expanding list of crackpot notions.

That leaves many questions open until the election next May. The election outcome remains highly uncertain because the New Democrats have to: control their own extreme fringe; play down their association with federal party leader Jagmeet Singh; sell their own supporters on the need to prioritize economic policy; and, generally persuade people they are not like, for example, the self-righteous environmentalist vandals who throw soup or mashed potatoes at historic paintings.
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(1) ‘Broken promises’: Is Canada falling short on its climate change goals? – National | Globalnews.ca

Here come the excuses…

With bold plans being laid out to tackle the ever-growing threat of climate change at COP27, an annual United Nations conference, experts say actions should speak louder than words and richer nations, like Canada, need to step up the fight.

As greenhouse gas emissions continue to go up, extreme weather events, exacerbated by climate change, are becoming more frequent and destructive.

But as world leaders and climate negotiators look for ways to implement global climate goals, observers are less optimistic about progress, saying countries are already falling short on their previous pledges.

Read more: Climate change could hit Canada’s GDP by 6% over long term, new report warns

“It’s not realistic to expect that this COP will … fix a lot of things because there are so many structural problems and so many … broken promises,” said Jessica Green, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto.

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The World’S Largest Net-Zero Hydrogen Facility In The Edmonton Region

Air Products https://taprootedmonton.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cf49a42db023942d337b0dabf&id=4aa1b30387&e=a9f3b03d8a has announced it in federal and provincial funding for its $1.6-billion net-zero hydrogen energy complex. The Alberta government said the Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program https://taprootedmonton.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cf49a42db023942d337b0dabf&id=cb6589674c&e=a9f3b03d8a would provide $161.5 million in grants over three years once the facility is operational. The province will supply an additional $15 million through Emissions Reduction Alberta. Edmonton Global https://edmontonglobal.ca/news/funding-advances-landmark-hydrogen-project-in-the-edmonton-region/?utm_source=Taproot+Edmonton&utm_campaign=4cfb48dc3b-TAPROOTYEG_PULSE_2022_11_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ef1adf0932-4cfb48dc3b-420497866&mc_cid=4cfb48dc3b&mc_eid=a9f3b03d8a said the funding is a “key milestone” that will “support building the world’s largest net-zero hydrogen facility in the Edmonton region.”

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