“European utilities with bulging renewable energy portfolios are showing that the way out of the coronavirus slump is coloured green,” Bloomberg writes.
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Fossil Fuel-Backed Climate Deniers Rush to Promote Michael Moore Documentary ‘Planet of The Humans’
Planet of the Humans investigates the environmental footprint of renewable technologies such as wind, solar and biomass, and argues that the green movement has sold out to corporate interests.
EI claimants are going weeks without income as federal call system slows to a crawl | CBC News
boyfriend were working four phones at once — calling Service Canada’s
employment insurance information line over and over, for hours on end,
desperately trying to find someone who could tell her why her EI
application had been denied after she lost her job due to the pandemic.
Petrossi
is one of many Canadians who have gone weeks without benefits because
of problems with their EI applications — problems they’re struggling to
sort out now because they can’t get anyone on the phone.
“I
haven’t had a paycheque since March 15,” said Petrossi, who worked as an
early childhood educator for the YMCA in Oakville, Ont., until COVID-19
shut it down. “I potentially may not have a job until September and I
don’t know how much longer I can continue going like this.”
Low Prices Have Global LNG Market ‘Imploding Before Our Eyes’ – The Energy Mix
The list includes the C$1.8-billion Woodfibre LNG project in British Columbia, where construction has been delayed until the summer of 2021, and the proposed Goldboro LNG project in Nova Scotia, where Pieridae Energy Ltd. recently delayed an investment decision it had been planning for this fall. IEEFA also identifies three projects in Australia, two in Africa, two U.S. projects with linkages to either Canada or Mexico, one solely in the U.S, and one in Qatar.
The trend to criminalise homeless people continues. In a number of cities in France and elsewhere, homeless people are being ticketed for being on the streets in violation of lockdown and physical distancing rules, though they have nowhere to go.