BREAKING: Canada Places Dead Last on Energy Use, Fourth-Last Overall in Global Climate Change Performance Index – The Energy Mix: “Despite positive rhetoric from Canadian leaders, experts cite substantial discrepancies between the goals the government has set and the implementation of the policies necessary to achieve them,” states the two-page Canada summary published alongside the main report. “With a low rating for national climate policy, experts show alarm about considerable financial support provided to fossil fuel companies, and significant extraction and export of both thermal and metallurgical coal. They also cite a continued increase in oil and gas production, which has helped expand the country’s GHG emissions.”

Canadian climate hawks who responded to the CCPI survey acknowledge “that market economics are strongly propelling development of new renewable energy in Canada’s traditionally fossil fuel-heavy regions, despite the lack of a clear commitment for setting or implementing renewable energy targets, both at the national and provincial levels,” the summary states. But they “cite a troubling recent emphasis on supporting ‘small’ modular nuclear reactors, and potentially even an interest in considering nuclear as a green source of supply. Experts have further called on the government to update its extremely weak 2030 emissions reduction target and correct the course of its plans to meet it.”

BREAKING: Canada Places Dead Last on Energy Use, Fourth-Last Overall in Global Climate Change Performance Index – The Energy Mix: “Despite positive rhetoric from Canadian leaders, experts cite substantial discrepancies between the goals the government has set and the implementation of the policies necessary to achieve them,” states the two-page Canada summary published alongside the main report. “With a low rating for national climate policy, experts show alarm about considerable financial support provided to fossil fuel companies, and significant extraction and export of both thermal and metallurgical coal. They also cite a continued increase in oil and gas production, which has helped expand the country’s GHG emissions.”Canadian climate hawks who responded to the CCPI survey acknowledge “that market economics are strongly propelling development of new renewable energy in Canada’s traditionally fossil fuel-heavy regions, despite the lack of a clear commitment for setting or implementing renewable energy targets, both at the national and provincial levels,” the summary states. But they “cite a troubling recent emphasis on supporting ‘small’ modular nuclear reactors, and potentially even an interest in considering nuclear as a green source of supply. Experts have further called on the government to update its extremely weak 2030 emissions reduction target and correct the course of its plans to meet it.”Read More

Ottawa has spent $240B fighting COVID-19 in just 8 months. A CBC investigation follows the money | CBC News: This story is part of The Big Spend, a CBC News
investigation examining the unprecedented $240 billion the federal
government handed out during the first eight months of the pandemic.

The
federal government has spent an average of $952 million a day fighting
the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a CBC News analysis.

Figures
compiled from federal government websites, corporate financial reports,
the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer and through access to
information requests indicate that Ottawa made $240 billion in payments
and transfers to individuals, businesses, organizations and government
entities between the beginning of the lockdown on March 13 and Nov. 20.

Ottawa has spent $240B fighting COVID-19 in just 8 months. A CBC investigation follows the money | CBC News: This story is part of The Big Spend, a CBC News
investigation examining the unprecedented $240 billion the federal
government handed out during the first eight months of the pandemic. The
federal government has spent an average of $952 million a day fighting
the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a CBC News analysis.Figures
compiled from federal government websites, corporate financial reports,
the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer and through access to
information requests indicate that Ottawa made $240 billion in payments
and transfers to individuals, businesses, organizations and government
entities between the beginning of the lockdown on March 13 and Nov. 20.Read More

Because IPCC: A True Story from 100 Years in the Future: What is the IPCC?

The IPCC Is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Since 1988 they’ve been producing reports that are the consensus of the world’s scientists & experts and the consensus of the world’s governments too. But almost nobody knows that the reason we know what we know about climate change is because of the IPCC.

Because IPCC: A True Story from 100 Years in the Future: What is the IPCC?The IPCC Is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Since 1988 they’ve been producing reports that are the consensus of the world’s scientists & experts and the consensus of the world’s governments too. But almost nobody knows that the reason we know what we know about climate change is because of the IPCC.Read More

‘Strong Hearts to the Front!’: Indigenous Water Protectors Take Direct Action Against Minnesota Tar Sands Pipeline: Indigenous-led water protectors on Friday engaged in multiple direct
actions against Enbridge’s highly controversial Line 3 tar sands
pipeline in Minnesota, on the same day that state regulators denied a
request from two tribes to stop the Canadian company from proceeding
with the project.

“Clean
water and unpolluted land capable of providing sustenance is essential
to our survival… [and] Line 3 poses an existential threat to our
well-being.”
—Minnesota Chippewa Tribe

Water protectors blocked pipeline traffic and climbed and occupied
trees as part of Friday’s actions. Urging other Indigenous peoples and
allies to “take a stand,” the Anishinaabe activists at one of the
protests told other Native Americans that “your ancestors are here too.

‘Strong Hearts to the Front!’: Indigenous Water Protectors Take Direct Action Against Minnesota Tar Sands Pipeline: Indigenous-led water protectors on Friday engaged in multiple direct
actions against Enbridge’s highly controversial Line 3 tar sands
pipeline in Minnesota, on the same day that state regulators denied a
request from two tribes to stop the Canadian company from proceeding
with the project.“Clean
water and unpolluted land capable of providing sustenance is essential
to our survival… [and] Line 3 poses an existential threat to our
well-being.”—Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Water protectors blocked pipeline traffic and climbed and occupied
trees as part of Friday’s actions. Urging other Indigenous peoples and
allies to “take a stand,” the Anishinaabe activists at one of the
protests told other Native Americans that “your ancestors are here too.Read More

Water for Coal Developments: Where Will It Come From?:

Water in the South Saskatchewan River Basin (SSRB) – and especially within the Oldman River Basin – is in short supply.

Water for Coal Developments: Where Will It Come From?: Water in the South Saskatchewan River Basin (SSRB) – and especially within the Oldman River Basin – is in short supply.Read More