As supporters celebrate the Liberals’ ‘return to nuclear,’ critics decry ‘dangerous’ distraction
Speaking alongside MPs from the Green Party, the Bloc Québécois and the NDP, Liberal MP Jenica Atwin told reporters on April 25 that she is concerned about proposals to build new nuclear reactors near the Bay of Fundy.
Bill S-5: is there time to improve federal control of toxic substances and genetically modified organisms?
Parliament has been considering its review of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act for a long time, and there is still time to incorporate real change into a statute that has not been meaningfully amended in over twenty years.
Canada, U.S. must work together to protect the Central Arctic Ocean
We need a new agreement to address shipping and deep-sea mining, and to establish a robust international framework that can protect and restore the Central Arctic Ocean.
Canada’s climate fight is full of question marks
In one of five recent reports, Environment and Sustainable Development Commissioner Jerry DeMarco is raising alarm over the federal government’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For one, the commissioner found that the department leading Canada’s climate fight—Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)—doesn’t know the degree to which the country’s greenhouse gas regulations have contributed […]
Alberta regulator apologizes for communications failures at committee hearing on oil sands tailings leaks
With an election looming in Alberta and criticism still coming in from the affected Indigenous nations, Conservative and NDP MPs at the House Environment Committee spar over what the Alberta government knew about Imperial Oil tailings leaks, and when.
What goes ‘moo’ and then explodes?
Since the rise of agriculture, humans have increased the mass of animal life on land fourfold, but wild animals now account for only four per cent of that biomass.
Indigenous leaders call on House committee to treat Imperial Oil tailings leaks as evidence of larger failure of regulation
Indigenous leaders appearing in front of the House Environment Committee on April 17 expressed frustration at needing to travel all the way to Ottawa ‘to remind this government of its duties and responsibilities.’
The choice is clear: Canada needs a hard cap on oil and gas pollution
Canada must limit and reduce oil and gas pollution if it wants to achieve its climate targets. But how that is done is equally as important as the fact that it must be done.
We’re all accountable for anthropogenic climate change, folks
If we consider anthropogenic climate change as a global problem which affects us and our governments, but would rather assign the accountability to others: get over it. We are all accountable. Rationalizing who might be more responsible is not the point, unless it helps to justify how much accountability and action you are willing to accept. We are […]
Nuclear waste abandonment risks the dangers of amnesia
Broad-stroke reassurances from supporters of a proposed deep geological repository for Canada’s nuclear waste have failed to allay important environmental and security concerns.
