Semiconductors: the forgotten (but essential) green technology
The ubiquitous microchips that power applications ranging from your smartphone to telecommunications and defence infrastructure can also be instrumental in getting us to green and clean.
Canada’s seat at the table: empowering the global energy transition
Our nation must develop actionable plans and elevate sustainable mining to a national strategic industry, fostering links with the public and private sectors.
Trans Mountain pipeline will be Trudeau’s most ruinous legacy
The nearly-completed line is too big to fail and too buried in debt to make a profit before the climate catastrophe makes the conversation moot.
Promising prospects for Canada in global transition to new energy world
Despite our boasting, we’re far from a world leader in the energy transition. We will have to push harder to do better. We have potential, but so do many other nations.
New clean energy tax credits must be designed in a way that encourages Indigenous participation, say experts
Indigenous-led renewable energy projects offer an opportunity for economic reconciliation, as well as an opportunity to address past injustices such as the development of large-scale hydro projects from the 1940s onwards that flooded communities and sacred sites, says one researcher.
When planning nuclear waste sites in Canada, consider Ukraine’s potential nuclear crisis
As more countries learn from the Ukraine war, the risk is that many inter-related problems surrounding nuclear power beset future generations for thousands of years.
Our power lines aren’t ready for the future: the Atlantic Loop will help
To decarbonize, we need to interconnect in a way that respects jurisdiction, but harnesses the boon of renewable resources in our backyard.
Wishful thinking about nuclear energy won’t get us to net zero
The climate problem is too serious to engage in unrealistic modelling exercises. Wishful thinking about nuclear energy will only thwart our ability to act meaningfully to lower emissions rapidly.
Canadian LNG: a climate change solution and a path for reconciliation
Indigenous communities like ours are getting involved in natural gas projects not despite the effects on emissions, but because of them.
Looming historic clash over energy will again redraw federal political fortunes
Despite talk about collaboration, the country seems headed for another bruising national fight over energy in the months ahead.
