Canadian officials ignored their obligation to support activist detained in 2017 over mining dispute in Peru: report
A report from the Justice & Corporate Accountability Project uses access-to-information records to piece together how embassy and trade commission officials responded when Jennifer Moore of MiningWatch Canada was detained by Peruvian police in April 2017.
Advocates at biodiversity conference push back against plan to expedite approvals for critical minerals mines
The federal government’s new critical minerals strategy reflects the urgency borne of geopolitical concerns and the demands of electric vehicle production.
Plutonium is plutonium, period, and separating it increases nuclear proliferation risks
Canada’s support for the nuclear industry’s plan to extract plutonium from spent nuclear fuel and export the technology will create a new global security risk and raise legitimate questions about our government’s desire to be a leader in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, write M.V. Ramana and Susan O’Donnell.
Nuclear power must be part of net-zero solution
The Canadian Nuclear Society counters a recent opinion piece by two professors who question whether expanding Canada’s plutonium interests increases the risk of furthering nuclear proliferation.
Why is Ontario turning its back on low-cost, low-carbon power?
We need climate-smart electricity solutions now, not decades from now, writes the director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.
‘We tried to stop it’: chair of Indigenous coalition bidding for Trans Mountain went to court to block the project
The Western Indigenous Pipeline Group is a coalition of Indigenous communities that has partnered with Pembina in its attempt to buy Trans Mountain.
Canada must push harder to curb greenhouse gas emissions
Canada’s grand national project should be achieving a clean energy economy and meeting our net zero emissions target, but it has been our biggest failure. Instead, the country is badly divided.
Enbridge deal with Indigenous groups in Alberta a model for Trans Mountain sale, say industry insiders
A recently announced pipeline deal in Alberta provides a preview of what a successful Indigenous bid for a stake in the Trans Mountain pipeline could look like. But the federal government, the potential Indigenous buyers, and the oil companies who pay to use the pipeline still have to hammer out who will absorb the brunt […]
New report alleges federal government hiding true extent of Trans Mountain’s debt load
A new report, released by West Coast Environmental Law, says the government is misleading Canadians about the extent of the debt that the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation is accumulating as construction continues on its controversial pipeline expansion project, and calculates that the government will need to write off at least $17-billion in debt that […]
When it comes to funding zero-emission vehicle infrastructure, it’s time for Canada to step on the gas
Canada’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) has ambitious targets to bring down greenhouse gas emissions from on-road vehicles, especially for trucks and buses. The federal government has committed to requiring 35 per cent of the total number of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs) sold to be zero-emission by 2030, and 100 per cent to be […]
