Trudeau looks to gather momentum in clean tech race after potentially game-changing signs from U.S.
The issue is whether Ottawa has the money and the ability to move quickly enough to stay competitive with the U.S., which is pumping nearly US$400-billion into everything from battery-making to critical minerals, electric vehicle production, and clean electricity, including hydrogen.
Alberta is, indeed, a ‘distinct society’
The province’s reputation for individualism is more than a cliché. Facing the challenges of eking out a living ranching and farming, people had to rely on themselves.
Shouldn’t a new and experimental reactor deserve a federal impact assessment?
These risks are all new to Canada. No sodium-cooled reactor has ever been built here.
Collaboration needed to reach net-zero goals in the electricity sector
Meeting net-zero goals is a daunting task that no provincial or federal government can do singlehandedly.
‘A mixed bag’: committee report on proposed oil and gas emissions cap reflects deep divisions on path forward
The House Natural Resources Committee tabled 10 recommendations for an emissions cap for Canada’s oil and gas sector on Dec. 14, eight months after hearing from the final witnesses.
Canada’s banks fundamental to financing the net-zero transition
Banks understand that the financial sector is central to securing an orderly transition to a net-zero economy while ensuring the continued resilience of Canada’s financial system.
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.
