Climate & Clean Energy archives
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Trottier inventory points to inevitable low-carbon transition
April 18, 2013After reading the Trottier Project's Inventory of Low-Carbon Energy for Canada, what I find most striking about the results is how utterly unremarkable they are. The findings on Canada's reserves... More »
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Thinking environment this B.C. election? Share this video
April 8, 2013British Columbians no longer take for granted that the future will be better for the next generation. And that's not right. Leading scientists agree: climate change is one of the... More »
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Low-carbon solutions and offsets: Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater
April 8, 2013The B.C. Auditor General's report on the province's carbon neutral policy raises important questions about the effectiveness of carbon offsets. The report concludes that two of the biggest offset projects... More »
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The reconfigured grid in a low-carbon energy future
April 5, 2013The Trottier Energy Futures Project's Inventory of Low-Carbon Energy for Canada shows that our supplies of sustainable, low-carbon energy will be more than enough to meet our needs through 2050.... More »
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Canada has no shortage of low-carbon energy
March 27, 2013If anything limits Canada's transition to a low-carbon energy system, it will be integration, economics, and politics, not the lack of energy itself. An Inventory of Low-Carbon Energy for Canada,... More »
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A transition in petroleum's future?
March 8, 2013As U.S. President Barack Obama moves closer to a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, the dire warnings about the future of Canada's petroleum resources are reaching a fever pitch.... More »
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What's a barrel of oil really worth?
February 28, 2013What is a barrel of oil really worth? The answer starts out sounding like a joke that begins, "An oil producer, an economist, a consumer and an ethicist walk into... More »
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Oil prices and low-carbon futures: the horns of a dilemma
February 25, 2013Canada epitomizes the dilemma of the petroleum addiction that has the world in its grasp. Like the other industrial economies of the OECD, Canada has had constant access to cheap... More »
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Low-carbon futures: the solutions outside the energy system
February 14, 2013Many of the most promising and exciting opportunities to cut energy use and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are actually only indirectly related to energy.... More »
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Eighty per cent less carbon: the logistical equivalent of war
February 12, 2013This phrase leapt out at me as we worked on messaging for the release of the Trottier Energy Futures Project's Low-Carbon Energy Futures: A Review of National Scenarios in late... More »
