energy
How to fight the climate crisis with electricity
Canada can cut its emissions by scaling up one of our oldest technologies
On energy and climate, politics is the problem
Nik Nanos and Brendan Frank: Climate disasters are piling up, and the public discourse around climate is getting more ambitious
Eight charts to watch on climate and energy in 2022
Chart Week 2022: Electric car sales are supercharged, climate change is scorching crop production, and women are underrepresented in Alberta’s energy sector
The Trans Mountain pipeline and the end of the ‘veto’ fallacy
Today’s appeal court ruling rejects the notion of First Nations having a veto over oil projects. But it’s not the end of the legal saga.
It’s time to leverage Canada’s energy advantage into a geopolitical one, too
Opinion: Pipeline projects and energy developments will allow Canada to flex more influence on the world stage—and weaken the grip of bad international actors
How the Trans Mountain pipeline became a political dumpster fire
Internecine party squabbles, centuries’ worth of broken promises to First Nations and the country’s nastiest rhetorical swill: that’s a lot for one pipeline to carry
Oil exports drive Canada’s trade surplus with the U.S.
Econ-o-metric: Canadian arguments about balanced trade with the U.S. don’t matter to Trump. His NAFTA logic says deficits are for losers, full stop.
How hockey can change its energy-hogging, carbon-spewing ways
It takes a huge amount of hot water to make the ice in hockey rinks. How technology is helping rinks go green.
Justin Trudeau, man of substance
You can dislike what the Liberal leader is proposing, but he sure is proposing stuff. Paul Wells on Justin Trudeau’s carbon proposal
Will Tesla’s home battery really bring power to the people?
Tesla’s Powerwall battery pack could help homes go off-grid. Just don’t toast bread and make coffee at the same time.
Four questions for the Alberta NDP about its approach to energy
University of Alberta professor Andrew Leach in conversation with the Alberta NDP about its energy policies
What might the Alberta NDP government do with energy policy?
On many energy issues, it’s hard to find a lot of daylight between Alberta NDP policies and those of the other two front-running parties