Mitchell Beer

The Trump vs. Iran news intensified overnight, after oil companies brought him back to office. We’d already written about the Clean50 as an essential force for good. The two stories aren’t unrelated.

The federal government is earning praise for its first low-income energy efficiency initiative in 20 years, after announcing this morning that Quebec, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island have signed on to the Canada Greener Homes Affordability Program (CGHAP).

Extreme heat kills more people each year than gun violence, says Rob Thornton, president and CEO of the International District Energy Association. That’s one of the reasons district energy “is really surging right now.”

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney have announced a route and a tentative partnership for a new pipeline from Alberta’s oil sands to the British Columbia coast, with taxpayers picking up the lion’s share of the cost.

The record-shattering wave of heat and humidity blanketing parts of Quebec, Ontario, and the United States, affecting Canada Day celebrations in the nation’s capital and World Cup matches in both countries, “would have been virtually impossible in a climate without fossil fuel use,” Oxford University-based World Weather Attribution (WWA) has concluded.

Carney seals the pipeline deal, and his energy minister touts a $43-billion taxpayer bailout as a good investment. Would you buy a used “energy superpower” strategy from these guys?

Nearly three dozen countries pledged to pick up the pace on energy efficiency improvements last week, during an International Energy Agency (IEA) conference in Montreal where much of the top-line messaging was about energy security through oil and gas exports—and Canada as a preferred supplier.

As Alberta makes plans to send oil east and west in two new pipelines across Canada, an international oil major abandons its stake in the Bay du Nord oil project off Newfoundland and Labrador.

The advisory group mandated last April to set the criteria for green or transition investments under Canada’s forthcoming sustainable finance taxonomy has opened a one-month feedback period to get public and expert comment on how those categories should be designed.

Big news! We're hosting an online, open-line discussion over the summer to hear what *you* would see as a “good investment” of $43.7 billion for Canadian taxpayers. Time to get creative.