Stephen and Barry in Happier Times Photo © Sean Kilpatrick, Canadian Press This is a short story because I have commented on these issues a number of times already. But President Obama’s speech on Tuesday 25th June to college… Read More »A Short Tale of Two Leaders, a Pipeline, and a Climate
Last week the International Energy Agency released a new report, Redrawing the Energy-Climate Map, in which it reported that the world is drifting ever further from the 2oC target that was agreed to at the Copenhagen climate conference in December… Read More »Changing views in the energy sector on the need to act on climate change
Remember Uncle Remus’s tar baby? It sat there seductively, but had a tendency to trap anyone who touched it and got entangled in its stickiness. The Harper government and the Alberta government increasingly look entangled as they flail about, desperately… Read More »Tar Babies, Pipelines, Plunderers and Stewards: A review of the environmental impacts of development of the Athabasca tar sands