Stephen Maher: Environmentalists want to know why Canada dragged its feet for years, and why the PMO met with the company
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Put a price on emissions and let the chips fall where they may
Why putting a price on carbon emissions is a more effective way to tackle climate change than setting emissions targets.
How Canada can live up to its commitment on emissions
Economist Paul Boothe on the five-step approach Canada and the provinces can take to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions
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.
Can the U.S. meet its greenhouse gas targets?
How Obama’s new environmental rules are reshaping the debate
Carbon capers
Barack Obama promised to tackle climate change, but so far Washington has produced only hot air
Save the planet: Stop eating meat
The UN says so, and so do a growing list of school boards. Meet the new eco enemy.
We still love our gas guzzlers
Auto sales have picked up, the big winners are‹you guessed it—pickups
Too ugly to ignore? (Updated)
Environment Minister Jim Prentice says the oil sands are hurting Canada’s efforts to be seen as a “clean energy superpower”
Bring it on
National Post, November 5. Mild-mannered, absolutely. But Environment Minister Jim Prentice wants the world to know he’ll be no boy scout when crucial climate change talks convene in Copenhagen a month from today … In the end, it’s almost a guarantee that no matter what happens, Canada will be vilified on the world stage as an energy superpower that abandoned the Kyoto Accord and isn’t shouldering its share of carbon reductions. “Well, if the price of having strong, capable, tough negotiators at the table is being singled out and given ‘fossil of the year’ awards, then so be it. Bring it on,” Mr. Prentice told me, doing his best impression of not being a boy scout.