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An Alberta County Claimed It Had No Authority to Consider a Data Centre's Climate Pollution. Our Reporter Has Thoughts.
2+ hour, 49+ min ago (957+ words) When writing any story for The Energy Mix, one of the biggest challenges I’ve faced is getting answers from governments at all levels. A healthy democracy requires that reporters ask the tough questions on behalf of the public, and governments…...
🎶 If I Had 43.7 Billion Dollars 🎶: Ferocious Wildfire Season Distracts from Pipeline, Spotlights the Call for Better Ideas
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (583+ words) The 38 days since Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sealed the deal on their proposed West Coast Pipeline have hammered home the back story—actually, the lead story—that they don’t want you to think about. But…...
Carney’s Grand Bargain Isn’t With Alberta: It’s With the Rest of Us.
4+ week, 21+ hour ago (670+ words) We’re passing the mic again this week to political organizer and climate policy specialist Alex Cool-Fergus. Once again, extreme weather is pushing Canadians’ concern about climate and the environment upwards. In a recent poll, the environment bounced up as an…...
Ottawa Says the West Coast Pipeline is a 'Good Investment for Taxpayers'. Discuss.
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (1115+ words) “I am quite comfortable that this is a good investment for Canadian taxpayers…This project is the most significant economic opportunity in the country today.” — Energy Minister Tim Hodgson on CBC Power & Politics, discussing a proposed West Coast oil sands…...
Trust. Broken. - by Mitchell Beer
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1776+ words) “Trust is probably the most sought-after commodity now.” — Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, addressing a media scrum at the IEA’s 11th Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency, June 29, 2026, Montreal “The most important thing Canada has today, which makes Canada a very important…...
U.S.-Iran Truce Begins to Shatter. Canada’s Clean50 Is On Life Support and Needs Our Help. (Find Out How Those Dots Connect.)
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1455+ words) News broke overnight that the back-and-forth ceasefire violations by the United States and Iran have intensified, leading to fears that the tentative ceasefire in the Persian Gulf is on its way to shattering. That’s got Trump threatening again that he…...
Getting Climate Results in Complicated Times
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (1472+ words) In the year and a few months since he became Prime Minister, one of Mark Carney’s signature themes has been to “actively take on the world as it is, not wait for a world we wish to be.” He laid…...
3 Steps to Blow Open Public Imagination and Meet the Climate Emergency at Speed and Scale
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (952+ words) We’re passing the mic this week to our good friend and colleague Seth Klein, former team lead at the Climate Emergency Unit, now the smart and prolific author of the Emergency Measures newsletter on Substack. Folks, if you haven’t subscribed…...
Running a Half-Marathon Dressed as the Peace Tower. The End of an Extreme Global Warming Scenario. What's the Connection?
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1385+ words) How could the dots possibly connect between a half-marathon on a rainy Sunday in Ottawa and the storm clouds around one of the most alarming projections for future global warming, amped up and reliably distorted by one of the biggest…...
Now What? With Carbon Pricing Eroded and Pipeline Politics Advancing, Here Are the Pathways for Climate Success
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (1303+ words) At the end of a whirlwind week of news on carbon pricing and electricity strategy, capping a madcap year of pretty much non-stop, dramatic change, the word across much of Canada’s climate and energy transition community is that climate policy…...