It is critical that Canada follow through on its pledge and reorient public finance from all fossil fuels to clean-energy solutions. Let’s not be the last to turn our words into action.
COP27 is the perfect opportunity for Canada, represented by Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, to release its fossil-fuel financing policy. It’s not too late for Canada to take advantage of a key moment to demonstrate that they are taking the climate crisis seriously, write Julia Levin and Bronwen Tucker.
How much suffering would we bring on the globe's citizens if we cut off fossil fuels now? You think we can transition to renewables with cheap reliable energy? Nobody is helped by more expensive energy
Better hope we are. Witness the deadly energy mess facing the EU right now due to extreme 'renewables' policies. That's what you want for Canadians too? Natural gas is a transition fuel. We need time to find the right solution, not dive head first into total 'renewable mythology
Enviro fright peddlers who persecute us for wanting to stay warm totally ignore the mind blowing huge use of energy by technology sector. whose servers & other equipment generate enormous heat. Now devouring water in Calif. to cool equip., but blame droughts on climate.
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With political will, long-range artillery systems are in Canada’s sightsCanadian production of long-range ballistic artillery and direct-fire systems is within reach if there is political will in Ottawa to do so. The capital investments required are actually relatively small for the strategic capabilities and capacity that can be brought online. Many in Canada seem ill-informed about the industrial capabilities that have been developing right here at home over the past 25-plus years. While a great deal of this industrial capability has been developed to serve the energy sector, nuclear power, and other advanced manufacturing supply chains in civilian applications, this same small and medium-sized enterprise industrial base (largely found in Ontario and Quebec) is already being used to support the United States government with the Canadian Commercial Corporation Act and the Defence Production Sharing Agreement, as well as through U.S. manufacturers. That notwithstanding, the details of this reality seem to evade the radar of many in Canada. A recent Hill Times column suggested that it is not possible in the foreseeable future to produce long-range artillery systems in Canada. This only illustrates that the article’s author does not know what industrial capabilities and capacity exist in Canada to start with, nor are they aware of what is required and how long it will take to close the capability gap from where the Canadian industrial base is today to where it needs to be to produce this type of hardware. Canada is not currently in a position to produce long-range artillery systems without aid from other allies. The fact is this has not been done in Canada since the Korean War. Investments must be made. However, if there is continued political will across allies then partnership with the United States, the United Kingdom, and other nations—including other NATO members—with prime manufacturers who agree to share technical knowledge can make this a reality in a timeframe of 24 months or less. The most immediate and obvious option is the M77
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‘We tried to stop it’: chair of Indigenous coalition bidding for Trans Mountain went to court to block the projectSquiala First Nation Chief David Jimmie is often asked how he went from opposing one of the largest infrastructure projects in Canada to now leading one of the groups that is trying to buy it from the government. Jimmie, the chair and vice-president of finance for the Western Indigenous Pipeline Group (WIPG), told The Hill Times that he had a lot of soul-searching to do after he and his B.C. community exhausted all their legal options in their efforts to draw attention to environmental and cultural concerns about the Trans Mountain expansion project. “We tried to stop it. We really did. And I’m really proud of the work that we did,” he said, but eventually looked toward an ownership model as a way to be “heard around the table.” The Western Indigenous Pipeline Group, headquartered in Kamloops, B.C., is a coalition of at least 30 Indigenous communities that have signed on to seek an ownership stake in the government-owned Trans Mountain pipeline and its expansion. WIPG has partnered with Pembina Pipeline Corporation to form Chinook Pathways, which is the entity that will bid for Trans Mountain. Jimmie is also the president of the Ts’elxweyéqw tribe, the chief and CEO of Squiala First Nation, and the president of the Stó:lō Nation Chiefs Council. In his capacity with the Ts’elxweyéqw tribe, Jimmie and other community members engaged with Kinder Morgan Canada, the previous owner of the Trans Mountain pipeline, when they first heard about its proposal to twin the nearly 70-year-old existing pipeline. They conducted an independent study to assess the possible environmental and cultural impacts, and came up with 89 recommendations for how the federal government could address or mitigate their concerns. “Once we had all of that information,” said Jimmie, he and other members of what was then the Stó:lō Collective went in front of the National Energy Board, the predecessor to the Canada Energy Regulator. “And essentially we were not heard at the table,” said Jimmie. The aff
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Little to celebrate so far from Canada’s COP27 attendanceIt’s week two of the United Nations’ 27th Climate Change Conference, also known as COP27, and so far, there have been few positives to remark upon from the Canadian delegation led by Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stayed home for the first week of the global gathering that began on Nov. 6, before heading east on Nov. 11 to attend the ASEAN summit in Cambodia and then onto the G20 Summit in Indonesia. He’ll head to Thailand for an APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting on Nov. 18—the last day of COP27—before flying to Tunisia for La Francophonie. Canada has its first-ever pavilion at this year’s COP summit, and along with Parliamentarians and public servants, its delegation includes Indigenous and youth delegates from the north. But the Canada Pavilion also features oil-and-gas industry representatives, including from the Pathways Alliance—part of an overall trend of increased industry presence at the global summit, with reportedly more than 600 fossil-fuel lobbyists registered to attend, up 25 per cent from last year’s COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. Guilbeault met with American climate envoy John Kerry on Nov. 10 to tout collaboration between the U.S. and Canada on reducing methane emissions from oil-and-gas operators. The same day, Guilbeault’s department pushed the progress metre an inch forward by publishing a proposed framework outlining its new methane regulations, with draft regulations expected early next year (Canada committed to reduce methane emissions from the oil-and-gas industry by 75 per cent below 2012 levels by 2030 in October 2021.) Aside from highlighting previous commitments (or new details of already announced funding), Guilbeault has also spoken in favour of having an “open and frank conversation about loss and damage”—regarding a push, backed by a number of African nations, for richer countries to help pay the bill for climate-related damage. Germany, Belgium, Scotland, and Denmark, meanwhile, ha
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