Hammond must avoid more North Sea oil subsidies in the autumn statement
"Ahead of the autumn statement next week [...], we urge the chancellor not to answer calls from oil producers in the North Sea for another round of government subsidies."
"Ahead of the autumn statement next week [...], we urge the chancellor not to answer calls from oil producers in the North Sea for another round of government subsidies."
"In Monday’s speech from the throne, Pallister reiterated the province’s support for a made-in-Manitoba approach to carbon pricing. Manitoba’s throne speech suggests carbon pricing is part of a broader suite of policies that address environmental challenges and economic aspirations."
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine and the Experimental Lakes area have agreed to collaborate on research into environmental health.
"A comprehensive measure of Canada's national wealth shows it has been stagnant for decades and is too heavily dependent on housing and oil and gas, says a groundbreaking national report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development."
Peter Van Dusen (CPAC) speaks to Scott Vaughan and Robert Smith about what a 'comprehensive wealth' approach can reveal about Canada's progress. Clip starts at 19:20.
Scott Vaughan explains to CBC Power and Politics' Rosemary Barton why Canada should adopt a 'comprehensive wealth' approach. (Clip begins at 1:16:45).
"We need now to look at how do we take the revenues from those pipelines, the rent that Canada can get from those pipelines, and invest them in new, higher quality, higher growth jobs in order to push up those human capital investments," Vaughan, a former commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, said."
"We believe a greater portion of resource revenues needs to be re-invested in creating the new economy Canada will need going forward. There are several ways we could do this, all of them well-tested."
(French-language article) Frédéric Gagnon-Lebrun, in an opinion piece for Les Affaires, explains why Quebec can take the lead in the campaign to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies.
"[A]t this moment of uncertainty for international cooperation, it is a critical time for Canada to continue championing international climate action as part of a much-needed antidote to toxic nationalism and the climate change denial that so often goes with it."