Carbon & Sustainability
‘It can no longer be free to pollute:' Updated climate plan includes carbon tax hikes
Monday, December 14, 2020, 6:08 AM MST
The federal government has released a $15-billion plan to meet its climate change commitments that includes steady increases to its…
Amazon to buy clean power from giant German offshore wind farm
Friday, December 11, 2020, 6:42 AM MST
Amazon.com Inc. will buy power for 10 years from a giant wind farm planned off the coast of Germany, a…
EU leaders agree to reduce emissions after all night talks
Friday, December 11, 2020, 6:30 AM MST
European Union leaders reached a hard-fought deal Friday to cut the bloc's net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 per cent…
Tipping point? Experts say the Paris agreement changed the climate on climate
Friday, December 11, 2020, 6:21 AM MST
Five years after it was passed, the Paris agreement may finally be changing the climate on climate change. “I've always…
There’s a plan to bury Asia’s carbon emissions under the sea
Monday, December 7, 2020, 7:25 AM MST
Australian and Japanese companies are studying plans to capture carbon dioxide from industrial emitters in Asia and store it under…
Small modular reactors challenge natural gas
Monday, December 7, 2020, 6:51 AM MST
The first operators of miniature nuclear reactors described their job as “tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon” because of…
Exxon holds back on technology that could slow climate change
Monday, December 7, 2020, 6:26 AM MST
Elk and pronghorn antelope migrate each fall through southern Wyoming, where the sparsely vegetated landscape slowly gives way to the…
Alberta set to retire coal power by 2023, ahead of 2030 provincial deadline
Monday, December 7, 2020, 6:18 AM MST
Alberta is set to meet its goal to eliminate coal-fired electricity production years earlier than its 2030 target, thanks to…
Alberta offers Rocky Mountain coal leases after rescinding protection policy
Monday, December 7, 2020, 6:13 AM MST
Alberta is offering more of its Rocky Mountain landscapes to coal mining after rescinding a decades-old policy that protected them.…
Shell CEO hopeful Biden will speed up climate change fight
Friday, December 4, 2020, 6:41 AM MST
The change in the U.S. presidency will bring the collaboration and set of progressive policies needed to tackle the energy…
Hydrogen's future remains murky despite home heating projects in Alberta and Ontario
Friday, December 4, 2020, 6:23 AM MST
It seems like a no-brainer to use clean-burning hydrogen to offset the environmental negatives of natural gas for warming homes,…
Petrobras CEO calls net zero a fad, echoing Exxon’s focus on oil
Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 6:53 AM MST
Petrobras is pledging a 25 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2030, but that hasn’t stopped chief executive officer…
