Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Ben Kujala, director of power planning for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council based in Portland, Oregon. They discussed the extent to which natural gas should be [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Dr. Thomas Rowlands-Rees of BloombergNEF about US greenhouse gas emissions falling. The primary cause of lower emissions is the switch away from coal (mostly to natural gas) [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews David Herring, director of communication and education for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the US government. He is a science writer and editor with extensive [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham debates climate activist and academic Seth Klein about his new book, “A GOOD WAR: MOBILIZING CANADA FOR THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY,” which argues that governments should direct economic activity [Read more]
Markham interviews Sam Abuelsamid, engineer and EV analyst for Guidehouse Research, about Toyota’s new solid-state battery, which will have 500 kilometres of range and can be recharged in just 10 minutes. [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Prof. Warwick Vincent, Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Ecosystem Studies and leader of the Aquatic Ecosystem Studies laboratory at Université Laval, about recent significant losses of ice [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Lance Mortlock, Canadian oil and gas leader for EY Canada, about a new joint study with PetroLMI titled, “Preparing for the future now: Rethinking the oil and [Read more]
A new analysis by IHS Markit has found that delays in the expansion of export pipeline capacity have contributed to wider differentials and lower commodity prices, costing Canadian heavy crude producers billions of dollars. Kevin [Read more]
By Mechthild Wörsdörfer and Tom Howes This article was published by the International Energy Agency on Dec. 12, 2020. 2015 was a critical year for climate action Saturday 12 December is a milestone: it is [Read more]
Canadian Pacific announced on Friday that it plans to develop North America’s first line-haul hydrogen powered locomotive. According to a press release issued by the company, CP’s Hydrogen Locomotive Program will retrofit a line-haul locomotive [Read more]
Summary: On December 15, 2020 several animal rights groups wrote to the Canadian government asking for a “special review” under the federal Health Act of several poisons (including strychnine) used by the Alberta and Saskatchewan [Read more]
Rating: Advanced high school and post-secondary. Summary: Markham interviews Claes Fredriksson, founder of Liquid Wind, a Swedish company that uses captured CO2 and hydrogen created using wind power to make eMethanol, an emission-less liquid fuel [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: What to do with electric vehicle batteries at the end of their life is an important issue for consumers and environmental groups. A Canadian company, Li-Cycle of Mississauga, Ontario [Read more]
Rating: Advanced high school and post-secondary. Summary: Wood Mackenzie’s latest report shows that 77% of new LNG supply is at risk under 2-degree Celsius global warming by 2100 scenario. Only about 145 billion cubic metres [Read more]
Rating: Advanced high school and post-secondary Summary: An August, 2020 report from the Canada West Foundation provides a list of all climate policies of Canadian provinces and the Canadian government. With the increasing focus across [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Energi Media interviewed energy economist Blake Shaffer of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary about a research memo he co-authored entitled, “Energy and Environmental Policy [Read more]
By Robert Tremblay The future is low carbon. For Albertans to continue to have the prosperity we have enjoyed, we need to create an economy that is compatible with that future. A low carbon world [Read more]
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