This article was published by Grist on Jan. 10, 2023. By Jake Bittle A new report from the Rhodium Group, a research firm that models greenhouse gas emissions, brings good news and bad news. First, the [Read more]
This article was published by Grist on Jan. 12, 2023. By Kate Yoder In the early 1980s, America’s biggest company knew more about climate change than basically anyone else. Rising emissions posed a threat to [Read more]
This article was published by the International Energy Agency on April 20, 2022. Despite notable success in expanding wind and other clean sources of power, Belgium still requires strong and sustained efforts to reduce its [Read more]
This commentary was published by the International Renewable Energy Agency on Feb. 24, 2022. By Dolf Gielen, Michael Taylor, Barbara Jinks Outdated perceptions of the costs of clean energy remain a major barrier to the energy transition. [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on Jan. 20, 2021. Canada’s Energy Future 2020: Energy Supply and Projections to 2050 (EF2020) is the latest long-term energy outlook from the Canada Energy Regulator (CER). [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on May 20, 2020. The location of propane exports in Canada is changing. Increasingly, more volumes of propane are exported from British Columbia. In January 2020, [Read more]
By Michael Mobilia, Owen Comstock This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on July 1, 2019. Fossil fuels—petroleum, natural gas, and coal—have accounted for at least 80 per cent of energy consumption [Read more]
The government of Denmark is proposing a total ban on the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars after 2030 and hybrid vehicles after 2035. Getty Images photo by Michal Krakowiak. Denmark plan to be presented [Read more]
In 2016, Canada pledged to phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies by 2025. The Trudeau government says the move is an important step in the transition to a low-carbon economy. @g20org Twitter photo. Minister of [Read more]
A nuanced look at energy subsidies, politicians’ favorite policy tool. Photo by Jo Ann Lawrence. Posted by the Energy Institute at Haas Energy Institute Blog on Monday, March 19, 2018. Looking at leveling the playing [Read more]
Thanks to Markham Hislop’s work on the Energy Transition, he was in favour of the NDP and Liberal climate/energy policies before Rachel Notley or Justin Trudeau (that’s a joke, folks) When I began my journalism career [Read more]
The energy transition has begun. Resistance is futile. So is half-baked carping by climate journalists Last month, influential British journalist George Monbiot published a criticism of the media’s role in the global “climate crisis” that illustrates why [Read more]
AGs threaten law suits, claiming fossil fuel companies misled investors, public about risks of climate change Why are Democratic attorney generals from 16 states preparing to sue American oil companies for “climate change denial”? By their [Read more]
Fossil fuels (except coal) + renewable energy + ancillary technologies = American Energy Model My last column criticized both Democrat and Republican presidential candidates for polarizing the American energy debate, which implies there needs to be a middle [Read more]
Prof. Vaclav Smil says world has started an “energy transition” – you’d never know it by Democrat, Republican energy platforms I’m mad as hell at both the Democrats and the Republicans. Energy policies from all [Read more]
Obama rejection of Keystone XL pipeline marked political ascendance of Everything Has Changed tribe Like most political discussions these days, the public discourse around energy is highly polarized. The problem for the energy industry is that their tribe [Read more]
Thinking – and debating – global energy transitions in terms of time, cost, and complexity What the world desperately needs now is not love, as the old pop song has it, but a simple framework within [Read more]
Putting a man on the moon happened inside a decade, but global transition to new energy technologies may take a century Last night, President Obama promised to pursue the clean energy revolution with the same [Read more]
Leonardo DiCaprio’s type of mistake – deliberate or accidental – is common with North American eco-activists Do you know what a Chinook is? If not, don’t feel bad, Hollywood celebrity Leonardo DiCaprio doesn’t either. In [Read more]
Many observers, including President Barack Obama, believe transition from Age of Fossil Fuels to Age of Clean Energy has already begun David Suzuki’s recent comments equating the Alberta oil and gas industry to American slavery [Read more]
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