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Optimism prevails in the global energy sector despite threat of political uncertainty: DNV report

April 10, 2024 Energi Staff

Oslo, 10 April 2024 – DNV, the independent energy expert and assurance provider, reveals a resilient optimism within the energy sector, despite prevailing caution. According to DNV’s annual Industry Insight survey, 73 per cent of [Read more]

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Canada’s support for oil extends beyond financial subsidies: Panel

March 26, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on March 26, 2024. By Christopher Bonasia The Canadian government’s enabling relationship with the oil and gas industry is holding back action to end financing for fossil [Read more]

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Building 5.8M net-zero homes by 2030 requires politicians to get along: Task force for Housing and Climate

March 5, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on March 5, 2024. By Mitchell Beer Federal, provincial, and municipal politicians across Canada must put aside their differences and work together on a national blueprint to [Read more]

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Ottawa will fund roadway maintenance, not ‘large’ new highway projects: Guilbeault

February 15, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Feb. 15, 2024. By Mitchell Beer The federal government will still fund local, provincial, and territorial governments for roadway maintenance, but will no longer help pay [Read more]

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Exxon sues to block climate proposal from shareholder vote

January 30, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Jan. 30, 2024. By Christopher Bonasia Oil giant ExxonMobil has resorted to legal action against two activist investors, seeking to prevent their proposal on accelerated climate [Read more]

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‘We all just won’: U.S. to apply climate test to new LNG terminals

January 25, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Jan. 25, 2024. By Mitchell Beer The Biden administration is preparing to apply a climate test to a proposal for a massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) [Read more]

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Alberta premier blames renewables after cold snap, idled gas plants, trigger grid emergency

January 19, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Jan. 19, 2024. By Mitchell Beer Two gas-fired power plants going offline and a winter deep freeze were enough to trigger an emergency alert on the [Read more]

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Washington state’s cap on carbon is raising billions for climate action. Can it survive the backlash?

January 8, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Jan. 8, 2024. By Kate Yoder For months now, it’s been free for anyone 18 or younger to ride the light rail through Seattle, the ferry across Puget [Read more]

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Climate change solutions require collaboration between politicians, scientists and entrepreneurs

December 27, 2023 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Conversation on Dec. 20, 2023. By Pierre Chaigneau Most Canadians agree something should be done about climate change. Yet, even though there is tremendous pressure on politicians to do something, widespread discontent usually [Read more]

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At COP28, Trump and GOP threaten Biden’s climate promises

December 12, 2023 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Dec. 12, 2023. By Naveena Sadasivam Brenda Mallory reports directly to President Joe Biden, but in a crowded building at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, nobody [Read more]

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Shifting political winds threaten progress on Europe’s green goals

December 11, 2023 Energi Staff

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced by Grist as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. By Christian Schwägerl, Yale E360 In December 2019, Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the [Read more]

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Are freeloading premiers undermining Canada’s climate strategy?

November 20, 2023 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Conversation on Nov. 19, 2023. It has been a bad few weeks for the federal government’s plans for climate action. A little more than five years ago, there was [Read more]

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How oil companies put the responsibility for climate change on consumers

October 25, 2023 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Conversation on Oct. 11 2023. By Sarah M. Munoz, Doctoral researcher in political science / Doctorante en science politique, Université de Montréal The political response to the climate crisis [Read more]

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Beyond pipeline politics: Canada’s love-hate relationship with foreign direct investment – CBOC

May 1, 2018 Markham Hislop

Major Canadian cities have shown leadership in building a more co-ordinated approach to attracting foreign investment from places such as China and Europe By Glen Hodgson, senior fellow, Conference Board of Canada Invest in Canada, the new federal [Read more]

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“Cost and Carbon Competitiveness” was an Alberta rallying cry for years. What happened?

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

Reducing methane emissions to zero is important for Canada’s competitiveness as global markets increasingly price carbon For all the noise surrounding climate policy, this is the rare file where ideology doesn’t change the physics, and [Read more]

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