In their decades-long efforts to develop effective and affordable climate change policy, most western governments have put a lot of money and effort in two areas: (1) hydrogen, and (2) carbon capture and sequestration. They are on the right track, but they’re going about it in a roundabout way. That could set back progress by decades

It looks like the federal Conservatives are thinking hard about giving a tax rebate to buyers of hybrid cars. As I argued in Taking the giant step, this would be the best way to get more of these efficient cars on the road. The faster we do this, the faster auto manufacturers will respond to […]

Two days from today, the citizens of Ottawa will either re-elect Mayor Bob Chiarelli or choose someone else. If Ottawa electors do what the polls say they will, Chiarelli will get turfed out, and his electric light rail dream will likely die.
This is not good, either for Ottawa or for Canada. Mass transit’s power as […]

I have been arguing in these posts that a fundamental shift away from fossil fuel use and toward low–emission intensity electricity should be an integral part of Canada’s emission reduction strategy. This is easily doable, especially in the transportation sector, where electric powered vehicles are truly the wave of the future.
In fact, the shift is […]