Another world climate conference in an exotic remote location, another hundred or so airplane tankfuls of kerosene turned into carbon dioxide (CO2) and dumped into the atmosphere—all in the name of getting together to talk about how not to dump so much CO2 into the atmosphere. Is that how the Durban conference will go...
Climate change
Faced with choosing environment or jobs, Obama chooses… jobs
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how the U.S. Supreme Court had told the Obama administration that the issue of climate change is the administration’s, not the court’s, responsibility. What would Obama do? Well, we just found out. On September 2, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave up trying to reduce the amount...
Ontario natural gas strategy will make environmental implications of Keystone pipeline irrelevant
Environmentalists who make a big deal out of opposing the proposed expansion of the Keystone pipeline do so on the grounds of the sheer amount of carbon it represents. The proposal is about extending the pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas; it already crosses the Canada-U.S. border. The Canadian version of the Sierra Club in...
U.S. court kicks climate back to Administration, for now
Euro-Disney, meet American law. Germany’s most recent nuclear phaseout (see article) is a true head-shaker. Germany led the way in calling for countries to line up behind the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The nuclear phase out will increase Germany’s dependence on: French nuclear power (according to the European grid operator, Germany...
The political economy of climate funding: the case of the atom
How well is “The Climate” represented when it comes to government spending, organized lobbies, and media coverage? Since its inception in 2006, this blog has covered the issue of carbon pricing—through cap and trade or an outright tax. I have tracked carbon pricing policy development/implementation in Canadian governments at the municipal, provincial, and federal...
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