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COP in Focus – Part Six – Was Glasgow Insane Or Just Plain Harmful?

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So now for the 26th time world leaders are scrambling to make the COP meetings – the recently concluded extraordinary waste of time and money in Glasgow – look like progress. Albert Einstein is given credit for the expression that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition … Continued

COP in Focus – Part Four – The Federal Angle

| By Dan McTeague

What an exciting time it must be for Steven Guilbeault. He gets to go to the UN COP meeting in Glasgow next week for the first time as Canada’s Minister of the Environment.  Note: his first time to a COP meeting as Minister of the Environment. It is anything but his first time to a … Continued

COP in Focus – Part Three – The BC Angle

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Earlier this week I wrote about the Alberta angle on the upcoming Glasgow Conference of the Parties (COP) meeting.  Today I am writing about a different province (BC) but the same theme: how all this COP madness hurts Canadians. But whereas in the Alberta Angle we focused on the hurt caused by environmentalists, today’s piece … Continued

COP in Focus – Part Two – The Alberta Angle

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The Alberta Government issued a report this week on its public inquiry into funding of anti-Alberta energy campaigns. See the key findings here: Public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns final report : Key findings The intent of the report was to track how much money was coming into campaigns against development of oil and gas … Continued

COP in Focus – Part One – Why the Big Party in Glasgow?

| By Dan McTeague

Perhaps you have heard about the big global meeting happening in a few weeks in Glasgow, Scotland? The COP26 conference? I thought it important that we shine a spotlight on it as things build up to it.  In my opinion, it is a perfect demonstration of just how off the rails the global conversation on … Continued

Greta: A Symptom of the Deeper Problem

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In a strange turn of events, Greta Thunberg and I actually agree on something.  In Greta’s recent address to the Youth4Climate summit (a sort of youth prequel to the upcoming COP26 summit in Glasgow, all organized under the UN Climate Change banner) Thunberg called politicians and business leaders hypocritical over what they say on climate … Continued

Erin Gambled and Erin Lost

| By Dan McTeague

The September 20th federal election revealed what happens when a political leader abandons all principle for a perceived quick path to short term electoral gain that then POOF! … goes up in smoke. You might think I am referring to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ill-timed election. For Trudeau, what seemed like an “election about nothing” … Continued

Energy Poverty in Britain – Will it Happen in Canada

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As United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Boris Johnson continues to advance his green agenda, more and more Britons are falling into energy poverty. British fuel poverty charity “National Energy Action” defines energy poverty as the situation when a household has to spend more than 10% of its income to achieve a decent level of warmth. … Continued

Pressure Works in the UK – It Can Work in Canada Too

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With Canada’s economy still recovering from the pandemic, and many Canadians still suffering from it, affordability is proving to be a major issue in this election campaign. But energy affordability is rarely part of this conversation. Each of Canada’s major parties is promising to make housing more affordable. This is a very good thing. Paying … Continued