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Canada’s Banks Investing in Climate Disaster 

on April 19th, 2024 by The Afro News

The second iteration of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance report, released last December, highlighted how, for the second year in a row, Canadian banks rank amongst the worst in the world when measured on how much funding is directed to fossil fuels versus renewable energy.  Last December, while testifying at the Senate banking committee studying Bill S-243 — the Climate-Aligned Finance Act — Superintendent of

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Environment, Environment, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Canada’s Banks, Climate Disaster

If We Don’t Get Energy Transition Right, We’re Screwed

on January 23rd, 2023 by The Afro News

Have you heard about Canada’s unjust energy transition? Better pay attention: it’s unfolding before your very eyes. The unjust transition will cost people jobs, create new and more insidious types of energy poverty, and accelerate negative environmental impact – the very opposite effects of what the putative notion of a just transition is intended to achieve. We’re

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Environment, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: energy transition right

Farming Is Losing to Misguided Urban Politics

on August 8th, 2022 by The Afro News

Interest groups are weaponizing science to support a narrative that fits their biased view of what farmers should and shouldn’t do Most Canadians have never been on a farm, let alone lived on one, which makes more than 98 per cent of our population agriculturally illiterate. For many Canadians, crop production is an unknown concept.

Filed under: Canadian News, Environment, Food, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Canada produces food for the world, Canadian fertilizer emission reduction

Canada’s Oil and Gas Workers Don’t Need A Forced ‘Just Transition’

on May 2nd, 2022 by The Afro News

Oil and gas will continue to be critical for decades to come, even as we pursue strategies to reduce emissions and encourage renewables The idea of the need for a “just transition” for Canadian oil and gas workers is based on the false narrative that global demand is now decreasing and, therefore, Canada’s industry will

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Environment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Global demand for oil and natural gas

The True Cost of Unreliable Renewable Energy

on January 27th, 2022 by The Afro News

Arguments that renewable energy sources are cheaper have always been dubious on their merits, if not outright disingenuous We are constantly being told that wind and solar power are really cheaper than fossil-fuel power if you tot up the true costs of using each type. These arguments have always been dubious on their merits, if

Filed under: Canadian News, Environment, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, Technology, The Bridge Tagged as: costs for energy production, renewable energy

Thunberg Has World Leaders in The Palm of Her Hand

on January 5th, 2022 by The Afro News

World leaders are doing everything Thunberg and people like her say, without batting an eye It seems everything is about justice these days. As I drove home from the store recently, I saw a sign for the elections here in New York from the local Democratic Party, promising “equity, equality, and justice for all.” Beyond

Filed under: Canadian News, Environment, Environment, Point of View, The Bridge, World Tagged as: Carbon emissions, The EU is working to slash net greenhouse gas emissions

Why Wind and Solar Energy Aren’t The Answer to Reducing Global Emissions

on November 24th, 2021 by The Afro News

Wind and solar farms replacing the 84% of global energy from fossil fuels is technically impossible In a previous column I pointed out that since switching coal-fuelled power plants to natural gas cuts CO2 emissions in half, exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) to displace coal benefits our economy and reduces global emissions. And that since converting gasoline

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Environment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: building wind and solar farms that could replace the 84 per cent of global energy

Canada’s Raw-milk Ban Defies Common-Sense

on November 15th, 2021 by The Afro News

The alleged dangers will be news to countless communities and families who have for generations grown up on raw milk There’s a legal way to consume raw milk in Canada: buy it in the United States and bring it home. Of the 13 states bordering Canada, 12 have legal raw milk. More than 40 have it legal

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Environment, Finance, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Canada’s quiet dictatorship over milk is standing firm for self-interest, communities and families who have for generations grown up on raw milk

Climate Change Creating A New Normal for Farmers

on November 8th, 2021 by The Afro News

And consumers are seeing first-hand how climate impacts their pocketbooks COP26 is just around the corner – the 26th United Nations climate change conference starts in Glasgow on Oct. 31.  During the two-week summit, delegates face the colossal task of bridging the gap between the climate commitments made in 2015 with the Paris climate accord

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Environment, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Canada has agreed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 30 per cent, Pricing carbon, we need to leave our farmers alone when pricing carbon

How to Reduce our Emissions Without Penalizing Rural Regions

on September 20th, 2021 by The Afro News

Policies should be fair for all Canadians, regardless of where they happen to live

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Environment, Environment, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Policies should be fair for all Canadians, Reduce our Emissions, Reducing our greenhouse gas emissions
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