Reconciliation with Indigenous peoples — shaped in large measure in the context of resource development projects by the duty to consult — is frequently the predominant dynamic in advancing such projects (particularly energy projects) in Canada. Weaving Two Worlds (subtitled […]
The key messages of Dr. Steven E. Koonin’s new book, Unsettled (2021), on the current state of climate science and its implications for energy policy, though cogently organized and expressed, are nonetheless disorienting. Rather than offering the conventional warnings of […]
An impassioned plea to retire and replace all existing equipment in the fossil fuel chain — from exploration and production to utilization — Saul Griffith’s Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for our Clean Energy Future (2021) (hereafter, “Electrify”) is quite the […]
The first question Bill Gates confronts in his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (subtitled “The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need”) is why a world-famous, unimaginably wealthy computer software innovator with no specific credentials in climate change science is authoring a book on this sprawling[…]
The purpose of the University of Ottawa’s Positive Energy initiative is to use “the convening power of the university to bring together academic researchers and senior decision-makers from industry, government, indigenous communities, local communities and environmental organizations to determine how to strengthen public confidence in energy decision-making.”[…]
BREAKDOWN: The Pipeline Debate and the Threat to Canada’s Future is Dennis McConaghy’s sequel to his 2017 DYSFUNCTION: Canada after Keystone XL, which chronicled the saga of the Keystone XL project and its ultimate rejection in November 2015 by President […]