Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent and his Alberta counterpart Diana McQueen announced a new on-line portal for tar sands monitoring data today. As the Canadian Press story notes , this announcement is “part of an...

Last week’s exchange between Alberta Premier Alison Redford and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has put the debate over the “ Dutch Disease ” on the national agenda. The name was coined by the Economist magazine based on what...

Spare a brief moment of pity for the people trying to make a profit off of polluting the planet because today was an all-too-rare bad day for them. First, an astroturf (fake grassroots) campaign to slam green energy and promote coal...

Tears can’t turn back the rising oceans: Action can. My eyes welled up with tears and anger when I read the latest report from the Maldives’ Environment Minister Mohamed Aslam. He painted a very clear picture of the urgency...

It’s been a rough few weeks for the tar sands lobby. We’ve just seen the largest act of civil disobedience in the U.S. in decades , and it was calling on President Obama to live up to his commitment to take action on climate change by...