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Ontario Power Generation's Nanticoke coal station is Canada's largest point source of greenhouse gases - over 17 million tonnes in 2005.
It is also Ontario's single largest source of nitrogen oxides and mercury that cause smog, as well as other deadly pollutants. The Ontario Medical Association has called air pollution "a public health crisis" that is killing over 5,900 people a year in Ontario. While all political parties have promised to phase out coal in Ontario, there is doubt as to when that could actually happen.
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After 20 months of mobilising, agitating and negotiating to green Facebook, the Internet giant has today announced its goal to run on clean, renewable energy. More than 700,000 people from all over the world joined to make this victory possible! Read more >
Burlington - Greenpeace Canada installed a green energy memorial outside the Excess Energy assembly facility today to symbolize the loss of green-collar jobs in Ontario if Conservative Leader Tim Hudak is elected, scraps Ontario’s groundbreaking... Read more >
Dear Oprah, As one of the most powerful and influential people in the world and the only living woman to make a list of people who have changed the world, you must possess a strong personal interest and social responsibility when... Read more >
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... Read more >
On June 4, 2011 I took part in the largest act of maritime civil disobedience in history with a group of Greenpeace activists that would become known as the Arctic 18. We boarded the Liev Eiriksson, a deep sea oil drilling platform... Read more >
The vacation is over and this weekend, it's back to reality for President Obama. While the President has been in Martha’s Vineyard, hundreds of people have been uniting outside the White House with a message for Obama: deny the permit... Read more >
The Globe and Mail is reporting today on how Environment Canada predict that expanding the tar sands will single-handedly undo greenhouse gas gains made by weaning the country’s electrical supply off coal. This is a problem,... Read more >
The CD Howe Institute published a paper yesterday by Jan Carr and Benjamin Dachis that criticized Ontario’s approach to renewable energy. I’d like to respond to it, but first some context. I recently had the honour of... Read more >
Media are reporting that scientists with the Arctic Council see evidence that ice in the Arctic is melting faster than they expected. This disturbing news comes right after the Harper government won a majority government. The... Read more >
The speed with which we could put in place a cap-and-trade program is, much to my surprise, a key question in the federal election campaign. The answer is: not long at all, if a government is willing to simply act on the ten years... Read more >
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