environment

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Article notes fast-growing demand for energy from countries in the developing world.

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Provincial carbon taxes will continue to distort energy markets, raise energy and food prices, and reduce economic competitiveness.


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UBC's board of governors has voted against selling off its $85 million stake in fossil-fuel businesses.


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During the recent election campaign, the new federal government committed to pursuing evidence-based public policy.


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Alberta’s environmental performance, much like any other Canadian province, has been one of continuing environmental improvement.


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As pretty much everyone in the world knows by now, Pope Francis published an encyclical recently On Care for Our Common Home, which discusses all things environmental—climate change, of course, but also air pollution, water pollution, sustainable development, the precautionary principle…the list goes on through 184-pages.


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A new report from the government of Canada, on Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2013, is making news. And as usual, the bad news leads.


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Four recent oil-train derailments—two in the United States and two in Canada accompanied by yet another drive-by rhetorical smear of the Keystone XL pipeline by U.S. President Barack Obama—have re-invigorated the debate over how Canadians and Americans transport oil.


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On Feb. 24, President Barack Obama vetoed Senate Bill 1, a.k.a. “The Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act.” Mr. Obama’s action was not only predictable, it was virtually inevitable given a) the political polarization in the United States; b) unrelenting environmental opposition to the pipeline; and c) a certain amount of congressional over-reach.