Stock image From BarrieToday, April 22, 2022 The City of Barrie has established a plan with actions and strategies for improving energy efficiency and reducing community-wide Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. On March 28, 2022, Barrie city council approved the Community Energy & Greenhouse Gas Redu...
By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance As reported in today’s Globe and Mail, thanks to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request filed by the Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA), we now know that the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) fully understood that its re...
Trees/shrubs for sale for the “1000 TREES” project Here are 4 things that you can do to help reduce climate change: Get a RAIN BARREL, for as low as $15 (after the $30 rebate from the town) Help plant 1000 TREES on May 14. Plant a tree/shrub in your yard in support of the “1000 […]...
This is a 10 Kilowatt solar system currently in place in Oro-Medonte. Supplied photo From OrilliaMatters, March 4, 2022 By Sustainable Orillia According to a recent Abacus poll, a majority of Canadians think clean energy is more important to Canada’s economy than are oil and gas. In every part of the...
Raymond Bowe/BarrieToday From BarrieToday, February 18, 2022 A Letter to the Editor Despite Colin Hunt’s assertions to the contrary, we can triple our imports of low-cost Quebec water power using our existing transmission lines with Quebec. In 2021, the average price of Hydro Quebec’s electricity exp...
Steel pipe to be used in the oil pipeline construction of the Canadian government’s Trans Mountain Expansion Project lies at a stockpile site in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada June 18, 2019. REUTERS/Dennis Owen This morning we received some huge news. First, the government-owned Trans Mountain co...
By Peter McCartney, Climate Campaigner, Wilderness Committee Feds quit funding pipeline as costs soar to $21.4B For the first time in a long time, I’ve got good news to share about Trans Mountain. Today, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the federal government will not pay for ballooning c...
An Equinor project in the Tampen area of the North Sea. | Equinor/Bo B. Randulff & Even Kleppa By Conor Curtis, Digital Communications Coordinator, Sierra Club Canada Foundation Right now the Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and the Federal Cabinet are considering a controversial oil and ga...
By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance Energy Minister Todd Smith’s proposal to establish a lower overnight electricity rate for electric vehicle charging will reward Ontario families that purchase electric cars and pick-up trucks. But we also need a zero-carbon electricity gr...
By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) is preparing to take another stab at planning for the decarbonization of Ontario’s electricity system. The IESO’s first attempt to look at what it would take for Ontario to phase-out the ...
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