By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance Ontario Power Generation (OPG) publicly announced at an event this morning that it has selected US-based GE Hitachi to build a new $3 billion reactor at the Darlington Nuclear Station in Canada’s largest urban area. As usual with these so...
Premier Doug Ford arrives for a media briefing at Queen’s Park on Oct. 15, 2021. CHRIS YOUNG / THE CANADIAN PRESS From the Toronto Star, Nov. 27, 2021 By Martin Regg Cohn If there is a climate emergency on planet Earth, it appears to have gone unnoticed in Doug Ford’s Ontario. In Glasgow this month,...
Paulette Dennis, Gillian, Frank McEnaney, and Peter Dennis protest at Simcoe-Grey MP Terry Dowdall’s office against the pending purchase of fighter jets by the federal government. Erika Engel/CollingwoodToday From BarrieToday, November 24, 2021 By Erika Engel A group of Collingwood-area residen...
RCMP raid a camp and arrest Wet’suwet’en opponents, of a 670-kilometre natural gas pipeline and freelance photographer Amber Bracken. YINTAH FILM SCREEN GRAB From the Toronto Star, November 24, 2021 By Jeremy Nuttall Vancouver Bureau and Kieran Leavitt Edmonton Bureau Footage of the RCMP...
Eugene Bourgeois had no concerns about nuclear energy in 1974 when he located his farm next door to the world’s largest nuclear facility – Bruce Nuclear Station in Kincardine, Ontario. There, he and his wife Ann ran a successful wool business and taught generations of people around the world th...
By Becky Smit, Campaign Chair, Ontario Greens On November 22, Ontario’s Auditor General released the Annual Report of Environmental Audits, and unsurprisingly, Doug Ford got an ‘F’ on his report card. The damning report said that for the third year in a row the Ministry of the Environment, Conservati...
From 350.org Earlier this week, a climate-charged atmospheric river delivered unprecedented rainstorms across BC’s lower mainland. Rivers rose, storms surged, highways were washed away and the entire city of Merritt had to be evacuated. Many of the images from the flooding are harrowing, but one imag...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault hold a press conference at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland on Nov. 2. SEAN KILPATRICK / THE CANADIAN PRESS From the Toronto Star, November 17, 2021 By Linda McQuaig During the Second World War, no Canadian woul...
Stock Image From Orillia Matters, November 7, 2021 Letter to the editor Population growth is coming in Ontario, but the big question is how to plan for it in ways we won’t regret, says letter writer Ontario’s population is expected to grow by almost 5.3 million over the next 26 years. The big questio...
MIT Centre for Energy and Environmental Policy Research By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance To their credit, in Glasgow today, Canada joined a group of “progressive first movers” in announcing it will no longer use public money to finance international fossil fuel projects....
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