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Nov 4th, 2021
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B.C. Plan Risks GHG Emissions from ‘Blue’ Hydrogen By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance With climate change alarms screaming and world leaders meeting in Glasgow in what may be our final chance to take real action to avoid the worst impacts of climate heating, Ontario Energy...
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Nov 4th, 2021
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By Adriana and Maggie from Leadnow, November 5, 2021 UPDATE: Canada has committed to ending financing for international fossil fuel projects by the end of 2022. This is part of an international effort announced at COP26, the global climate summit, and includes countries like the US. [1] This is thank...
Nov 3rd, 2021
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From 2016 to 2019, Canada’s emissions leapt 3.3 per cent, according to a new report. Trudeau photo / Twitter At the opening of the the United Nations climate negotiations (COP 26) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talked about the deadly heatwave that Canada experienced this summer, and about Lytton burn...
Nov 1st, 2021
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By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith will give the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) its marching orders for phasing out gas-fired power during a public online speech to the agency on November 3rd. We are counting on Minister S...
Nov 1st, 2021
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Greta Thunberg and other inspiring youth leaders like Vanessa, Mitzi, and Dominika just signed this powerful open letter on the climate crisis — can you sign, too? Please sign here: https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/climate_action_now_loc/?kQAjMab To world leaders: “Betrayal.”Tha...
Oct 26th, 2021
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Photo by Luigi Alvarez via Pexels From BarrieToday, October 26, 2021 The provincial conservative government has decided to prioritize highway proposals like the 413 and the ‘Holland Marsh Highway’ in their re-election campaign as a means of addressing the pressing issue of gridlock around...
Oct 26th, 2021
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Midhurst, ON:  Through a petition released by Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition (SCGC) and sent formally to the County of Simcoe, hundreds of residents have expressed their desire to stop sprawl and build healthy, sustainable communities across the region. Currently, the County of Simcoe is completin...
Oct 23rd, 2021
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By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance Yesterday the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) acknowledged, in a follow-up to its recent report on the feasibility of a gas-fired electricity phase-out, that it has significant work to do. We couldn’t agree more and we than...
Oct 12th, 2021
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From BradfordToday, October 12, 2021 By Julie Johnson ‘All leaders need to check their presumption that what happens to the ecology in Innisfil or Bradford or Toronto doesn’t need to matter to the rest of us,’ reader says The IPCC report on climate came out only a few months ago, telling ...
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Oct 9th, 2021
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Joe Oliver, Chair, IESO By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance Yesterday the so-called “Independent” Electricity System Operator (IESO), under the helm of climate denier Joe Oliver, released a report that seems more like a pre-Halloween prank than a serious analysis of how Ont...