Voices from Paris AWARE News Network Helen Szoke Oxfam International This deal offers a frayed life-line to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. Only the vague promise of a new future climate funding target has been made, while the deal does not force countries to cut emissions fast enoug...
By Leanne Grieves and Hazel Wheeler Wildlife Preservation Canada One of the interesting challenges of modern-day conservation is that it’s no longer enough simply to get people to switch from unsustainable practices to greener ones. The problem now is that there are simply so many of us, with such gr...
By Finlay Duncan Birdlife International Birds are among the best studied species in the world, making them great messengers for the effects of climate change. As world leaders gather in Paris to negotiate a global climate change agreement at the UN COP21 summit, a new report, jointly published by Bir...
By Debora Van Brenk, The London Free Press The federal environment minister has put off for three months the hot-button decision about whether a nuclear waste vault can be built beneath the shores of Lake Huron near Kincardine. Activists lobbying against the site applauded the delay, to March 1, 2016...
Mushroom magic connects nature and offers hope for humanity From the David Suzuki Foundation Until 1969, biologists thought mushrooms and other fungi were plants. They’re actually more closely related to animals, but with enough differences that they inhabit their own distinct classification. T...
AWARE News Network The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission hearings into OPG’s request to rebuild their four aging Darlington reactors began yesterday in Courtice, Ontario, and continue today and tomorrow. Link to the agenda for a list of people and organizations making submissions to the commis...
By David Suzuki Volkswagen was caught cheating on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency emissions tests by installing “defeat devices,” which allowed its diesel vehicles to pass nitrogen oxide emissions checks but spew up to 40 times allowable pollutants once they were completed. The scan...
The Ontario Clean Air Alliance asked the candidates in Simcoe North where they stand on the issue of power imports from Quebec. Here’s the OCAA summary of the issues and a link to the candidates’ responses ...
By Tom Villemaire Barrie Examiner Power struggles are nothing new in Simcoe County. Last month Ramara Township council voted to support Innergex Renewable Energy’s 600-acre solar project that is predicted to produce 60 megawatts (mW) of power. As with any power project, there is a power struggl...
By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times Why the province would waste money on its aging nuclear infrastructure when cheap energy can be purchased in Quebec is a question the Ontario Clean Air Alliance wants more people to be asking. The alliance is making its presence felt in the Simcoe Nort...
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