May 6, 2020 Published in the Hamilton Spectator, May 19, 2020. Reports emerged this week that the Ford government in Ontario is quietly setting up an online portal where businesses could ask for regulation or rule changes to help them …
An Ontario Recovery Plan: Energy, Electricity and Climate Change
Sustainable Energy Initiative, York University May 2020 The Government of Ontario has created a Provincial Committee on Jobs and Recovery to discuss options to support jobs and recovery of the Province once the Emergency Orders have been lifted. …
Governments must resist Covid-19 lobbying frenzy; focus on long-term sustainability transition
April 18, 2020 Updated version published in the Conversation, May 14, 2020. Last week a letter to a host federal ministers from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) was leaked to the media. The contained a laundry-list of new …
Executive Summary: Effective and Resilient Governance for Energy Efficiency in Low-Carbon Sustainable Energy Transitions
February 25, 2020 Full report available here Estimates of the technologically and economically achievable potential for energy efficiency improvements in Canada are significant. Modelling by the International Energy Agency and Natural Resources Canada, for example, suggests that under ambitious policy …
Energy conservation needs to take centre stage in Ontario
Published in The Conversation February 24, 2020; Hamilton Spectator February 29, 2020; St.Catherines Standard, February 28, 2020; Cleantech Canada February 28, 2020; Welland Tribune March 3, 2020; Niagara Falls Review, March 4, 2020. The “false alarm” earlier this year at …
New and improved Ford government continues its war on the environment
December 5, 2019 Versions published in The Conversation December 10, 2019; The Hamilton Spectator, December 26, 2019; The Toronto Star, December 28, 2019; The St.Catherines Standard, January 8, 2020. A defining feature of Ontario politics in the aftermath of the …
The 2019 Federal Election: Implications for Climate Change and the Environment.
October 22, 2019 For something that was described as being about “nothing” Monday’s election turned out to be about quite a lot where climate change policy and the environment were concerned. The outcome might be best described for Justine Trudeau’s …
Climate and Environment will determine who is Canada’s next PM
October 19, 2019 The outcome of Monday’s federal election remains uncertain, but recent polling suggests a virtual tie in both popular vote and seats between Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives, but with both parties landing well short of …
‘Mr. Delay, Mr. Deny’ and Canada’s precarious climate change future
The Conversation – October 10, 2019 During the recent federal leaders’ debate, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer only distinguished himself on climate issues by earning the title of “Mr. Deny” from Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democrats. But Scheer nonetheless …
Canada’s Liberals make it hard for green voters to love them
September 11, 2019 Published in The Conversation Published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 18, 2019 The recent appearance in the province of Ontario of Premier Doug Ford’s anti-carbon pricing gas pump stickers reinforced the central role environmental issues may …