Dec 22, 2017 – CBC News –
Ontario company Deltro is installing two warehouse-sized lithium-ion batteries in Toronto. When they get plugged into the Canadian electricity grid in the spring of 2018, they will be Canada’s first utility-scale energy storage project. Industrial battery storage will provide the dependability breakthrough that renewable electricity sources like wind and solar have been waiting for.
+Dec 7, 2017 – New York Times –
Severe wildfire seasons like the one that has devastated California this fall may occur more frequently because of climate change, scientists say. Among other factors, many climate change forecasts suggest that there will be less rain in Southern California in the fall in the future, and more rain in December and January. That means fires could continue later into the fall, greatly extending the fire risk season.
+Nov 27, 2017 – Winnipeg Sun –
A public town hall and round table discussion will be held on Manitoba’s Climate and Green Plan, Tuesday night at the University of Winnipeg Convocation Hall.
+Nov 26, 2017 – Winnipeg Metro –
Manitoba’s Climate and Green Plan Town Hall will be on Tuesday Nov. 28 from 6–9 p.m. at Convocation Hall at the University of Winnipeg. Curt Hull from Climate Change Connection will be one of the panelists.
+Nov 17, 2017 – The Guardian –
Using diesel trucks now ‘economic suicide’, says Musk.
+Nov 17, 2017 – Winnipeg Sun –
The NDP’s alternative throne speech includes a plan to devote $125 million of the $250 million of carbon tax revenues to interest-free loans to purchase electric vehicles.
+Nov 15, 2017 – CTV News –
TransCanada Corp. said its original Keystone pipeline has leaked an estimated 795,000 litres of oil in Marshall County, S.D. just days before Nebraska is set to decide the fate of plans to expand the pipeline network.
+Nov 13, 2017 – The Guardian –
The rise would end three years of flat carbon emissions – a ‘huge leap backward’ say some scientists, while others say the longer term trend is more hopeful
+Nov 7, 2017 – Washington Post –
President Trump has put America at odds with the rest of the world, literally, when it comes to the goal of combating climate change.
+Oct 28, 2017 – Global News –
The battle over Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is heating up, with protesters targeting construction at the company’s Westridge Terminal in Burnaby on Saturday.
+Oct 27, 2017 – CBC News –
Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government announced their “Made-in-Manitoba Climate and Green Plan” on Friday, including $25-per-tonne carbon price.
+Oct 26, 2017 – National Post –
All of Canada is projected to get warmer in the future, including an “explosion” of 30 C plus days, even under a low-carbon scenario.
+Oct 23, 2017 – The Guardian –
A new study finds that Americans are willing to pay an extra $15 per month on energy bills to tackle climate change.
+Oct 19, 2017 – Inside Climate News –
In all, 40 transit authorities in the United States have started integrating electric buses into their routes. The buses are more expensive up front but save cities money on fuel and other costs
+Oct 12, 2017 – Winnipeg Free Press –
A made-in-Manitoba green plan will be revealed in two weeks — after Premier Brian Pallister’s government received a legal opinion it is the only way to avoid having Ottawa impose its own plan.
+Oct 7, 2017 – Vox –
“Energy analysts have made the point again and again that fossil fuels, not renewable energy, most benefit from supportive public policy. Yet this fact, so inconvenient to the conservative worldview, never seems to sink in to the energy debate in a serious way.”
+Oct 5, 2017 – Canadian Press –
TransCanada has cancelled plans for the Energy East pipeline and Eastern Mainline projects that were to take Alberta oilsands production to Quebec and New Brunswick and for export.
+Oct 2, 2017 – Wired –
This morning, General Motors announced that it is working toward an all-electric, zero-emissions future. That starts with two new, fully electric models next year—then at least 18 more by 2023.
+Sep 26, 2017 – Globe and Mail –
Walking is good for the environment, crime prevention, community-building and the economy. Conversely, the most unhealthy, unsafe, anti-social and costly thing people do routinely is drive.
+Sep 25, 2017 – PR Newswire –
The Canadian and Manitoba governments have announced at total of about $200,000 in funding for active and public transportation projects in 5 Manitoba communities.
+Sep 12, 2017 – Tax News –
BC’s new NDP Government has announced that it will increase the carbon tax by $5 per tonne a year for four years. In addition, the obligation that the carbon tax must be revenue neutral will be lifted.
+Sep 12, 2017 – Washington Post –
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) found that 517 companies have put a price on carbon and 732 are planning to do so in the next two years.
+Sep 11, 2017 – Civil Eats –
New study finds that organic farms have 26 percent more long-term carbon storage potential than conventional farms.
+Sep 8, 2017 – CBC News –
TransCanada will suspend the application for its Energy East pipeline for 30 days and may abandon the project, the company said on Thursday, weeks after the National Energy Board regulator announced a tougher review process.
+Sep 6, 2017 – The Guardian –
One week after the record deluge in Texas, the biggest hurricane ever measured in the mid-Atlantic is tearing through the Caribbean.
+Sep 5, 2017 – CBC News –
Winnipeggers could pay more for less bus service if the province goes ahead with a planned funding change, according to local transit advocates.
+Aug 27,2017 – The Atlantic –
“The breadth and intensity of this rainfall are beyond anything experienced before.” said a statement from the National Weather Service. What role did human-caused global warming play in strengthening this storm?
+Aug 26, 2017 – Washington Post –
Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Southeast Texas on Friday night. The storm stalled over Southeast Texas and is forecast to remain there through the middle of the week unloading tremendous rainfall.
+Aug 24, 2017 – CBC News –
Canada’s national energy regulator says it will for the first time consider the impact of upstream and downstream emissions from potential increased consumption of oil at hearings into the Energy East Pipeline.
+Aug 15, 2017 – DeSmog.org –
The Manitoba government has effectively stopped talking about their climate plan. In fact, the latest action by the PCs has been to publicly announce that it’s seeking legal guidance on the constitutionality of a federally imposed carbon price.
+Aug 15, 2017 – CBC News –
The Council of the District of Saanich BC has voted to send a “Climate Accountability Letter” to 20 of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies, asking the companies to pay their share of the municipality’s climate costs.
+Aug 10, 2017 – Winnipeg Sun –
Shipping goods to Manitoba’s north has never been cheap, and the closure of Churchill’s rail line has brought that to the forefront.
+Aug 10, 2017 – Winnipeg Free Press –
OPINION – If the Manitoba government is committed to reducing emissions — as it is — then it must make an important policy choice about how to do so.
+Aug 10, 2017 – The Guardian –
While Europe does battle with a heatwave named Lucifer, the Middle East is enduring a summer so brutal that even those accustomed to Baghdad’s searing August are labelling it “ungodly”.
+Aug 3, 2017 – CBC News –
Carbon pricing schemes form an essential part of fighting climate change and must be part of Manitoba’s plan, a new coalition argues.
+Jul 30, 2017 – Omaha World-Herald –
The Keystone XL pipeline might be unnecessary. Opponents of the controversial tar sands pipeline have suggested this for some time, but more and more people inside the oil industry are now saying time has passed by the project.
+Jul 27, 2017 – Winnipeg Free Press –
Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna thinks it’s time for Premier Brian Pallister to show everyone his carbon-taxing cards.
+Jul 24, 2017 – Financial Post –
Three companies are teaming up with the federal government to install 34 electric vehicle fast-charging stations along the Trans-Canada Highway in an attempt to encourage the adoption of zero-emission vehicles.
+Jul 21, 2017 – Clean Energy Canada –
GreenPower Motor Company, headquartered in Vancouver, will supply Porterville, California with 10 locally-built, zero-emission transit buses within the next year.
+Jul 11, 2017 – CBC News –
The Cariboo, Kamloops and Southeast regions of BC have been under extreme fire danger for the past two weeks. As heat records are broken, hot, dry conditions have led to a highly combustible environment.
+Jul 5, 2017 – New York Times –
Volvo Cars on Wednesday became the first mainstream automaker to sound the death knell of the internal combustion engine, saying that all the models it introduces starting in 2019 will be either hybrids or powered solely by batteries.
+Jun 26, 2017 – The Verge –
Last month, hailstones as big as baseballs pounded the Denver area resulting in Colorado’s costliest catastrophe, totaling $1.4 billion in damages. If climate change goes unchecked, we might see more of these extreme hailstorms in the future.
+Jun 21, 2017 – Winnipeg Free Press –
Public works chairman Coun. Marty Morantz moved a motion at council Wednesday calling for Transit to consider more frequent service on routes with high ridership as part of its long-term strategic plan.
+Jun 20, 2017 – The Verge –
An intense heat wave is crippling the West this week, sending the mercury above 49°C in places like Phoenix. In a sign of just how hot things are getting, some airlines have had to cancel flights because of the heat.
+Jun 15, 2017 – The Star –
Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the only two provinces that have not signed on, have been told they will only get their share of the funding if they sign up by the end of the year.
+Jun 14, 2017 – The Guardian –
Warm temperatures create perilous ice conditions off Newfoundland, trapping fishing boats and tankers: ‘It’s not something you would expect to see there’
+Jun 12, 2017 – Treehugger –
Baron Karl von Drais needed a way to replace his horse; today we need a way to replace the car.
+Jun 5, 2017 – Edmonton Sun –
Edmonton launched a three-year pilot project Monday to track the energy efficiency of its large buildings, hoping to have as many as 300 taking part in the voluntary program.
+Jun 2, 2017 – Associated Press –
In reacting to Trump’s announcement that he was withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, China reaffirmed its commitment to the landmark agreement and is poised to spend heavily in coming years on renewables.
+May 28, 2017 – CBC News –
On Sunday, hundreds of people gathered outside of Kinder Morgan’s Terminal in Burnaby at the conclusion of a 75-kilometre “Walk for the Salish Sea” protest march from Victoria to the Vancouver.
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+May 19, 2017 – Winnipeg Free Press –
At Providence College, four fuel sources provide heating to its campus: natural gas, electricity, biomass and geothermal. Duggan said it wasn’t tree-hugging environmentalism that drove the college towards greener heat. Rather, it was fiscal prudence.
+May 18, 2017 – Financial Post –
According to a new report by Stanford University economist Tony Seba, no more petrol or diesel cars, buses, or trucks will be sold anywhere in the world within eight years .
+May 10, 2017 – Winnipeg Sun –
Premier Brian Pallister says he plans to exempt Manitoba farmers from paying a carbon price.
+May 7, 2017 – The Metro –
Thousands of Canadians across the country spent the weekend in a desperate struggle with rising floodwaters caused by unusually persistent rainfall.
+May 2, 2017 – The Metro –
Retrofitting buildings and new energy efficient programs are all part of Edmonton’s plans to reduce emissions as Edmonton becomes warmer and drier.
+Apr 26, 2017 – Globe & Mail –
Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore is warning against massive geoengineering experiments that attempt to reverse climate change, arguing instead that the focus must remain on cutting emissions that are warming the planet.
+Apr 26, 2017 – Winnipeg Free Press –
The world is heating up — and much more quickly than expected, according to a new Arctic research report from Dr David Barber of the University of Manitoba Sea-ice Environmental Research Facility.
+Apr 23, 2017 – The Metro –
Winnipeg transit advocates are hoping an event series could spark a movement calling for improved bus service in the City of Winnipeg.
+Apr 22, 2o17 – The Guardian –
More than 600 marches took place around the world, on every continent bar Antarctica, as organizers say science ‘under attack’.
+Apr 18, 2017 – Yale Climate Connections –
Reddit online commenters point to reasons they went from being climate contrarians to having confidence in mainstream climate science.
+Apr 17, 2017 – The Guardian –
OPINION – “Donald Trump is a creep and unpleasant to look at, but at least he’s not a stunning hypocrite when it comes to climate change” – Bill McKibben
+Apr 9, 2017 – The Guardian –
When British Prime Minister John Major set up his global warming strategy for the UK, the doom-mongers said it would ruin living standards. New research shows how wrong they were.
+Apr 3, 2017 – The Guardian –
European Environment Agency reports solar and and wind is reducing fossil fuel dependency but clean energy capacity still not growing fast enough
+Mar 13, 2017 – Vox –
Tribal sovereignty is a concept that even some of the protesters may not be familiar with. But it’s important.
+Mar 3, 2017 – CBC News –
Manitobans can now weigh in on where the province should set its carbon tax and what should be done with the revenue.
+Feb 28, 2017 – The Guardian –
Critics say public information film shows Shell ‘understood the threat was dire, potentially existential for civilisation, more than a quarter of a century ago’
+Feb 26, 2017 – The Province –
Goodbye Vancouver, hello San Diego. A major climate-change study predicts temperatures in Metro Vancouver will exceed those of present-day Southern California in the coming decades.
+Feb 26, 2017 – CBC News –
Manitoba’s environment critic is hoping to electrify transportation in the province using an interest-free loan incentive.
+Feb 23, 2017 – Next City –
On May 1, Columbus will become the next U.S. city to enact an overnight bus overhaul, a la Houston, Anchorage, Jacksonville and others.
+Feb 13, 2017 – Wired –
On Saturday, more than 200 hackers, scientists, and students on UC Berkeley’s campus worked to rescue federal US climate data.
+Feb 13, 2017 – Inside Climate News –
Record-high temperatures spike concerns about climate change’s new normal in the melting Arctic and an already-hot Australia.
+Feb 10, 2017 – The Guardian –
New South Wales is expected to experience its hottest February day on record this weekend with emergency services on high alert for catastrophic fire conditions.
+Feb 10, 2017 – Winnipeg Free Press –
Faced with potentially double-digit increases in hydro rates, solar power installations are booming in Manitoba.
+Jan 26, 2017 – CBC News –
On Thursday afternoon, Prime Minister Trudeau will respond to questions from the public in a town hall at the University of Winnipeg downtown campus.
+Jan 20, 2017 – Variety –
Ten years after ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ Al Gore brings the news on climate change again in a doc that’s anything but hot air.
+Jan 19, 2017 – TheTyee –
Pipeline approvals ‘make the goals impossible to reach,’ finds Oil Change International.
+Jan 18, 2017 – Winnipeg Metro –
The Manitoba Race to Reduce is underway as those who operate some of the largest commercial office spaces in Manitoba compete to save at least 10 percent of their energy use in the next four years.
+Jan 18, 2017 – Climate Central –
2016 was the hottest year in 137 years of record keeping and the third year in a row to take the number one slot, a mark of how much the world has warmed over the last century because of human activities, U.S. government scientists announced Wednesday.
+Jan 10, 2017 – E&E News –
Four of the largest West Coast cities are asking automakers whether they can produce “a potentially record-breaking order” of 24,000 electric vehicles. “The hope is that by next month there could be additional cities in the request that hopefully brings the demand for EVs to 50,000 or perhaps even 100,000.”
+Jan 3, 2017 – Winnipeg Metro –
Many of the biggest fear-based myths that get raised in city-building conversation are shown to be untrue when you apply cold hard counting to the conversation.
+Jan 3, 2017 – The Independent –
The world’s largest private power production company warns the sector that renewables could drive the oil price as low as $10 a barrel
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