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Alberta Wide Rally 2016 - Lest We Forget
Alberta Wide Rally 2016 – Lest We Forget
Photo Credit M Stirling – from balcony at McDougall Centre Calgary
On November 5, 2016, some 9,000 Albertans gathered in 13 communities to peacefully protest the carbon tax and Alberta Climate Plan. Lest we forget. This was a truly grassroots event. Kudos to the organizers and all who came out.
Video of Calgary, McDougall Centre presentations.
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“Hard Things are Hard” – Challenging the Hon. Catherine McKenna on #PoweringPastCoal at #COP23
Opinion – Contributed by Michelle Stirling © Nov. 2017
Part One
At the recent #COP23 Conference of the Parties (to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), the Hon. Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change for Canada, took the lead to announce the development of an alliance called #PoweringPastCoal – saying to CBC The National that: “hard things are hard”…t…
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What They Did Not Hear at the Generation Energy Forum
What They Did Not Hear at the Generation Energy Forum
Contributed by Robert Lyman © 2017
Robert Lyman is an Ottawa energy policy consultant, former public servant of 27 years and a diplomat for 10 years prior to that.
For two days over the past week, Canadian Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr hosted a conference in Winnipeg that was billed as the launching of a “Generation Energy Process”, one that will lead to the development of a new energy…
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The Cost-Benefit Question on City of Calgary Climate Change Plans
The Cost-Benefit Question on City of Calgary Climate Change Plans
In his book Decadent Societies, historian Robert Adams wrote,
“[B]y the fifth century, men were ready to abandon civilization itself in order to escape the fearful load of taxes.”
The City of Calgary has been actively engaged in incorporating climate change planning into almost every level of municipal culture.
Sometimes citizen’s groups have been involved, like Sustainable Calgary.
Sometimes…
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