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“Hard Things are Hard” – Part Three - Challenging the Hon. Catherine McKenna on #PoweringPastCoal at #COP23

“Hard Things are Hard” – Part Three – Challenging the Hon. Catherine McKenna on #PoweringPastCoal at #COP23

Opinion- Contributed by Michelle Stirling © Nov 2017

Part Three

Minister McKenna ostensibly went to COP23 to defend Canada’s ‘slow start’ in meeting emissions targets. [1] Certainly, Bonn was an odd place to try and initiate a #PoweringPastCoal campaign as Germany is a vast consumer of coal, oil and natural gas – one of the largest importers of these in the world according to the World Nuclear…

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“Hard Things are Hard” – Part Two - Challenging the Hon. Catherine McKenna on #PoweringPastCoal at #COP23

“Hard Things are Hard” – Part Two – Challenging the Hon. Catherine McKenna on #PoweringPastCoal at #COP23

Opinion – Contributed by Michelle Stirling © Nov. 2017

Part Two

McKenna says she has a climate plan. Even iPolitics says: “She should prove it.” 

Frankly, we doubt that the Minister has a plan. If she has, we’d also like to see the cost-benefit analysis.

The Minister speaks enthusiastically about the “clean” alternatives and spouts about wind, solar and natural gas.  Is she so misinformed that…

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COP 23 – Limiting Emissions by Blowing Smoke

Contributed by Robert Lyman © Nov. 2017

Robert Lyman is a former public servant of 27 years and a diplomat for 10 years prior to that.  He is an Ottawa energy policy consultant and frequent contributor to Friends of Science.

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The 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP 23) to the United Nations Climate Change Convention ended in Bonn on November 18 with a flurry of announcements about…

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COP23 - A New Failure

COP23 – A New Failure

Translation of an article originally published in French on Contrepoints: https://www.contrepoints.org/2017/11/18/303418-cop23-nouvel-echec 

We are witnessing a holy alliance between Third World ecologists and big finance, orchestrated by the European Union, under the amused gaze of the American giant who has now taken leave of all this masquerade.

By Alain Préat, Henri Masson and Drieu…

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