Mitchell Beer

Canada's push to finance megaprojects and reach new export markets repeats age-old patterns of resource extraction, Teika Newton, executive director of the Lake of the Woods Water Sustainability Foundation, told The Energy Mix.

Canada's cleantech sector generated about $43.3 billion in GDP and $10.8 billion in exports in 2024, figures that surprise many Canadians—including people in government, says Peter McArthur, chair of the Canada Cleantech Alliance.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit quietly brought clean energy right into the middle of the investment conversation, says senior financial analyst Sandra Odendahl of Catalyst Climate Capital.

The Canada Pension Plan is supposed to invest in the best interest of the 22 million of us whose retirement savings it holds. Instead, they're rolling the dice on gas plants to power AI data centres.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s overtures to the European Union about associate membership status may be the next prompt for Canada to move toward decarbonizing its energy system and high-emitting industries—whether or not that outcome is on the PM’s immediate agenda.

The LNG Canada megaproject in Kitimat, British Columbia, is expected to announce a final investment decision today to double its output to up to 30 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year, the Globe and Mail and Reuters reported Monday.

50 years ago on Oct. 1, an analysis in the journal Foreign Affairs mapped out a “soft” energy path that would have drastically reduced energy demand, shifted economies off fossil and nuclear energy, handed households and communities more control over their energy future—and concluded in 2025, if it had been allowed to run its course.

“Keep one eye on the world as it is, and the other on the world as it ought to be, confusing neither and abandoning neither,” urges Green Central Banking Publisher Peter McKillop.

Two-term city councillor Pete Fry will take the helm of British Columbia’s biggest city and become the first Green Party mayor of a major Canadian municipality after Vancouver voters swept away the former ABC administration led by incumbent Ken Sim.

No one is abandoning the 1.5°C goal from the Paris agreement. But even in ‘the world as it is’, we need to be laser-focused on how to get there this century.