Canada
This past week, more than 7 thousand people in communities across British Columbia attended protests against pipelines projects that would make it possible to ship crude oil from Alberta to Asia.
There was a clever headline in the satirical newspaper The Onion last week that wouldn’t be so humorous if it wasn’t true. “300 Million Without Electricity In India After Restoration Of Power Grid,” the headline read.
Canadian scientists are taking to the streets in protest of the Harper government's latest cuts to scientific research and its increasingly backward environmental policies.
Christy Clark, the premier of British Columbia, has joined the ranks of public officials the world over, which have clouded the definition of "clean energy" by using the term to seve their own interests.
Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again. Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States.
As governments roll out public policy directing increased biofuel production for all sectors of the transportation industry, serious questions around environmental sustainability still remain.
As many of you know most of the gasoline available in North America today has a biofuel component of between 5 and 10 percent. Newer cars and trucks are E85 compatible, meaning they can operate with up to 85 percent ethanol blended into the gasoline -- which means there is a total growth opportunity of up to 75 percent in the North American biofuel market.
The March 11, 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster has precipitated a world of change in Japan's nuclear power industry.
A few weeks ago, I wrote to the President urging him to make North America more energy self-sufficient and to promote common-sense regulatory controls for all forms of energy in our hemisphere - while at the same time continuing to encourage both sustainable energy projects and responsible energy use.
The Keystone XL pipeline saga took a new turn today in Cushing, Oklahoma. While in Cushing, President Obama announced a new Executive Order on Improving Performance of Federal Permitting and Review of Infrastructure Projects.
