He notes that the U.S. has been driven to seek alternative supplies of stuff you can fill up the car with because the country is so heavily dependent on foreign suppliers like "turbulent Canada and militant Mexico". He doesn't really back up the statement, but it's odd and a little alarming to see that Will, who represents a certain conservative orthodoxy in the Washington, assumes that things north of the border are "turbulent."

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Natural Resources Minister to the head of Canada's nuclear safety watchdog: "...these events cast doubt on whether you possess the fundamental good judgement required ... [There is] .. a lack of confidence by all parties in your judgement."   more »

In December, Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn sent a letter to nuclear safety regulator chief Linda Keen saying, essentially, tell me why we shouldn't fire you. Today, Keen fires back with a blistering response accusing Lunn of interfering with the "administration of justice."   more »

For more than 20 years the Government of Canada has supported the development of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies with a total contribution of approximately $300 million...   more »

The Calgary Herald’ s Lisa Schmidt today reports that 2007 was a big year for oilsands producers and that 2008 and beyond will be even busier. Canadian oil production rose nearly eight per cent...   more »

This argument is the starting point for Jason Mark in a long piece in The Utne Reader which looks at the tension within the green movement over the role of nuclear energy in an era when climate change is the greatest threat to the planet: The argument over nuclear power reveals a long-standing tension in the environmental movement between those who say there are technical fixes to the greenhouse gas challenge and others who believe that we need a wholesale restructuring of society if we are to avoid global meltdown.... And so we find 'greenies' like Stewart Brand, he's the guy behind the Whole Earth Catalog, a After decades of decline, the nuclear industry is on the upswing, cheered along, oddly enough, by green activists who once fought the industry but now say that nukes are better than coal given the global threat of climate change.

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As Canadian politicians, including Environment Minister John Baird and Liberal Stephane Dion, make their to key climate change meetings in Bali, Indonesia next week, a new report (PDF, 765 kb) from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) tracks renewable energy use:

Renewable energy is increasingly being used as a mainstream ...   more »

Canada’s decision to join the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) is controversial in some circles. The NDP and Greens reject the organization and the Liberals say this decision has not yet been subjected to proper Parliamentary scrutiny.

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Charles Ferguson and Sharon Squassoni writing at Foreign Policy’s Web site, argue:

As the planet warms, leaders from Washington to Beijing are pushing nuclear power as a clean alternative to coal. But this new strategy for fighting climate change has a fatal flaw: It can’t possibly work.

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NYMEX Considers Trading Greenhouse Emissions

NEW YORK - The New York Mercantile Exchange is considering trade in global warming emissions credits, a bourse senior executive said Wednesday.

"We have been looking at it, and will continue, and think it has promise," Robert Levin, senior vice president of research at NYMEX, ...   more »