Policy

Energy companies are undoubtedly relieved that the BC Liberals, led by Christy Clark, will keep running the province. It means that Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline, and Kinder-Morgan’s Trans-Canada pipeline remain on the table - despite a few conditions Premier Clark has already laid out.

On Monday, President Barak Obama nominated the assistant administrator for Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation, Gina McCarthy, as the administration’s new head, replacing Lisa Jackson. On Thursday, however, eight Republicans on the failed to show up for her nomination vote, thereby stalling the process for an undetermined period.

Utility companies, that’s who. David Roberts over at Grist has just posted a fantastic series stemming from a report by the Edison Electronic Institute’s that outlines how the success of small-scale renewables could make utility companies, as we know them, obsolete.

As a panelist on the Pembina Institute’s webinar, Competing in Clean Energy, Dan Balaban, CEO of Greengate Power, said that Canada’s clean energy policies are the worst in the world, and since starting up his company in 2007, every form of government support for his business has vanished.

Quebec’s announcement that it will harmonize its cap and trade carbon market with California’s has bumped the price of the state’s carbon futures up 30 cents to 13.75 per metric ton.

Institutional investors from around the world representing funds worth $22.5 trillion have written an open letter to the governments of the world’s largest economies, asking for a massively increased action to fight climate change.

British Petroleum has reached an agreement with the US government to resolve all criminal charges related to the 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

63 percent of voters in Michigan rejected a ballot initiative in yesterday’s election, known as Proposal 3, which would have required utilities to produce 25% of their power from renewable sources - and enshrined that requirement in the constit

A while back I wrote a post on the need to get India’s solar boom right solar boom right.

This week, just one year after winning his third mandate, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, announced his resignation. The announcement has provoked speculation on what led to the decision, and what his legacy will be.