The word ‘climate’ has been conspicuous by its absence in the federal parties’ policy platforms and leadership debates during Canada’s election, overshadowed in voters’ minds by questions of national economic sovereignty in the face of US tariffs, cost of living affordability and health care.
Yet the climate crisis is a red thread lock-stitching these top-of-mind issues together. From the high-profile discussions of cross-country clean energy powerlines and pipelines through the high-price impacts of climate change on home insurance to the high-cost burden on the country’s health care provision, the environmental damage being wreaked by our continued prioritization of a fossil fuel-fired society is plain for all to see.
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Canadians are a solutions-minded people, however. It comes with the territory in the Great White North. And this has been reflected in the best-read stories I’ve written for CNO in the election cycle:
- A coast-to-coast clean-energy grid is not only financially and technically viable we were told in ’Electro-shock’: Could Trump tariffs energize ambitions for a trans-Canada power grid’, but would be faster and cheaper to build than any oil and gas trunkline - indeed, so could a wind- and hydro-fed high voltage power line linking Canada to Europe across the Atlantic.
- Government-backed strategic reserves of lithium, nickel, copper and other critical minerals and metals key to Canada’s national security and its energy transition need a network of processing facilities if they are to spur reindustrialization of the mining sector, open up new export markets, and boost the country’s flagging EV ecosystem strategy.
- North America’s largest urban solar power park is set to take shape in Medicine Hat – aka “Gas City”, as the Alberta city is known due the area’s vast fossil gas reserves – in a major stride forward in decarbonizing Canada’s old industrial landscape.
Moreover, my pieces on innovative start-up Daanaa - Could a fob-size power chip supercharge solar energy — and everything else? One B.C. start-up thinks so – and a pioneering project to help develop green concrete – Alberta set to build world's first full-sized zero carbon cement plant, shows the adage ‘technology saves’ has never been more important to our fast-growing readership.
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