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John Woodside

Reporter Ottawa English
Investigations, Energy, Politics, federal politics, Clean energy, climate change, climate targets
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About John Woodside

John Woodside is Canada's National Observer's Ottawa-based climate reporter. Focusing on climate finance, lobbying and on energy policy in Canada and the climate emergency, Woodside brings years of experience as an energy journalist to the job. His investigations contain unique, in-depth research that results in high impact journalism. John covered federal policy for Canada's National Observer thanks to a grant from the Local Journalism Initiative and the Government of Canada from May to December 2021.

Before joining Canada's National Observer, John reported on energy for allNewBrunswick and allNewfoundlandLabrador, and focused on Muskrat Falls, nuclear power, and the Irving group of companies.

He has also worked with Cited Media and with the foreign policy news outlet OpenCanada.

He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Masters in Journalism.

144 Articles

Canadian banks, insurance companies have poured millions into Russian oil and gas

Canadian banks, insurance companies and asset managers have pumped millions into Russian-owned oil and gas companies that have flowed into the petrostate’s war chest.
Financing disaster
News, Energy, Politics | March 2nd 2022

Canada and the IPCC report’s ‘atlas of human suffering’

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is warning of “unavoidable multiple climate hazards” over the next two decades in a clear recognition society is entering an era of irreversible breakdown without immediate action.
Reports from the Race to a Safer World
News, Energy | March 1st 2022

Banks’ charitable donations called a smokescreen for fossil fuel investments — and a turnoff for young customers

Canadian banks are using “strategic philanthropy” to paper over growing climate concerns in an attempt to lock in young customers for life.
Financing disaster
News, Business, Energy | February 25th 2022

Climate resolution forces RBC to reckon with greenwashing

Investors for Paris Compliance is forcing RBC to stare down a resolution that would stop it from greenwashing billions of dollars that the bank bills as sustainable.
Financing disaster
News, Business, Energy | February 22nd 2022

Canada’s export credit agency needs to clean up its act on climate: study

If Canada wants to be a credible climate leader, it needs to align its export credit agency with the Paris Agreement goals immediately, says a new report from a leading international think tank.
News, Energy, Politics, Ottawa Insider | February 15th 2022

Wet’suwet’en want UN spotlight on Coastal GasLink crisis

Gidimt’en land defenders are calling for the United Nations to visit Wet’suwet’en unceded territory to witness the alleged violation of Indigenous rights.
News, Energy, Politics, Ottawa Insider | February 8th 2022

93-year-old father of Canadian climate science reflects on the most consequential events of his career

Since the 1950s, Jim Bruce has played a role in some of the most consequential events in climate science at home and abroad. At 93, the renowned climate scientist gives Canada's National Observer his take on what it will take to pull human society out of its death spiral.
News, Politics, Ottawa Insider | February 2nd 2022

Aviation’s nasty unclaimed carbon emissions baggage

How greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation sector are flying under the radar.
Canada's biggest emitters
News | January 27th 2022

An explosive report on one of the largest carbon capture and storage facilities in Alberta

Carbon capture’s questionable numbers spell concern for Canada’s hydrogen plans
News, Business, Energy, Politics, Ottawa Insider | January 26th 2022

Orphan wells set to become Canada's billion-dollar problem

Cleaning up orphaned oil and gas wells will cost Canada over a billion dollars by 2025, a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer finds.
News, Politics, Ottawa Insider | January 25th 2022
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