New scientific analysis released today on the impacts of the aviation industry on our climate should give pause to government and industry leaders.

The report, produced by the Manchester Metropolitan University's Centre for Air Transport and Environment, titled "Mitigating future aviation CO2 emissions -- timing is...

Early this fall, a relatively unknown agency of the United Nations will be deciding on what to do about the massive amounts of climate pollution produced by the global airline industry.

The global aviation sector, mainly made up of commercial passenger airlines, is responsible for a whopping six-percent of all...

John Bryant, CEO of snack food giant Kellogg's, found himself in hot water last week on a quarterly earnings call when one investor took the company to town for its part in destroying vital tiger habitat in Indonesia.

Tony the Tiger is probably pretty embarrassed...

Climate change pollution from the airline industry is massive. Each plane that takes off emits about the same amount of carbon as 3,500 cars.

If you've ever sat at an airport, there's a lot of planes coming and going and you start to get the idea of just...

A new report out today finds that environmental infractions by companies in the Alberta oil sands are addressed with an enforcement action far less often than similar infractions reported to the United State's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The report [pdf], authored by the environmental non-profit Global...

The Sumatran tiger is awesome. One of the most beautiful creatures in the world, and there are less than 400 left in the wild.

To give you an idea of how fast this creature is being wiped out, I remember only a couple of years ago writing...

Citizens and community leaders converging this weekend in Northern Alberta for the annual "Tar Sands Healing Walk" will likely be quite happy with news that another major European financial institution is dropping their investments in Canada's tar sands. 

Norwegian financial services giant, Storebrand, issued an update saying that...

President Obama's climate action announcement yesterday relies heavily on carbon capture and storage technology eventually paying off as a commercially viable option. But carbon capture and storage (or CCS) continues to be more of a dream than reality. And a very expensive dream at that.

According to a database...

The core talking points for the supporters of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline center around U.S. domestic energy security and economic growth. However, Keystone is an "export pipeline" that will take tar sands oil from Alberta and pump it down to a tax-free zone in Texas and out to foreign markets.

Some of United Airline's most valuable and loyal customers are calling out the company today over its prolonged fight to stop new regulations aimed at reducing global climate pollution emissions from the airline industry.

And these aren't your everyday frequent fliers we're talking about: twenty are members of

Google, the search giant with the famous motto: “Don’t be evil,” is boasting about its involvement in a 2012 coal industry lobbying effort to block the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ability to protect the public from dangerous and potentially lethal coal plant emissions, according to a recently discovered...

Even with BC Premier Christy Clark's government firmly rejecting tar sand giant Enbridge's proposed northern gateway pipeline project, there is still an outside chance that Prime Minister Stephen Harper could try and ram the project through.

In its official response [pdf] to the joint review...

The B.C. provincial government has been throwing around some big numbers and promises with the planned expansion of natural gas operations, but one large number missing in the discussion is the millions of tonnes of heat-trapping methane gas they are not reporting in official government documents.

According to...

In 2011, Canadian artist Franke James set out on a solo European art exhibit spanning 20 countries. But what happened instead, prompted an Amnesty International campaigner in Croatia to declare it a "sad day for Canadian democracy."

Franke James's art show was cancelled after the NGO organizing the event,

Pardon my french, but Canada's tar sands suck.

As a Canadian it blows my mind that we can have the second largest deposits of oil in the world, but our government remains billions in debt and one in seven Canadian children live in poverty.

I feel like we...

Gerry Protti, Alberta's new overseer of environment and safety in the province's oilpatch, has been central to a network of oil industry front groups and lobbyists for many years and it is raising the eyebrows of more than a few people.

Protti was recently named as the new head of...

Clark and the BC Liberals have spent the last few days arguing that because NDP leader Adrian Dix is against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan oil pipeline in the port of Vancouver he is "anti-development" and "anti-business."

Broad sweeping attacks based on a singular position are the...

Despite an international agreement to reduce emissions from carbon-intensive sources, oil and coal companies continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars a year into finding new fossil fuel deposits containing enough carbon to more than double global climate pollution emissions.

This is the conclusion of a new report...

With the third largest proven reserves of oil in the world, and limited means of shipping that oil to foreign markets, the implications of the B.C. election now reach well beyond provincial borders. 

Which party wins could seal the fate of two major pipeline projects proposed for the west coast of...

Cries from BC Liberal party opponents about 12 years of power in British Columbia being long enough really got me thinking.

Having served under Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals when they were elected 12 years ago, first makes me think about how damn old I'm getting. Next,...