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Current Energy in Alberta
Despite the evidence that the world is moving to embrace clean, renewable energy technology, our provincial government remains committed to spending billions of dollars to maintain the status quo: insisting on using dirty oil and coal, while contemplating nuclear power.
Watch this Alberta Primetime Episode, where Sheila Muxlow of Sierra Club Prairie speaks about the health and environmental problems associated with Total's proposed upgrader in the Alberta Heartland. Muxlow discusses green alternatives by building a manufacturing industry that will diversify our economy in a clean and sustainable way.
Watch the video here.
Bob Geldhof addresses his understanding on how we must work towards a sustainable future, not by waiting for our "so called leaders" to make the change, but make the change ourselves.
Berlin, 7 June 2010 – The renewable power industry could support 8.5 million jobs by 2030 (1), if governments seize the opportunity to invest in a greener future, according to one of the most comprehensive plans for future sustainable energy provision launched today by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC).
The report: ‘Energy [R]evolution: A Sustainable World Energy Outlook’(2), provides a detailed practical blueprint for cutting carbon emissions while achieving economic growth by replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy and energy efficiency. This phase-out of fossil fuels offers substantial benefits such as energy security, independence from world market fuel prices as well as the creation of millions of new green jobs. Read more »
Published May 27, 2010 by Trevor Scott Howell
Alberta is lacking green initiative and jobs, say environmentalists from Ontario and the U.S.
David Silburn, green building research associate at SAIT, says there's new green opportunities for trades. About a year ago, Alberta’s then-finance minister Iris Evans made a bold prediction while waist-deep in a global recession: Alberta, Canada’s economic engine, would shed only 15,000 jobs in 2009. And by 2010, the province’s economy would be well on its way to recovery. In the ensuing 14 months, 84,000 Albertans have lost their jobs — more than five times Evans’s optimistic prediction — many who had worked in the province’s bread-and-butter industry: oil and gas. But environmental groups say there is a solution to Alberta’s boom-bust energy economy: Renewable energy. Read more »
By Jason Fekete, Calgary Herald; Canwest News Service May 28, 2010 The Stelmach government's royalty rollback continued Thursday with a series of new oil and gas incentive programs designed to spur activity -- at an expected cost of $1.5 billion in uncollected royalties over three years.
Sick of our fossil fuel addiction? Kick It is funny, irreverent - but hard-hitting and informative video.
Here's Tom Rand - engineer, philosopher, author and venture capitalist - telling you how we can "Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit".
