Andrew Nikiforuk, writing today in the Globe and Mail, offers this analysis on the Alberta government’s abdication of responsibility when it comes to managing its tar sandsย bounty.
Thanks to Mr. Stelmach’s baby-steps approach to carbon pollution, the world’s largest energy project will continue to be the country’s largest growing source of ice-melting and water-evaporating gases for years to come.โ
Emails obtained by DeSmog show county officials continually met privately with Project Sail lobbyists, something denied to local residents opposing the $17 billion data center.
As Trump pushes to slash the EPAโs budget to its lowest level in four decades, 15 years of state-level cuts have already hollowed out environmental enforcement across the country.
Utilities started reversing coal powerโs โirreversibleโ decline. Will it last?
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.
