Search Results for: Energy
July 9, 2013: The Future of Canada’s Nuclear Energy Sector — Toronto Workshop Summary Report
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...purpose of the workshop was to engage subject-matter experts from across the industry to identify the opportunities, challenges and potential long-term outlook for nuclear energy in our country. This report...
Date: Tuesday July 9, 2013
Do We Really Want to Make Canadians Poorer?
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...its 2021 outlook: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/canada-energy-future/2021/canada-energy-futures-2021.pdf p.12. ↑ https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/eric-nuttall-this-oil-party-has-just-begun. ↑ https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/weak-winds-worsened-europes-power-crunch-utilities-need-better-storage-2021-12-22/↑ Given the shortcomings of intermittent wind and solar power, the only currently available technology which can be used to cost-effectively decarbonize...
Date: Wednesday July 27, 2022
Catching the Wind
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The game-changing potential of offshore wind power in Atlantic Canada, combined with an ambitious vision to develop it as an urgent national project, could turn the region into an energy superpower.
Date: Friday October 13, 2023
How to Have it All: LNG, a green economy and reconciliation
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Federal and provincial governments, Indigenous communities and industry can leverage LNG development for a clean energy future. Here’s how
Date: Wednesday January 24, 2024
Edward Greenspon: Oil Chaos and the M.I.A. Strategy
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Whatever one’s view of the oil industry, we will all be better served by an orderly transition over the current chaos. Oil's implosion in provinces such as Newfoundland, Saskatchewan & Alberta is forcing a 30 year transition in 30 days, and PPF President & CEO Edward Greenspon says we need to be strategic in leveraging the current crisis to stimulate economic activity while addressing climate change.
Date: Thursday April 2, 2020
Premier Jason Kenney at the 2019 Peter Lougheed Awards Dinner
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On Nov. 13 in Calgary, Premier of Alberta Jason Kenney explored three forms of reconciliation for Alberta's provincial government: with Alberta’s Indigenous people, of energy growth and environmental stewardship, and of the provincial and federal fields within Canadian Confederation.
Date: Thursday November 21, 2019
A Leadership Blueprint for Canada’s High-ESG Gas
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...and perhaps nuclear facilities, and planning for the very real possibility of energy rationing. Among other things, the winter of 2022 will be remembered for stacking an energy crisis onto...
Date: Thursday August 18, 2022
The Opportunity for Indigenous Infrastructure
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Well-planned, reliable infrastructure is essential to the well-being of all communities. Despite major policy challenges, Indigenous people, companies and governments are closing the infrastructure gap by advancing successful equity infrastructure projects across the country. Canada should follow these examples.
Date: Thursday September 3, 2020
We Want Real Partnership
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In April 2020, the Energy Future Forum convened a plenary session on the critical importance of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and full Indigenous participation and ownership in Canada’s energy development. The following is a blended transcript edited for clarity and conciseness of Indigenous economic leaders Alicia Dubois, Tabatha Bull, Mark Podlasly, J.P. Gladu and Kim Baird. These leaders spoke about their vision for economic reconciliation, the challenge of access to capital and the opportunity UNDRIP presents to catalyze economic development by making real partnership a prerequisite for any project to move forward in Canada.
Date: Friday July 16, 2021
The $100 Billion Difference
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In launching its Energy Future Forum in 2019, the Public Policy Forum set out as its mission “to develop practical measures that help Canada meet or exceed our 2030 emissions...
Date: Thursday May 11, 2023
Accelerating Growth in Carbon Management: Policy Recommendations for the Federal Government
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...carbon capture “our energy and climate goals will become virtually impossible to reach.” Carbon management cannot be a reason to delay clean energy and other mitigation efforts. Rather, carbon management...
Date: Thursday March 3, 2022
Friends in Low (Carbon) Places – Task Force 1 Final Report
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This report seeks the path forward for Canada’s energy future. We examine what a low-carbon future means for R&I communities and their economic well-being, and identify strategies and policies that will put R&I communities on a path to resilient and clean economies.
Date: Thursday March 8, 2018
Two Mountains To Climb: Canada’s Twin Deficits and How to Scale Them
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Canada must come to grips not just with a massive fiscal shortfall but also consecutive deficits in our current account, a broad measure of our trading and investment relationship with the rest of the world. A government plan must be growth oriented if we are to get the twin deficits under control without resorting to the drastic measures of 25 years ago.
Date: Monday September 14, 2020
Work in Progress – Task Force 2 Final Report
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How do we prepare Canada’s workforce to lead in the global clean energy sector?
Date: Thursday March 8, 2018
Towards a 21st Century Success Story with the United States
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Relations with the United States have been challenging for Canada in recent years. It’s become clear that Canada needs to move beyond its traditional trade-of-goods narrative with the U.S. and focus on factors that will be most important for its diplomatic assets in the coming years, namely culture and technology.
Date: Thursday October 29, 2020