Everything to know about the April 8 eclipse in Atlantic Canada | SaltWire #eclipse | SaltWireOpen letter to the N.L. Minister for Environment and Climate Change, Bernard Davis: We appreciate that you’ve been put in an impossible position. Soon you’ll be announcing your decision on the amendment to the Environmental Statement by World Energy GH2.
These mega projects have nothing to do with addressing climate change – they are about subsidy harvesting, a strategy where environmentally disinclined corporations hunt staggering amounts of public funds via ‘investment tax credits’. The proponents of some of these developments have very unsavoury professional histories and it would be naive to believe any of them are in this because they want to help mitigate the effects of climate change.
Even the Canadian Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development recently reported that optimism bias has caused Natural Resources Canada to overestimate hydrogen's potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We remind readers that 80 per cent of all energy inputs will be lost when exporting ‘green’ hydrogen to distant markets.