Climate Watch NL

"We are well-positioned to pivot. N.L. has some of the strongest renewable energy resources on the planet. A rapidly growing technology sector. World-class education and research facilities. The construction know-how and infrastructure at the ready. The province can leverage these competitive advantages to set us up for a future that is no longer fully reliant on a volatile resource sector. Moreover, through our experience in the oil industry, we’ve forged relationships with the very companies that are seizing the opportunities in diversifying away from fossil fuels. The door is open for collaboration." https://www.thetelegram.com//letter-time-for-oil-wind-dow/

"Expanding our offshore oil production will increase those emissions and make it harder if not impossible to meet our provincial 2030 emissions reductions target, which is why our government only speaks of net zero by 2050 these days. The greenwashing of our oil as an asset in the fight against global climate change is nothing more than a myth that helps us sleep at night. It’s time the media started challenging that myth. Heather Elliott Mark Nichols... Coalition for a Green New Deal NL" https://www.thetelegram.com//letter-oil-and-gas-myth-bus/

"An Indigenous-owned solar farm in remote northeast Alberta, branded the largest project of its kind in Canada, celebrated its grand opening this week, bringing increased renewable energy independence to a community long reliant on diesel fuel." https://www.cbc.ca//indigenous-owned-solar-farm-fort-chip-

""The same human activities that drive climate change and biodiversity loss also drive pandemic risk though their impacts on our agriculture, said Peter Daszak, president of the Ecohealth Alliance and chair of the workshop that developed the special report. COVID-19 is the sixth pandemic since the 1918 influenza outbreak that can be directly attributed to human activity, according to the panel. Five new diseases, each with the potential to become a pandemic, arrive every year." https://thehill.com//523358-un-warns-of-deadlier-pandemics

If you’re electrifying offshore platforms, you are still contributing to the oil extraction and oil and gas industry, which is still doing damage to our planet, she [Elliott] said. https://www.theguardian.pe.ca//newfoundland-and-labrador-/ #NLpoli #ClimateChange