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The Energy Mix 04/20/2020, brought to you by Energy Mix Productions and Smarter Shift
 
 
During the pandemic, we're still pulling together the day's top climate news, but with more emphasis on stories of community, resilience, and hope. If you like what you see, tell a friend and ask them to sign up for a free subscription. Stay safe, stay well, and keep doing what you can to #FlattenTheCurve.

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‘A Major Turning Point’: Trudeau Unveils $1.7 Billion for Abandoned Wells, Resists Fossils’ Bailout Demands
 
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled C$1.7 billion in new funding to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells and another $750 million to combat methane leakage, part of a $4-billion package for sectors affected by the coronavirus crash, while rejecting fossil industry calls to suspend climate action and regulations during the pandemic.
 
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Fossil Lobby Demands Massive Deregulation in ‘Crass Attempt to Exploit Global Pandemic’

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) called on the federal government to suspend more than 30 environmental regulations, laws, and policies in response to the coronavirus pandemic, in a 13-page letter issued March 27 and released last week by Environmental Defence.

 
 

 

Ontario Asks Court to Dismiss Youth Climate Case [Petition]

The Ontario government is asking a judge to dismiss a Charter of Rights and Freedoms case filed last November by seven youth climate litigants, claiming the matter shouldn’t be decided in court.

 
 

 

The Interview: Community Values Must Inform Post-COVID Rebuilding, Yano Says

Sherry Yano is Manager of Community Renewable Energy at the David Suzuki Foundation. She talks about the fault lines in society revealed by the COVID crisis and the values that lead to action on environment and social justice.

 
 

 
 
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Week 16, April 20: An Efficient Renewable Energy Grid

To ensure that Canada’s power utilities continue to produce reliable, dispatchable power through the transition to 100% renewable energy, we will provide $100 million in Renewable Grid Research Grants over 10 years to develop improved systems of utility power storage and grid reliability.

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COVID-19 meets The Climate Emergency. How do they relate? Guy Dauncey’s 26-Week Climate Transition Program for Canada is an off-carbon roadmap for the 2020s, for when we emerge from the pandemic. We’re publishing a different segment each week until the series is complete. Click here for our latest, here for the whole series.

 
 
 

 

Canadian Climate Campaigner Pushes Back After Attack by U.S. Fossil Association

A U.S. fossil association has launched a public attack on two climate campaign organizations in Canada, Stand.earth and Sustainabiliteens, strangely accusing one of them of working to “create roadblocks and drive up costs for oil and natural gas development in Canada’s Pacific Northwest”.

 
 

 

Canada Records 15-Megatonne Emissions Hike in 2018, Wiping Out 13 Years of Gains

Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions increased by 15 million tonnes between 2017 and 2018, driven by vehicle emissions, oil and gas extraction, and manufacturing, and essentially erasing 13 years of small reductions dating back to 2005.

 
 

 

Brazilian Deforestation Plants the Seeds for Future Pandemics

As Brazil’s current leader continues to champion the deforestation of the Amazon, experts are warning that such destruction is planting the seeds for the next uncontrolled disease outbreak, as wild animals and their attendant viral and bacterial hitchhikers increasingly cede territory to humans whose immune systems can be defenceless against such “novel” assailants.

 
 

 

Two Amazon Employees Fired After Advocating for Better Virus Protections

Two Amazon employees who risked their jobs by publicly criticizing the company’s climate credentials—and demanding better from their employer—have been fired in the wake of their equally public support for warehouse workers demanding stronger COVID-19 protections.

 
 

 

Shell Draws Praise, Pushback for 2050 Net-Zero Pledge

Royal Dutch Shell is receiving some praise and a healthy dose of pushback after unveiling plans to become a “net-zero carbon company” by 2050.

 
 

 

‘Gobsmacking’ UK Announcement Says Green Transport Must Become Citizens’ First Choice

The UK government recently declared that meeting the nation’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 will require that public transit, cycling, and other forms of active transport become “the natural first choice” for citizens—a statement that transport policy experts and active travel campaigners found happily “gobsmacking,” reports BBC News.

 
 

 

Explosion at Hydrogen Fuel Cell Plant Damages 60 Homes

A recent, massive explosion at a OneH2 hydrogen fuel cell plant in Long View, North Carolina has left the facility’s 44 employees shaken, but unscathed and 60 homes damaged, one of them beyond repair. 

 
 

 

Suspected COVID-19 Claims Climate Pioneer Sir John Houghton at Age 88

Sir John Houghton, a Welsh physicist and climate researcher who helped convince then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher that climate change is real, caused by human activity, and in need of a response, died last week of suspected COVID-19 at age 88.

 
 

 
 
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Top Headlines
12 Cases of COVID-19 Confirmed in Kearl Lake Tar Sands/Oil Sands Work Force
NS Fossil Pieridae Delays Decision on LNG Export Terminal
Virginia Governor Signs 2045 Carbon-Free Energy Mandate
Kentucky Coal Closures Produce Reduction in Hospital Admissions
Greenland Ice Sheet Records Biggest Ever Loss
 
CARBON-FREE TRANSITION
Swedish Pension Fund Quits Fossil Fuels
Oil Spill Hits Ecuadoran Amazon
100-MW Battery Will Compete with California Gas Plants
Third-Generation Biorefineries Aim to Produce Fuel, Chemicals from CO2
Meat Industry ‘Ruined’ If It Fails to Meet Climate Challenge
 
Community Resilience
Kentucky Coal Closures Produce Reduction in Hospital Admissions
Urban Farming Could Supply 122% of Sheffield, UK’s Produce
Renewables Reduce Inequalities Across Asia Pacific
New Technologies Hold Promise for Long-Duration Energy Storage
Award-Winning Low-Energy Retrofit Needn’t Be the Exception
 
Climate Crisis
Greenland Ice Sheet Records Biggest Ever Loss
Social Media Erupts After 19 Responders Die in China Wildfire
Warming Waters Mean More Fatal Ship Strikes for Whales
Oregon Campaigners Push Back on LNG Plant, Pipeline Approval
Millions at Risk as Second Wave of Locusts Swarms East Africa
 
Canada
12 Cases of COVID-19 Confirmed in Kearl Lake Tar Sands/Oil Sands Work Force
NS Fossil Pieridae Delays Decision on LNG Export Terminal
Alberta Stands By Massive Keystone Subsidy Despite U.S. Court Ruling
Squamish May Join Review of Woodfibre Work Camp
British Columbians Prepare for Flooding in Midst of Pandemic
 
U.S.
Virginia Governor Signs 2045 Carbon-Free Energy Mandate
Kansas Court Delivers Unexpected Win for Rooftop Solar
Major U.S. Pipelines Run Through Local ‘News Deserts’
Florida Chemical Plant Emits Massive Volumes of Climate Super-Pollutant
Massachusetts Pushes Grid to Use Renewables for Costly Peak Power
 
International
Investors Press Colossal Fossil Total for Faster Climate Action
South Korea Campaigners Oppose Bailout for Doosan Heavy Industries
500-MW Solar Project Wins Funding in Oman
Swedish Consortium Claims Carbon-Neutral Fuel from Hydrogen
Singapore LNG Buyer Asks Suppliers to Quantify GHG Impacts
 
 
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