Summer 2015

From eyesore to emission-free electricity

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″] [mk_dropcaps style=”simple-style”]W[/mk_dropcaps]HEN THE SUBJECT of our collective energy future arises, the conversation invariably includes the role renewables will play in our future mix. Indeed, targets for the inclusion of solar, wind and biomass feature prominently in energy-strategy statements from governments at all levels and from around the world. Falling prices …

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Don’t let their size fool you

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″] [mk_dropcaps style=”simple-style”]R[/mk_dropcaps]EDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS is a central theme in modern energy policy. But our energy production and consumption processes, a major source of greenhouse gases, are too complex and too integrated into our social and economic health to simply be replaced. Thus, the challenge is to decrease the overall footprint, …

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The Next National Dream

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″] [mk_dropcaps style=”simple-style”]W[/mk_dropcaps]HEN CANADA’S 13 provincial and territorial premiers announced last August that they would finalize a Canadian Energy Strategy in advance of their 2015 annual Council of the Federation conference this summer, they had no way of knowing how much the Canadian energy landscape would change in the interim. [/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”25″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column …

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The Energy Map

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″] [mk_dropcaps style=”simple-style”]T[/mk_dropcaps]HE ENERGY NETWORKS that enable modern life are extensive and deeply interconnected. The map presented here — showing how Canada and the United States are linked when it comes to the distribution of oil, gas and electricity — makes that abundantly clear. Energy knows no borders when it comes to …

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Insight

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][mk_image src=”https://energy-exchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/image001.jpg” image_width=”800″ image_height=”350″ crop=”false” lightbox=”true” frame_style=”simple” target=”_self” caption_location=”outside-image” align=”left” margin_bottom=”10″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″] Jean Charest on the world’s new energy environment and his vision of Canada’s emerging opportunities as an energy nation Jean Charest is best known across Canada as a cabinet minister and party leader for the federal Conservatives and, as a Liberal, …

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Give ’em something to talk about

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″] [mk_dropcaps style=”simple-style”]F[/mk_dropcaps]OR THE PAST 20 YEARS, we have witnessed the rise of policies and initiatives worldwide focused on our energy future. They include policies to promote energy efficiency, increase the use of renewables and decrease the levels of greenhouse gases we emit as societies. The hoped-for results of these efforts …

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Energy is only part of the picture

[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″] [mk_dropcaps style=”simple-style”]A[/mk_dropcaps]mong the countries making headlines as champions of renewable energy, the United Arab Emirates is perhaps one of the more surprising. Flush with oil wealth, it would strike many as having little cause to dabble in solar and wind farms. Yet the UAE has become a hotbed of renewables …

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Feedback

[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″] The role of renewables Your winter 2015 Energy Exchange, which came with my Canadian Geographic magazine, gives the impression that you have adopted an oil industry perspective on energy. The article “System overhaul,” describing the work of professor Arnulf Grübler, has an artist’s conception graph of “grand transitions in global …

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Global Change, Global Opportunity

Global change, global opportunity

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”true” align=”left” margin_bottom=”0″] [mk_dropcaps style=”simple-style”]M[/mk_dropcaps]ORE THAN 75 PER CENT of people across Canada share an opinion that we can build our energy sector while protecting the environment. This is according to a new national survey by Nanos Research, commissioned for the University of Ottawa’s Positive Energy Conference in March. Almost two thirds of respondents …

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