While development has improved the lives of many aboriginals in Canada, Chief Shawn Atleo of the Assembly of First Nations says disputes over treaty rights is the result of ignorance and neglect from industry and government.
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An energy-thirsty world will need “every drop” of growing production in Canada’s oil sands, but the industry will need to reassure a skeptical public that development can be done in an environmentally sustainable way, the International Energy Agency’s chief economist says.
With countries gathering in Qatar this week for the annual United Nations climate change talks, Canada’s expanding oil sands production is again in the spotlight. Canada is routinely vilified at such meetings for being a laggard in battling global warming and for developing one of the world’s most emissions-intensive sources of crude.
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EDMONTON, AB, Nov. 22, 2012/ Troy Media/ – A Canadian Solar Industry Association report released at the Solar West trade show in Edmonton says Alberta has the “best solar resource in Canada.”
However, when you start comparing Alberta to the largest global market for solar energy technology in the world, Germany, it’s time to start scratching your head.
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