NEXT WEEK: Webinar with Sonya Savage, KC High Stakes for Low Carbon: How do we take carbon contracts for difference to the next level? 📅 Mar 7, 2024 at 12pm (MT) / 2pm (ET) REGISTER NOW➡️ zoom.us/webinar/regist… LEARN MORE➡️ cleanprosperity.ca/events/high-st… Sonya Savage, KC

Grinding up basalt rock & distributing it over agricultural land is the most exciting carbon-removal tech yet, mainly because a) the infrastructure is already set up, b) it produces value outside carbon removal, & c) the potential scale is enormous. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

THIS WEEK: Webinar with Sonya Savage, KC High Stakes for Low Carbon: How do we take carbon contracts for difference to the next level? 📅 Mar 7, 2024 at 12pm (MT) / 2pm (ET) REGISTER NOW ➡️ zoom.us/webinar/regist… LEARN MORE ➡️ cleanprosperity.ca/events/high-st… Sonya Savage, KC

Alberta has the subsurface expertise to be a national leader in geothermal energy. Geothermal is a largely untapped energy resource that could be an important asset for Alberta's low-carbon economic growth. theglobeandmail.com/business/indus…

What's the status of the federal government's carbon contracts for difference program? Our Etienne R gives an update on where things stand, and looks at transparency and eligibility barriers that the program needs to overcome. cleanprosperity.ca/carbon-contrac…

⚛️NEW: Nuclear can help Canada achieve net-zero if we solve problems with cost and policy uncertainty. A new report from Clean Prosperity recommends solutions. Read the report ⤵️ cleanprosperity.ca/nuclear-can-he… (thread 🧵)

Does nuclear power make sense across Canada? Clean Prosperity's Brendan Frank on going #NetZero by 2050, and what's standing in the way: youtu.be/Om66j1RSIBA?si… #nuclearpower #RealTalkRJ

📣 We are hiring! Provincial Manager, Saskatchewan: This new role is an opportunity to have a major impact in shaping climate and energy policy in Saskatchewan and across Canada. Learn more and apply here 👇 cleanprosperity.ca/jobs/job-openi…

An important structural shift...

Love this pair of charts—Sunbelters are using IRA tax credits to put solar on their roofs, Northerners/Midwesterners are using them to improve their insulation & efficiency.

📢 Job alert! We are hiring three climate policy research associates. The research associates will contribute to Clean Prosperity’s development of market-oriented climate policies. Learn more and apply here 👇 cleanprosperity.ca/jobs/job-openi…

50% of global gdp concentrated in these three areas

.Ben Dachis: To fix Canada’s climate policy impasse, the feds need to stay in their lane thehub.ca/2024/09/10/ben…

Clean Prosperity believes that Canada has a major opportunity in the global low-carbon economy. That's why today we are launching a series on climate policy with The Hub called Conservatives on Climate. (Thread 🧵) More 👇 thehub.ca/2024/09/13/why…

Trump: You can get the prices down Fox host: How? How would you do that? The inflation rate is already coming down Trump: You make donuts. You have the stoves. You have the this. Everything has evolved

Provinces face private-sector call to work together on industrial carbon pricing theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

NEW: Open letter from Canadian industry to provincial ministers of environment calls for 5 fixes to industrial carbon markets. "We support industrial carbon pricing as the backbone of decarbonization across this country." cleanprosperity.ca/canadian-indus… (thread 🧵)

📢 "The federal government's proposed emissions cap is the wrong policy. The new regulations couldn't arrive at a worse time." Our Western Director @adamsweet on the federal government's draft regulations to cap oil and gas emissions 👇 cleanprosperity.ca/oil-and-gas-em…

If i'm reading this right, the allocation of "O&G-specific GHG cap and trade permits" will be based on 2026-2029 firms' production levels. So firms now have a federal incentive to produce more O&G for the next 5 years to get a higher allocation. Source: canada.ca/content/dam/ec…

This is a remarkable finding, especially the latter number: 70 Mt in emissions reductions, just in Alberta! For reference, the two policies higher carbon pricing would replace, the oil and gas emissions cap and the clean electricity regulations, would each reduce emissions about