The combination of the Coronavirus shutdown and the KSA’s (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) attempted punishment of Russia’s oil producers and America’s shale oil frackers has shocked the Canadian oil industry profoundly. Price collapse happened in a few weeks, and no producers in Canada are profitable at the prevalent prices in the third week of April, 2020. The question in Canada is not how to respond, but how to survive, and the short-term survival options for Canadian producers are few.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020 To see Professor Nathwani answering, click here. What is happening in the global energy market? Why are we seeing oil prices below $0 per barrel? Global energy markets are in turmoil for two reasons: a dramatic drop in demand because large parts of the global economy are in a 'lockdown' and the second reason, in simple terms, is that we are in a global recession. The reason we are seeing oil…

WATERLOO, ONT.—Although the final pages on the unfolding human tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic have yet to be written, the ‘tsunami-scale’ of economic disruption has led to responses by the federal and provincial governments that the most acclaimed of futurists could not have predicted even six weeks ago. If the adage, ‘Do not let a good crisis go to waste’ has any resonance, this is the perfect opportunity to re-set and re-confingure Canada’s energy sector away from dependence on oil and gas.…

The COVID-19 pandemic has arrived in our midst. This is a historic opportunity for the oil and gas sector to transition to a low carbon energy economy. 

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Prof. Nathwani is the Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy and Executive Director of WISE

Professor Nathwani will briefly describe the global change initiative –“Affordable Energy4 Humanity’ launched at the University of Waterloo to advance sustainable solutions for most disadvantaged populations. Specifically, he will highlight the features of a project – ‘Mending Broken Lives with Clean Energy Solutions’ -  designed to serve at least 500,000 people at refugee camps in Eastern Africa and provide access to electricity, cooking, clean water and support to health and educational…

Please see the Civil Society Declaration Calling for a Critical Decade of Clean Energy Collaboration here.

And the press release here:  http://energyforhumanity.org/news-events/news/news/press-release-global-civil-society-call-high-profile-nuclear-presence-cop26/

 Please watch this inspiring video address here from Bertha Dlamini, President, African Women in Energy and Power.

5 March 2020

 “In this critical decade we must expand the suite of clean energy options to include nuclear products that…

In this role, Ambika will manage the Affordable Energy for Humanity (AE4H) global change initiative, a multi-stakeholder research and action initiative at the intersection of energy research and international development. She will also manage the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship program and will support WISE’s other interdisciplinary research and programmatic objectives.

Ambika received her Bachelor of Applied Science in systems design engineering from the University of Waterloo, and her Master…

The proposal by WISE, entitled ‘Mending Broken Lives Through Clean Energy Solutions’, seeks to end the vicious cycle of poverty fed by lack of access to energy. The ambition is to accelerate the deployment of clean distributed energy solutions, on a massive scale in order to reach more than a billion people globally, who otherwise would have no access. 

The comprehensive technical plan combines reliable support of energy with community self-sufficiency and self-determination. 

Income…

Originally posted here

Almost daily, scientists release another study documenting the growing influence of human-caused global warming. Driven by ever-increasing amounts of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, mostly from coal, oil and natural gas we burn for energy, the Earth’s average surface temperature has risen by almost 1ºC since the late 19^thcentury, with much greater increases predicted ahead.

With this seemingly inexorable rise in the concentration of atmospheric…