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Listening in a Time of Pandemic

The sounds of self-isolation

Feature

An Environmentalist’s Case for Beef

Why eating grass-finished cows is best for the planet

Dialogue

Should We Bail Out the Oil and Gas Industry?

Max Fawcett and Laurie Adkin respectfully disagree

On the Ledge

Should We Bail Out the Oil and Gas Industry?

Max Fawcett and Laurie Adkin respectfully disagree

On the Ledge

Context

By Chris Turner

In Pipelines

Posted January 1, 2019

Trans Mountain Pipeline: Cold Pipe, Hot Rhetoric

Have you heard about Trans Mountain? Well, of course you have. Everyone has. There’s been nothing but heated talk about the planned expansion of the pipeline system carrying bitumen and other oil [...]

By Arno Kopecky

In Climate Change, Energy / Economy, Environment

Posted July 1, 2019

Can Climate Change Be Reversed?

When NASA initiated the Mercury Project that would send the first American into space in 1958, one of the many questions facing scientists was what to do about the carbon dioxide emissions of [...]

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Eat Meat, by Brent Bereska, 2014. Edmonton.

Our Writers

Laurie Adkin

Laurie Adkin (Dialogue: “Should we bail out the oil and gas industry?”) teaches political science at the University of Alberta.

Max Fawcett

Max Fawcett (Dialogue: “Should we bail out the oil and gas industry?”) is a former editor of Alberta Oil. He worked in the Alberta government’s climate change office, 2017–2019.

Sadie Vipond

Sadie Vipond (“Defending Your Rights”) is a 14-year-old climate activist in Calgary.

Jeff Gailus

Jeff Gailus (“Alberta’s Black Swan”) is originally from Calgary but now lives in Montana. He wrote Little Black Lies: Corporate and political spin in the global war for oil (RMB, 2012).