Our Best Shot at Meeting Paris Goals? Make Energy Public

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via wsws.org (http://www.wsws.org)

The decision is a minor setback for an administration charging ahead with environmental deregulation

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With the climate talks in Paris now over, the world has set itself a serious goal: limit temperature rise to 1.5C. Or failing that, 2C. Hitting those targets is absolutely necessary: even the one-degree rise that we've already seen is wreaking havoc on everything from ice caps to ocean chemistry.


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Mayors across the country have vowed to deliver on the goals of the Paris climate accord in defiance of President Trump's decision to back out. But how can they, realistically, when the national government is questioning climate science and promoting coal, fracking, and pipelines?


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http://socialistproject.ca/bullet/b1446.jpgWe are in an emergency situation in the Anthropocene epoch in which the disruption of the Earth system, particularly the climate, is threatening the planet as a place of human habitation. However, our political-economic system, capitalism, is geared primarily to the accumulation of capital, which prevents us from addressing this enormous challenge and accelerates the destruction.

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Romain Felli - University of Lausanne.


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Sixteen months ago, the coal-fired Huntley Generating Station, which sits on the banks of the Niagara River, stopped producing power for first time since World War I.


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Ontario taxpayers will soon be part-owners of one of the biggest coal-fired power plants in America west of the Mississippi River, making money off pollution in the U.S. Northwest that would be illegal to emit at home.


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On December 2, 2010, the Ontario government promised that a new wind turbine plant in Tillsonburg would deliver 900 jobs to the southwestern Ontario region. The government release said that the plant was part of a $7-billion investment made by Samsung to invest in clean energy. Siemens would build the plant.


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My January and April posts on the Ontario electricity sector described how decisions by different Ontario governments gave rise to excess electricity generation with an inflated cost structure, leading to higher electricity prices.


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British Columbia's new NDP government will continue support for the development of a liquefied natural gas sector, despite its past criticisms of the former Liberal government's aggressive pursuit of the industry.


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