Richard Zurawski

As we become mired in our debt and talk about increasing taxes and falling populations, we seem to be stuck in the age old perceptions that Canada is a supplier of raw materials to the world. The green technologies, the manufacture of advanced car batteries, hyperstrong magnets and blades for wind turbines are all done [...]

In our quest for energy, we have gone from pillar to post looking for a cheap, reliable, plentiful and safe alternative to fossil fuels. Among the host of problems with fossil fuels, not the least of which is their toll on the environment, we are running out of them, while our need for energy continues [...]

In less than a month, climate representative of countries from around the world will be convening in Copenhagen to try to iron out a comprehensive plan that will deal with the heating of the planet. But ye of faint heart should take no solace or comfort that Canada’s environment minister will be there representing the [...]