Energy publications

Green Decent and Public fact sheets:

• Opportunity in Crisis: Decent Green Jobs | Possibilité que présentent les crises : créer des emplois verts décents
• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Power Potential | Potentiel de l’efficacité énergétique et des énergies renouvelables
• Public and Community Ownership Examples | Exemples de propriété publique et communautaire
• Advantages of Public and Community Ownership | Avantages de la propriété publique et communautaire
• References | Références

Energy fact sheets:

• Canadian Lobbying Against the EU FQD: Getting the Facts Straight, February 2012
• Myths Versus Realities: Getting the facts about fracking
• Building the Movement for Climate Justice in Canada
• No Fracking Way! Hydraulic fracturing poses serious risks to water and health
• Leave it in the Ground: No offshore drilling in the Arctic!
• Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis
• False Solutions to the Climate Crisis
• Five reasons why Canada needs a Canadian Energy Strategy now
• Five reasons to support no new approvals in the tar sands
• Climate (of) Change: Working Towards Climate Justice and Green Jobs Factsheet  |  Handbill
• The Canadian Impacts of the Tar Sands
• Why it’s time to renegotiate NAFTA
• Five Reasons to Oppose Uranium Mining and Exploration
• Energy issues across Canada
• Where does Canada’s oil come from?
• Oil companies sue Canada

Reports and articles

• No Fracking Way: Our water, health and air at risk, Canadian Perspectives, Summer 2011

• When the Water Changed: How one family doctor is speaking out about the tar sands industry, Canadian Perspectives, Summer 2011

• The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report, May 2011. The Council of Canadians piece on Chevron in the Beaufort Sea is on page 31. (PDF 3.40MB)

• Briefing: Keep Europe Out of the Tar Sands! Published by The Council of Canadians, Friends of the Earth Europe, Indigenous Environmental Network, UK Tar Sands Network, January 2011

• Potential Impacts of the Proposed Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) on the Pace and Character of Oil Sands Development, A Legal opinion prepared by Steven Shrybman (Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP) for the Council of Canadians, and the Indigenous Environmental Network, November 2010

• Lessons to Learn from the BP Oil Spill, Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2010

• Environmental Concerns and Regulatory Initiatives Related to Hydraulic Fracturing in Shale Gas Formations: Potential Implications for North American Gas Supply, A report prepared for the Council of Canadians, October 2010

• From Copenhagen to Cochabamba to Cancun: The growing global movement for climate justice, Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2010

• Joining the Climate Justice Movement, Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2010

• Climate Change Threats Put Human Right to Water in the Spotlight, Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2010

• New Brunswick Power Not for Sale, Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2010

• Water and climate change, Maude Barlow, January 2010

• Energy Futures: Eni’s investments in tar sands and palm oil in the Congo Basin, Report co-signed by the Council of Canadians, November 9, 2009

• Green Jobs Essential for a Just and Sustainable Future, Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2009

• Council of Canadians statement on nuclear power and uranium mining, October 2008

• Turning Of the Power of Energy Integration, Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2008

• Why the Energy Gold Rush Won’t Pan Out: Canadians need a sustainable energy future, Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2008

• Council of Canadians comments on uranium mining and nuclear power, Saskatchewan UDP consultations 2009

• An Energy Gold Rush: The SPP hands control of Canada’s energy to the oil and gas industry, Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2008

• Why We Need a Canadian Energy Strategy, Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2008

• Water and the Oil Industry (PDF) March 2007

Multimedia

• Discussion guide (October 2009) will help you facilitate a lively discussion about the tar sands documentary, Dark Side of the Boom: Canada’s Mordor.

• See more multimedia here.

Other resources

• RADICAL NEW AGENDA NEEDED TO ACHIEVE CLIMATE JUSTICE - Poznan statement from the Climate Justice Now! alliance, December 12, 2008
• The Energy Sustainability Dilemma: Powering the Future in a Finite World, J. David Hughes
• COAL: Some Inconvenient Truths, J. David Hughes
• Stop the injustice: Overhaul Ontario's mining laws and policiesJoint statement on Ontario's mining act, March 17, 2008

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updated February 7, 2012