Chris Hatch

1 week ago | nationalobserver.com | Chris Hatch

There were a long few moments of icy fear as the early vote results trickled in from Atlantic Canada on Monday evening. Befuddled pundits began wondering aloud whether the pollsters had indeed been wrong and Maple MAGA would vastly outperform expectations. The next morning it became clear that a similar foreboding must have shuddered through Danielle Smith's watch party. Viewed from beyond the Prairies, the argument is breathtakingly audacious. Oil and gas production is at an all-time high.

2 weeks ago | nationalobserver.com | Chris Hatch

The most sensible intervention of the federal election campaign came not from the federal leaders but a more humble layer of government: mayors and councillors from across the country banded together urging the federal parties to get their "elbows up for climate." One of the most poignant signatures to the open letter was Richard Ireland, the mayor of Jasper. Just nine months ago, an inferno roared into the beloved townsite in the Rockies.

1 month ago | nationalobserver.com | Chris Hatch

Amid the deluge of Trumpacies battering us from moment to moment, it would have been easy to miss one of the Trumpiest of the Trump administration's Trumpanacians. This week, it stripped funding to researchers at Princeton University because their findings are "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety.'" Among the scenarios are those produced by Princeton meteorologist Syukuro Manabe - which were deemed good enough for the 2021 Nobel Prize in physics.

1 month ago | nationalobserver.com | Chris Hatch

It's a relief to come across any trend toward safety and sanity these days, especially a sharp and sustained trend. So, let's take a little mental health break and look at the latest update on climate pollution out of the U.K. The U.K.'s planet-heating emissions are now the lowest since 1872. That's not a typo - we're looking back to a time when Queen Victoria was on the throne, in the place where coal furnaces had fired the industrial revolution.

2 months ago | nationalobserver.com | Rochelle Baker |Chris Hatch |John Woodside |Rory White

B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is pitching new laws targeting provincial environmental groups as part of his party’s strategy to combat U.S. tariff threats. Flanked by billboards reading “US millionaires are funding the destruction of B.C. economy” at a press conference Monday, Rustad argued the province needs legislation to ban B.C.-based environmental groups from receiving any U.S. funding for climate campaigns against oil and gas companies.