Keith Halliday

Nov 19, 2023 | yukon-news.com | Keith Halliday

The paradox of what happens when an irresistible force hits an immovable object has fascinated philosophers for millenia. We have engineered a new example here in the Yukon: what happens when our relentlessly growing need for renewable power hits the solid, multi-layered mass of Yukon governance? Our growing need for renewable power is well known. Our population grew a stonking 2.7 per cent last year. New houses are predominantly electrically heated.

Nov 12, 2023 | yukon-news.com | Keith Halliday

Being out on a Yukon trapline is a wonderful antidote to the stresses of modern life. There’s no traffic. Social media can’t find you. Mortgage bills rest safely unread. Trappers seldom start their day with an 8 a.m. Zoom standup where the boss has been watching too many Youtube videos on agile scrum methodology. But the world is, as pundits keep telling us, interconnected.

Nov 5, 2023 | yukon-news.com | Keith Halliday

We are now in Year 5 of the City of Whitehorse’s climate emergency, declared by Whitehorse city council in September 2019. The city’s latest move in the battle is hiring consultants to develop its Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan, to be presented to city council next May. So what is Whitehorse’s carbon footprint? Canada has limited up-to-date city-level reporting, but Whitehorse is 70 per cent of the Yukon’s population.

Oct 29, 2023 | yukon-news.com | Keith Halliday

To you, that egg on your plate may be just a simple and nutritious pleasure. To the egg industry, however, it represents big bucks. Some in the Yukon industry are proposing that the Yukon set up its own egg producer regulations, known as “supply management,” like in the provinces and the Northwest Territories. You can expect a vociferous debate about this. Industry advocates point to Canada’s system as successfully delivering safe, high-quality and Canadian eggs at stable prices.

Oct 22, 2023 | yukon-news.com | Keith Halliday

If you look up at the new windmills on top of Haeckel Hill, you don’t just get a view of the Yukon mountainscape juxtaposed with high-tech engineering. You also get a glimpse of the future of the Yukon economy. The four modern turbines are owned by Eagle Hill Energy, which is 100 per cent owned by the Kwanlin Dün First Nation’s development corporation. They are not partly owned by the First Nation.