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New Report Unlocks Jobs and Climate Solutions Through Residential Retrofits
September 19 2024, 12:00 PM CST For Immediate Release (Winnipeg, Treaty One): Addressing a major gap in public conversation, a new report proposing a wide-reaching, publicly-supported retrofit program for Manitoba homes was released today from researchers at the …
Manitoba’s buildings have a massive opportunity beneath them
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 10, 2024 MANITOBA’S buildings have a massive opportunity beneath them — unused renewable energy. Incredibly, the technology exists to extract it via geothermal heating and cooling.
Critical mineral mining needs careful assessment
By Anne Lindsey, Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press February 3, 2024
Province can tackle fossil-flation with local clean energy
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press February 24, 2023 By Hannah Muhajarine,
Manitoba Hydro – the long view
US Democrat Bernie Sanders recently put forward a proposal to nationalize US electricity utilities. He sees nationalization of electricity production as a way to ensure that everyone can afford this essential service and he – and others, see …
Green New Deal Needed in Canada Too
By Hannah Muhajarine First it was 44 million, then 66 million and now 78 million tonnes of C02: every year Environment Canada increases the amount by which Canada is projected to miss its Paris Agreement target [i]. “Transitions …
Inconsistent Information For Environmental Review: Frac Sand Mining in Manitoba
By Don Sullivan Update from “What the Frack is Happening in Manitoba” Nov. 22, 2018 https://policyfix.ca/2018/11/22/what-the-frack-is-happening-in-manitoba/ The corporation proposing a major mining operation on the shores of Lake Winnipeg is not providing accurate and timely information. This is …
New Report: Social Housing With Supports – The case of WestEnd Commons
By Jess Klassen Since late 2014, twenty-six families in Winnipeg’s inner city have been living in a new, supportive social and affordable housing complex called WestEnd Commons. The innovative development was retrofitted in the 100-year-old St. Matthew’s Anglican …
Reversing the Damage: How the Federal Liberals can restore Hope on the Prairies
By Lynne Fernandez By 2013 the Conservative government had cut overall federal taxes and other revenues to the lowest rate seen in more than 70 years. Between 2011 and March 2015, 25,000 to 30,000 federal public sector positions …
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