Prof. Werner Antweiler, Ph.D.
Werner's Blog — Opinion, Analysis, Commentary
Blog Entries: Environment
- What would the end of consumer-side carbon pricing mean for climate action in Canada? (16 Sep 24)
- What will another year of drought conditions mean for electricity supply in BC? (18 May 24)
- The social cost of bitcoin mining in BC (8 Feb 24)
- Taking stock of Canada's GHG Emissions at the start of COP28 (30 Nov 23)
- EV adoption rates across Canada (25 Nov 23)
- EV adoption around the world and BC's evolving ZEV laws (13 Oct 23)
- BC has made it easier for stratas to install EV chargers (8 Oct 23)
- Is Quebec becoming a climate action laggard? (12 Dec 22)
- Where in the United States is driving an electric vehicle environmentally beneficial? (21 Nov 21)
- Electricity generation country profiles (21 Oct 21)
- Will green aviation be powered by hydrogen? (20 May 21)
- The GHG footprint of Alberta's oil sands is growing alarmingly (11 Apr 21)
- How much is climate change making Vancouver warmer, and does our electricity grid need to become more resilient to adapt? (18 Feb 21)
- Canada's carbon pricing is continuing on the right track (14 Dec 20)
- What role does hydrogen have in the future of electric mobility? (28 Sep 20)
- Plastic straw bans spur innovation and a quest for eco-friendly alternatives (17 Feb 20)
- Canada's rising gasoline demand and the need for more e-mobility (2 Feb 20)
- Ecolabel erosion: when energy labels grow stale (31 Jul 19)
- Marine plastic debris and the ban of single-use plastics (22 Jun 19)
- Will Saharan solar power come to Europe at last? (30 May 19)
- Fuel Efficiency and Your Driving Style (27 May 19)
- Bitcoins gobble up too much electricity (7 Dec 18)
- The federal carbon pricing backstop becomes a carbon dividend (23 Oct 18)
- Are electric vehicles always cleaner? (4 Sep 17)
- Volvo goes electric—will other carmakers follow? (15 Jul 17)
- Say goodbye to plastic shopping bags (18 Mar 17)
- How can climate policy succeed without US leadership? (20 Dec 16)
- In support of Washington State's Initiative 732 (6 Nov 16)
- No ban of the internal combustion engine in Germany by 2030 (4 Nov 16)
- Will methane cracking give natural gas an extended lease on life? (30 Oct 16)
- Trouble looming for Quebec's emission permit system (19 Oct 16)
- The extensive margin of pollution abatement (15 Sep 16)
- How to design carbon pricing for energy-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) industries (17 Jun 16)
- Carbon emissions per capita ranking (1 May 16)
- Carbon dioxide taken out of thin air (13 Nov 15)
- Seawater desalination: technology to quench the world's growing thirst for water (1 Sep 15)
- Canada's improvident water consumption (4 Aug 15)
- Are Canada's carbon emission reduction targets realistic? (5 Jul 15)
- Is BC's carbon tax salient? (15 Jun 15)
- Fossil fuels and declining oxygen in our atmosphere (1 Jun 15)
- Ontario joins Quebec and California in carbon trading (18 May 15)
- Coal mining and selenium (7 Feb 15)
- Fossil-fuel divestment at UBC: feat or folly? (1 Feb 15)
- Smart water metering (2 Nov 14)
- Clean energy and the Site C Dam (16 Oct 14)
- The trouble with tailings ponds (2 Sep 14)
- Lessons from the Mount Polley mine tailings spill (8 Aug 14)
- Getting Energy Prices Right (31 Jul 14)
- Farewell to Australia's carbon tax (24 Jul 14)
Recent Blog Entries
- Canada's Electricity Trade with the United States (March 15)
- Value-added taxes are not tariffs (March 4)
- A closer look at Germany's 2025 federal election (March 2)
- Trade deficits are not subsidies (February 27)
- Electric vehicle adoption in Germany (February 19)
- Export surcharges as effective retaliation in a trade war (January 20)
- How is the expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline being utilized? (31 Dec 24)
- How BC Hydro incentivizes independent power producers (16 Dec 24)
- British Columbia gets more power (9 Dec 24)
- Coffee is getting more expensive (28 Nov 24)
- The economics of a biofuel mandate (10 Oct 24)
- What would the end of consumer-side carbon pricing mean for climate action in Canada? (16 Sep 24)
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