The Texas power grid – famous for failing when it is most needed – has come through weeks of record 100-degree days like a champ. Its performance could provide a model for the rest of the United States on what energy transformation can look like.
Lifestyles and the economy have been growing ever more electrified. As climate change amplifies extremes of weather, a storm’s fallout in Texas is a lesson in the need for resilience.
The breakneck development of natural gas in British Columbia has raised a few environmental and political objections, the majority coming from First Nations, who have been living on the business end of development in for years