Publications

FR- Over the years, Sierra Club of Canada has posted many of its publications to the web in both html and pdf formats. If a publication isn't listed here, it may be available in a print version. Contact us at info@sierraclub.ca if you can't find what you're looking for.

2003-12-16   |   View this publication   |   Sydney Tar Ponds
Executive Summary Timothy W. Lambert PhD. MSc., Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary and Stephanie Lane. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, April 2003
2003-12-12   |   View this publication   |   People Trade & the Environment News Digest
Tools & Information for Activists
2003-12-12   |   View this publication   |   Nuclear Phaseout
Comments to the Documents provided for the EIA, by the Austrian Institute for Applied Ecology
2003-12-12   |   View this publication   |   Nuclear Phaseout, Nuclear Subsidies
There are 22 CANDU nuclear power reactors in Canada. As these CANDU reactors have aged, they have experienced increasing technical problems and dramatically poorer performance. SCC’s overview provides the details.
2003-12-12   |   View this publication   |   Climate Summits
Beginning with the myth that there is no scientific consensus
2003-12-12   |   View this publication   |   Climate Summits
Beginning with the myth that Canada’s economy will suffer
2003-12-12   |   View this publication   |   Climate Summits, Forests and Climate Change
There is increasing interest in meeting some portion of Canada’s Kyoto commitment through “afforestation”, or creating new forests for the purposes of sequestering carbon emissions. In particular, some are pressing for government programs to support the establishment of plantations of fast-growing species. However many experts have expressed strong skepticism about the advisability of such a scheme, citing a number of concerns
2003-12-12   |   View this publication   |   Climate Summits, Protecting Marine Areas from the Threat of Oil and Gas Development
Over the past decade, surging demand from the United States for Canadian fossil fuels has coincided with deregulation of the energy industry and increasing control of Canadian energy companies by U.S. interests. The resulting oil and gas free-for-all in Canada is causing profound environmental problems, all in the service of turning Canada into America’s gas tank.
2003-12-12   |   View this publication   |   Climate Summits
The energy-delivery system in North America is in trouble, and the harmful effects of this are being felt today in the form of health problems, environmental damage, and a system that doesn’t meet today’s needs. The Sierra Club U.S. and Sierra Club Canada have surveyed energy programs and found that each of the states and provinces in the northeast United States and Atlantic Canada has taken some useful steps that serve as examples of opportunities for all.

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