The Foreseeable Fall of Fossil Fuels (Ep. 10)

By Justin Brake ● berrygrounds podcast, Podcasts ● September 18, 2023

With Bay du Nord on hold, Newfoundland & Labrador is at a critical juncture on energy policy and climate change.

Despite the grim outlook for oil and gas, and amid climate breakdown, the Andrew Furey government continues to champion fossil fuel development.

As an investigation by The Independent unearthed, the Liberals have also quietly adopted an energy transition policy developed by consulting firm that seeks to prolong the life of the fossil fuel industry. We speak with author and climate/energy policy researcher Angela Carter, Conor Curtis of the Sierra Club Canada, and listen to a speech from the Sept. 15 student-led climate march in St. John’s organized by Fridays for Future.

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Songs Corrupted, One With Everything, and Against Time courtesy Shane Ivers of Silverman Sound Studios.

Author

Justin Brake

Justin Brake (settler, he/him) is a reporter and editor at The Independent, a role in which he previously served from 2012 to 2017. In recent years, he has worked as a contributing editor at The Breach and as a reporter and executive producer with APTN News. In 2017, Justin was criminally charged for reporting from the Indigenous-led occupation of Muskrat Falls. Those charges were dropped following a landmark 2019 ruling from Newfoundland and Labrador’s Court of Appeal that affirmed journalists’ special role in covering Indigenous protest and established a legal precedent prohibiting the arbitrary use of court injunctions against journalists. Justin was born in Gander and raised in Saskatchewan and Ontario. He returned home in 2007 to study at Memorial University and now lives with his partner and children in Benoit’s Cove, Bay of Islands.

Author

Justin Brake

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