Province’s New Climate ‘Action Plan’ Is Deeply Insufficient

by Climate Action Team Manitoba | Sep 10, 2026 | Climate Action Plans, Position Statement

Nearly a year after its Path to Net Zero, the Manitoba government has finally released its first three-year Action Plan. Unfortunately, it lacks the detail and specificity needed to ensure meaningful and measurable GHG reductions. It fails to provide specific...

Exporting LNG Through Churchill Would Be A Climate Disaster

by Climate Action Team Manitoba | May 20, 2026 | In The News, Policy, Publications

Image credit: JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Key Points Prime Minister Mark Carney and Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew are pushing to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Churchill by 2030. LNG is extremely high-emitting due to a combination of...

What is 50-50 Transit Funding—And How Much Might it Cost the Province?

by Climate Action Team Manitoba | Apr 13, 2026 | In The News, Policy, Publications

There’s been a lot of talk about the need for the Province to restore the 50-50 transit funding agreement. But what does this raffle-sounding policy actually mean? And how much might it cost the Province? The 50-50 funding agreement was a partnership between the...

Focusing on an affordable clean energy future

by Bethany Daman | Apr 3, 2025 | In The News, Policy, Road to Resilience

By Laura Cameron Last month’s provincial budget included $3.7 billion in capital investments for building much-needed infrastructure and stimulating economic development to combat the impacts of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. This big infrastructure spending...

Will the Manitoba energy strategy include geothermal?

by Climate Action Team Manitoba | Sep 10, 2024 | Green Jobs, Policy, Road to Resilience

By Laura Tyler and Bethany Daman  — Manitoba’s buildings have a massive opportunity beneath them — unused renewable energy. Incredibly, the technology exists to extract it via geothermal heating and cooling. Through geothermal systems, building owners and...

Half-measures not good enough

by Climate Action Team Manitoba | May 18, 2024 | Human Impacts, Policy, Road to Resilience

By Andrea Pelletier and Bethany Daman Emissions data for Manitoba were just released via the National Inventory Report, once again highlighting the reality that our province is falling behind in the global race to net zero. Manitoba and Alberta are the only Canadian...