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Chris Turner

Chris Turner is the author of The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands. He is based in Calgary.
A globe sitting in a white puddle.
Environment / November 2019 / The O'Hagan Essay on Public Affairs

We’re Doomed. Now What?

November 4, 2019December 8, 2020 - by Chris Turner

An optimist’s guide to the climate crisis

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Photograph by Kris Krüg
Books

The Best Way to Combat Climate Change is Compromise

September 19, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Chris Turner

We’ve turned the oil industry into an ideological war zone—and that is why both sides are losing

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Courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey
Environment

Fort McMurray is a humanitarian disaster

May 20, 2016December 7, 2020 - by Chris Turner

It’s sadly ironic that the city had to empty out in an emergency for the rest of Canada to come to properly understand it.

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Vancouver Skyline
Environment

Salvation or Menace

March 7, 2016March 10, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Pipelines hung like a dark cloud over the Globe 2016 conference, but the issue should go more than two ways

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Photograph courtesy of the Province of British Columbia
Environment

Carbon Copies

March 4, 2016July 17, 2019 - by Chris Turner

Why those who work on climate change full-time are more optimistic than the Ottawa press about the provinces’ new climate deal

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Photograph courtesy of the Province of British Columbia
Environment

Climate’s Prom

March 3, 2016October 23, 2019 - by Chris Turner

At this year’s Globe sustainability conference, Trudeau brings a new energy

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Illustration of a labyrinth
Feature / November 2015

Tilting at Windmills

November 14, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Canada’s most ambitious green energy plan failed—but not for the reason everybody thinks

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Photograph from Catherine McKenna’s Twitter feed
Politics

The Climate Change Cabinet

November 5, 2015September 24, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Reality comes to the environment file

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Environment

Do Alberta’s Oil Sands Figure Into a Sustainable Future?

November 2, 2015November 26, 2019 - by Chris Turner

The future will look like the current mess

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Photograph by jgsprenger
Sports

The Journeyman

October 27, 2015August 21, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Chris Colabello kept fouling off baseball’s bad breaks until he got a pitch he could hit

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