Following Ottawa’s Canada Day floods, Stephen Hazell urges Ottawans to use this fall’s municipal election to demand improvements to Ottawa’s flood response and management, in this Glebe Report opinion piece.

In his newest opinion piece for The Energy Mix, Stephen Hazell examines the serious concerns surrounding the Major Projects Office and degraded impact assessment, and proposes adapting corporate risk assessment practices and incorporating them into public reviews of proposed major projects.

All levels of government must work cooperatively to enact the laws and policies needed to achieve net-zero emissions. A vigorous defence of the federal Impact Assessment Act at Alberta Court of Appeal hearings this month would be a start.

Once again, Nature Canada is intervening to protect nature at Alberta Court of Appeal hearings, now scheduled for February.

On behalf of the Citizen Climate Counsel (C3), Stephen Hazell has submitted a letter to Ottawa’s Mayor and Council outlining three key recommendations to address the climate emergency in the 2026 draft budget.

Stephen Hazell responds to a recent Globe and Mail opinion piece on Budget 2025.