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Highlights<\/strong>
\u2022 Good news everywhere you look!
\u2022 Communities are making it happen
\u2022 No more payday loans, Nova Scotia Power!
\u2022 Countering disinformation about fossil fuels and renewables
\u2022 Our immediate fundraising goal is $7,700
\u2022 Why are we mining coal again in Cape Breton?
\u2022 The climate crisis is also a democracy crisis
\u2022 Introducing energy democracy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was heartening to open my inbox this week and find an email with the subject line, \u201cA bakery that doubles as a power plant.\u201d The Bloomberg Green Daily story featured a village bakery in Puerto Rico that has 51 solar panels on its roof. It\u2019s part of a local cooperative-run microgrid that\u2019s able to keep the power on when electricity supplied by the island\u2019s utility company goes down, which happens regularly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During one recent power outage, \u201ca man ran an extension cord from his solar-powered restaurant to his neighbor\u2019s oxygen machine. The owner of the ice cream parlor keeps a power strip on his porch so locals can charge their phones.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around the world, communities are advancing real solutions to meet their energy needs affordably, reliably, and with care for each other and the environment. These stories rarely make the headlines, but they should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over the past year, Sierra Club\u2019s Lindsay Lee and Oshean Juneja have been curating good news stories and posting them in a Friday roundup on our social media. If you haven\u2019t been following us, I invite you to check out our pages: Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, and TikTok<\/a>. You can also find some of our favourites on the Yes we can<\/a>! page of our Beyond Climate Promises website<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, these stories serve as an important reminder that despite the challenges and disappointments that go with dealing with governments, mining companies, and utility monopolies, regular people are doing great work behind the scenes\u2014and they\u2019re making a real difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the year draws to a close, we\u2019d like to share a few highlights of the work we\u2019ve done as part of our Beyond Coal Atlantic campaign. Please check it out below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our funding for the two-year campaign is also drawing to a close. While we hope to continue our work in the new year, much will depend on raising new funds to keep going. Our immediate fundraising goal to cover January expenses is $7,700. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re able to donate to the campaign, please click on the link below (you can indicate that you\u2019d like your donation to go to the Beyond Coal Atlantic campaign in the Comments box), or reach out to us by email: Atlantic@sierraclub.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We wish you a restful and restorative holiday season,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tynette and the Beyond Coal Atlantic team<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Look Back at 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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We took on Nova Scotia Power Inc. and its parent company, Emera Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our call to action \u2013 Tell Nova Scotia Power to stand down and listen up!<\/a> \u2013 generated more than a thousand emails to the CEOs of NSPI and Emera, denouncing their plan to kneecap the solar industry in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We presented<\/a> to the NS Utility and Review Board, calling out NSPI\u2019s payday loan scheme<\/a><\/a> for millions in deferred fuel costs, which has been costing customers dearly without their knowledge. The NS government has since passed legislation that prevents NSPI from charging above-market interest rates on deferred fuel costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We demystified renewable energy and countered disinformation about fossil fuels<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We countered the fear-mongering claims that it\u2019s not possible to transition rapidly to clean renewable electricity. Check out our webinar What if the wind doesn\u2019t blow?<\/a> with Stanford University professor Mark Jacobson, a global leader in pathways to 100 percent clean renewable energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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