Analysis

Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the government will buy the existing Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan at a price of $4.5 billion. He refused to explain that $4.5 billion simply buys Ottawa the rights to what exists today — a 65 year old pipeline

Kinder Morgan’s self-imposed May 31 deadline to achieve political certainty for building the Trans Mountain project is rapidly approaching. What are the possible outcomes?

Our overheating planet just reached another staggering — maybe even astronomical — new milestone.

In a recent article, a team led by Dr. Leslie Field was up in Alaska spreading sand on a frozen lake. The researchers are hoping to find a way to stop sea ice from melting. Could this actually work?

Investigative news site The Lens reports that two men hired local actors to attend New Orleans City Council meetings in October and February. Participants were paid $60 to show up, clap for anti-renewable energy comments, and wear T-shirts in support of a new power plant. They were paid extra cash to read a speech.

"The question remains: can [La Presse] have their cake and eat it too? Can they be both a non-profit and continue to behave like they’re competing for ad dollars? It’s uncharted territory and as a scholar and observer, I think it’s fascinating and exciting to see this being tried." - Colette Brin, Director at the Centre d'études sur les medias.

With warm weather, a high snowpack and floodwaters rising throughout the province, it may seem like B.C. is set to repeat last year’s weather patterns, which led to a catastrophic summer of fires.

She's positioned to make a big difference. And she is. Here are a few of the ways.

The last time atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were this high, millions of years ago, the planet was very different. For one, humans didn’t exist.

If the case launched by First Nations is reopened or appealed, here is a sample of some of the relevant evidence released through access to information legislation and other public information gathered by National Observer over the past two years.

Government insiders say a high-ranking public servant instructed them, at least one month before Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion was approved, “to give cabinet a legally-sound basis to say ‘yes’” to the project. Here are the results of a National Observer investigation that was more than a year in the making.

An industry ad to amplify pro-pipeline perspectives is just one example of how the online conversation around the troubled Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion is, increasingly, being pushed to its edges by actors on both sides of the debate. Casual opinion polls and social media platforms are open battlegrounds as messages spread quickly and debate become increasingly polarized.

“Why do I claim that Mr. Pruitt is lying, rather than just deluded?” asked Justin Gillis in a 1,000-word New York Times op-ed eviscerating Scott Pruitt.

Taking expensive first-class flights, doling out pay raises from a clean water law, renting a condo from an energy lobbyist’s wife: These are just a few of the scandals that have recently dogged EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.

Canada’s proposed climate plan doesn’t even get halfway to its target because of problems with international offsets. The resulting emissions gap is twice as big as advertised.