Canada's Climate Daily

Global shipping industry says it wants to carbon-tax itself to fund decarbonization

Industry group says a levy on fuel consumption could subsidize development of zero-carbon vessels, but an analyst at the David Suzuki Foundations says the idea is "too little too late."

Climate crisis looms large in Canada’s top weather stories of 2019

“Climate change is like the weather on steroids,” Environment Canada climatologist David Phillips said.

SNC-Lavalin pleads guilty to fraud in Libya deal

Montreal-based engineering and construction company SNC-Lavalin cops to fraud, ducks corruption charge in Libya deal.

For Hydro-Québec, selling to the United States means reinventing itself

Hydro Quebec wants to sell more power to Americans. But that means making changes at home.

Ottawa and Indigenous groups disagree on fairness of pipeline consultation

Lawyers for the Canadian government say it conducted a new round of consultations with Indigenous groups about the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that was reasonable, adequate and fair.

Indigenous leaders meet with banks to discourage investment in Arctic energy

First Nations leaders from Yukon are meeting with bankers in Toronto this week to try to persuade them not to invest in energy development on the range of a vital caribou herd.

Converting coal plants to biomass would decimate forests, scientists warn

Experts horrified at large-scale forest removal to meet wood pellet demand

Bomb threat called into Tides Canada an extension of political theatre