Ottawa Insider

The federal carbon tax took a beating from polar opposite sides of the political spectrum this week at annual conservative and progressive conferences held just blocks from each other in Ottawa.

Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre continues to evade questions about whether he would axe the carbon pricing system for industrial emitters if he forms the next government.

Most Canadians support a crackdown on single-use plastics and less plastic production, a new poll indicates just weeks before international negotiations kick off in Ottawa on a global plastics treaty.

A giant inflatable sheep mingled with profanity-laced signs about the federal government, high food prices, inadequate housing and conspiracy theories as people gathered in Ottawa on Monday to protest the carbon price hike.

Most Canadians believe the energy transition will be challenging but necessary and want solutions to support them through it, says a new poll.

The federal government provided at least $18.5 billion to the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries last year, according to a new report by Environmental Defence.

The Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois all voted against a Conservative motion calling for a vote of non-confidence in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for refusing to call off a planned increase in the carbon price on April 1.

Construction on Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ radioactive waste disposal facility won’t jeopardize the recovery of endangered turtle and bat populations, according to the federal government.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s motion of non-confidence over the federal carbon price likely won’t topple the government, but it doesn’t have to serve the Conservative party agenda, political experts say.

The report commissioned by Wildsight, a Kootenay-based environmental organization, highlights a significant gap between the $1.9 billion the province requires Teck to set aside for emergency shutdowns and mine reclamation and the projected cost of the company’s plans to address selenium pollution from coal mining in B.C.’s Elk Valley.

The federal government is searching for a dozen young people to sit on the Environment and Climate Change Youth Council for the next two years.

Two new reports find B.C.’s old-growth forests are still on the chopping block despite claims to the contrary by the provincial government and a U.K.-based corporation.

Alberta’s new restrictions on renewable energy development could prohibit billions of investments in proposed wind and solar projects, according to a new analysis from an Alberta-based think tank.

Environmental groups want the federal government to investigate construction on an Alberta coal mine expansion for potentially violating federal law that protects endangered fish and their habitat​​​​​​​.

The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation has served the Alberta Energy Regulator’s president with a notice of a lawsuit.