Somewhere in west Texas, amid one of the most productive oilfields in the continent, a Canadian company is building a plant that it hopes will eventually suck from the air a million tonnes of carbon being pumped out of the ground all around it.
In the last five years, Rachel Notley has gone from third-party leader, to government leader to Opposition leader, but says she will try again for Alberta's top job in 2023.
A new wave of cold water is about to hit Canada's much-buffeted oilsands industry but whether it will be a perfect storm or a tempest in a teapot is yet to be seen.
They're all ambassadors for Protect Our Winters Canada, a non-profit advocacy group based in Waterloo, Ont. It's made up of outdoor enthusiasts, professional athletes and sporting brands trying to get governments to take action on climate change.
As Canada's first stand-alone minister of northern affairs, Dan Vandal says he'll be working closely with other ministers to get things done for Canada's North.
The company behind the $6.2-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline in British Columbia says it's made a deal to sell a 65 per cent equity interest in the project, which has sparked protests and arrests.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads into 2020 promising to chart a path to Canada releasing no emissions that stay in the atmosphere within 30 years. But one of the first things his government has to decide in the new year is whether to give cabinet approval to a major new oilsands project that environment advocates say is absolutely incompatible with reaching the "net-zero" target.
The federal government was told just before the fall election campaign that many Canadians didn't believe the country will meet targets for reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions.