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A series of electricity grid alerts in Alberta during the deep freeze last week made headlines across the country, but experts say power systems all across North America are increasingly at risk of being overloaded during severe weather.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government pledged to overturn a decision from the Ontario Energy Board on the basis it would make the costs of new homes too expensive. But is that really true?

A group of scientists taught an algorithm to spot beaver ponds in satellite imagery, which has the potential to help drought-ridden areas like California bounce back.

The utility’s bid to move to "fairer" energy-based rates means some EV drivers will likely pay more and others less.

CEO pay in the oil and gas sector has soared with the industry's post-pandemic resurgence and will likely increase even more with the completion of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion this year, a new report projects.

Alberta's oil and gas producers spent nearly $700 million in 2022 on cleaning up the hundreds of thousands of old wells that dot the province, the regulator's first report on the extent of those liabilities indicates.

A planned clean energy hydrogen project in Prince George, B.C., will reduce carbon emissions at a local pulp mill and create jobs, Premier David Eby said on Tuesday.

The House of Commons ethics committee is set to meet today to discuss whether a probe should be launched over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's recent holiday vacation to Jamaica.

An investigation into false advertising by Shell Canada has been closed after the company stopped a campaign which encouraged customers to fund carbon-offset projects at the fuel pump.

Rising global temperatures – 2023 is expected to be widely confirmed as the hottest year ever recorded – are fueling droughts and other extreme weather that affect food yields, including that of sugar.

The long, troubled tenure of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party and their fumbling of the Greenbelt scandal likely led to a recent Green Party byelection win, experts say.

A councillor for a city explicitly targeted with online attacks ads by a shady group with ties to Canada's gas industry wonders why her city is in the line of fire. 

Notely ruled out taking her career to Ottawa, saying, “I have no intention to pursue a federal role in elected politics.”

The appeal is part of a number of recent youth-led cases across Canada and other parts of the world where young people argue government climate inaction in the face of increasingly dire circumstances, from wildfire to floods, is a violation of their rights.

Edmonton's Capital Power Corp. and Ontario Power Generation are joining together to assess the feasibility of developing small modular nuclear reactors to help power Alberta's electricity grid.