Biochar is a ‘shovel-ready’ climate tech darling, but can it scale up?
The soil soot is a small-scale solution that climate advocates — and corporations — want more of.
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Environmental law court ruling won't break Canada's resolve to regulate oil, gas emissions: Guilbeault
The Liberals first promised during the 2021 election to cap emissions from the oil and gas sector and then ratchet them downward towards 2030, when Canada's next emissions target deadline hits.
Greta Thunberg among a group of activists detained at London oil protest
Thunberg was among dozens of protesters who chanted “oily money out” and sought to block access to the luxury InterContinental Hotel on Park Lane, which is hosting the Energy Intelligence Forum.
Has Canada’s Big Tobacco moment for Big Oil arrived?
Oil giant Suncor has no intention of taking responsibility for its role accelerating the climate crisis, and has no plans to change course even as the planet burns, NDP MP Charlie Angus told reporters Tuesday.
Sask. human rights commissioner resigns over pronoun bill
Former Saskatchewan human rights commissioner Heather Kuttai says she spoke with her son before she decided to resign on Monday over the province’s proposed pronoun legislation.
Opioid overdose deaths among unhoused people show steep rise: Ontario study
A new study says people experiencing homelessness make up a growing proportion of opioid overdose deaths in Ontario.
B.C. tightens short-term rental rules to create more housing
New legislation that takes aim at rapidly expanding short-term rentals in British Columbia will increase badly needed long-term rental housing, Premier David Eby said after the act was introduced in the legislature on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.
Champagne says he wishes grocers were more 'forthcoming' on price stabilization plans
Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says he wishes Canadian grocers would be more forthcoming with the public about their plans to stabilize prices.
Wave of billion-dollar oilpatch deals shows strength of Canada's energy sector
A wave of high-profile mergers and acquisitions in the Canadian oilpatch is a sign of an industry that is flush with cash and increasingly confident in the short- and medium-term outlook for fossil fuels, experts say.
Two B.C. community newspapers close up shop
Two newspapers in British Columbia are publishing their last editions this week, eliminating coverage by community papers for a large swath of the province's northeast.
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia put forward a unified front with the feds to transition off coal by 2030
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs were in Ottawa on Monday for an announcement, where Wilkinson said the federal government has finalized a joint policy statement with the two provinces.
In the past six years, extreme weather has displaced 43 million children
Floods and storms accounted for 95 per cent of recorded child displacement between 2016 and 2021, according to the first-of-its-kind analysis by UNICEF and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The rest — more than two million children — were displaced by wildfires and drought.
Debunking the case to keep fish farms open
As then fisheries minister Joyce Murray prepares to announce her plan to transition the remaining fish farms out of B.C. waters, the industry is working hard to ensure they can stay.
Advocates push for full protection of the Greenbelt
Environmental advocates caution that the Greenbelt, a vast protected region containing crucial natural areas and farmland, is still not fully safeguarded from the provincial government's construction plans.
Suncor CEO fields tough questions on climate change at federal committee
It’s no secret oilsands companies intend to ramp up production despite the rapidly worsening impacts of the climate crisis, and one longtime industry executive laid out his arguments for doing just that at a federal committee Monday.