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.
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.
Saskatchewan's environment minister says he's disappointed but not surprised that the federal government is reducing carbon tax rebates for the province's residents in the new year.
“I’ve been attending these climate negotiations since they first started in 1991, but never have I seen the almost total disconnection we’ve seen here."
Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says he is "very interested in the discussions around how technology can enable us not simply to address emissions-intensity-related issues, but to help us think about how we might extract energy without pollution."
In a courtroom in British Columbia on Monday, December 17, 2019, Indigenous communities were arguing the federal government overstepped in approving the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and that it has to be stopped over concerns about its impact on the environment.
Renewable energy is competing in ways that few imagined. In India renewables are cheaper than coal — something which will have a huge impact on climate change.
It’s been more than a dozen years since the metaphorical alarm was first sounded, and yet the residents of Fort Chipewyan still don’t know what’s killing them. But what they do know is that there are still elevated rates of cancer in the northern Alberta community.
Federal New Democrats are asking the Liberal government to commit to regular reviews of the new North American free-trade deal's impact on Canada after it comes into force and to overhaul the way future trade pacts are negotiated.
A green economy think tank at the University of Ottawa says the federal government's promise to plant two billion trees over the next 10 years is a cheap way to pull greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.
“This decision directly harms business and private investment in our city, said Keanin Loomis, the president and CEO of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce.