Canada's Climate Daily

Environmental groups burning over waste incinerator expansion

Emerald Energy From Waste has revealed its intention to more than quadruple its capacity at its Brampton, Ont., facility to incinerate garbage from households and businesses.

New investments in coal, oil and gas are an existential threat

COP28 outcomes must be explicit — systems transformations to build climate resilience do not include coal, oil and gas investments.

The decade-old broken climate promise looming over COP28

New data suggest wealthy countries may belatedly be providing a promised $100 billion in climate-related aid. But they’ve eroded trust in the process.

Tax the Super Rich. Carbon Inequality Costs 1.3 Million Lives.

Danielle Smith invokes sovereignty act in green electricity fight with feds

Premier Danielle Smith said she wanted to invoke the act to send a message that her government is serious about pushing back against Ottawa’s plan to green Canada’s electricity grid by 2035, a plan she says could wreak havoc on Alberta’s natural gas-based grid.

Pathways Alliance confident $16.5B carbon capture project will happen

After last week's federal fall economic statement, however, Pathways president Kendall Dilling said the likelihood of a positive decision on the project has increased.

Suncor reports runoff spill at Fort Hills oilsands site to Alberta Energy Regulator

A spill of surface runoff from a containment pond at Suncor Energy’s Fort Hills oilsands site may have spanned more than a year, the Alberta Energy Regulator has announced.

One of world's largest icebergs drifting beyond Antarctic waters after it was grounded for 30 years

One of the world’s largest icebergs is drifting beyond Antarctic waters, after being grounded for more than three decades, according to the British Antarctic Survey.

How did humans get to the brink of crashing climate? A long push for progress and energy to fuel it

Amidst record-high temperatures, deluges, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening for another round of United Nations climate talks later this month that seek to curb the centuries-long trend of humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.