Cecilia Keating
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News, US News, Energy
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December 6th 2018
The developers of a long-delayed electricity transmission project to transport hydroelectric power from Quebec to the New York City metropolitan area say that construction will start in 2020.
With environmental organizations and companies like Desjardins Group, the Alliance for a Green Economy in Quebec is calling on Canada’s first ministers to develop a more low-carbon economy as they get ready to meet today in Montreal.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he won't apologize for steps he took to "clean up the mess" at Hydro One despite a stunning assessment by a Washington state regulator that there was too much political interference to allow a merger with U.S. energy company Avista Corp.
The First Nations leader who received an apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tuesday for failed Trans Mountain pipeline consultations says he won’t accept the apology until Trudeau visits his community.
Indigenomics Institute founder Carol Anne Hilton released a plan Thursday at the Assembly of First Nations meetings in Ottawa for a new agenda for Indigenous economies, partnerships and investments in areas of business, industry and private sectors.
When COP24 comes to an end next week, the icon of the climate talks may not be coal, Arnold Schwarzenegger, or even the ever-present risk of total climate catastrophe. Rather, its symbol could end up being a 15-year-old with long blond pigtails.
“Gender and climate are inextricably linked,” said environmentalist and author Katharine Wilkinson on stage at TEDWomen last week, a gathering of women thought leaders and activists in Palm Desert, California.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says First Nations chiefs will have to wait until his platform is released to see how he differs from former prime minister Stephen Harper.
Fourteen beams of light shone into the night sky from Montreal's Mount Royal on Thursday, December 6, 2018, evening in memory of the 14 women who died at the Ecole Polytechnique engineering school 29 years ago.
New court documents have sketched out the Crown's case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, alleging the suspended military officer tried to undermine and influence the federal cabinet's decision-making on a shipbuilding project for more than a year by leaking government secrets.
By the time he wraps up his day-long talk fest with provincial and territorial leaders, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may well rue the day he promised to hold first ministers' meetings annually.
