Energy

Automakers are hoping to overcome the biggest roadblock to electric vehicles sales — range anxiety among consumers — with a little help from government.

Six federal cabinet ministers launched a sweeping review of Canada’s environmental laws on Monday pledging to restore what the previous government took away.

A Canadian designed and built satellite, launching Tuesday, will allow companies and governments to track carbon pollution from coal power plants, oil sands sites, and more.

Desmog Canada decided to show the faces of those who would be affected by the construction of the Site C dam.

The "next generation" in a Star-Trek-obsessed southern Alberta community involves a solar park and art display.

A Canadian climate change denial group insists it has not received contributions from Peabody Energy, but says a number of U.S.-based environmental organizations may have.

David Suzuki says that variable renewable sources and “flexibility options” for conventional and renewable power generation are making baseload power obsolete.

"Ottawa needs to hear loud and clear that they can’t just run roughshod over aboriginal rights and title. That era has come and gone," said Squamish Chief Ian Campbell.

Oil could be facing a tipping point similar to the U.S. coal industry, which is in structural decline, writes Hamish Stewart.

The prime minister kept quiet about whether his government would finally permit cross-examination in National Energy Board hearings for pipeline projects.

A Canadian climate change denial group was owed money by the largest private-sector coal company in the world, according to documents filed in the bankruptcy of U.S.-based Peabody Energy.

The National Energy Board moved to calm the waters of Canada's pipeline debate as it laid the framework for its review of a major cross-country project called Energy East.

On the same day that President Barack Obama rejected TransCanada Corp’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a Canadian crown corporation threw the Calgary-based energy company a financial lifeline.

Canada's clean tech investment dropped 15 per cent in 2015 — down $2 billion from 2014 — most drastically in Alberta where government spending decreased by 89 per cent.