Energy

Some of Canada's top energy thinkers — as well as international experts — warn there's no pedal any premier can stomp to make that engine rev like it used to.

Oil giant may lose lobby access over failure to answer climate change denial questions

What happens when an energy pipeline developer comes to town? Brandi Morin examines the pressure on a First Nations community in central interior B.C. when Enbridge, with an oil pipeline proposal, and then TransCanada, with the Coastal GasLink project, came calling. Elected Nak’azdli Whut’en Chief Alexander McKinnon relives one of the most difficult decisions of his life.

The Pan-Canadian Expert Collaboration, a new institute, will help Canadians see if their federal government is making decisions in their best interests when it comes to tackling global warming. It will get millions of dollars in funding from the Trudeau government.

The Dorins say their son is "determined to get justice before we die." They ever wanted the oil well on their farm in rural Alberta in the first place. Now it's leaking gas. They're elderly and unwell. And they've spent a fortune in court trying to get attention and compensation.

The Fort McKay First Nation was initially kept in the dark about a toxic cloud from the oilsands that struck their community after companies restarted operations that had been temporarily disrupted by the Fort McMurray wildfires. Internal records show that the incident occurred after industry pressured the provincial regulator to rapidly restart their operations despite risks to public health.

“There are no new federal or provincial GHG policy measures to include since the 2013 report,” said the internal memo, dated Sept. 19, 2014 and released through access to information law several years after it was first requested.

Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s biggest oil companies, recently dropped out of a D.C. lobby group, saying its lack of support for the Paris Agreement to fight climate change is a "material misalignment" with Shell's stance.

Nuu-chah-nulth leadership, Indigenous front liners, celebrated environmentalists and guests will join together to celebrate 35 years of Tla-o-qui-aht sovereignty through the Meares Island Tribal Park. The Tribal Park, first formally declared in 1984, is one of four tribal parks, governed and protected by the original caretakers of the land and waters.

Several recent, narrowly-averted disasters show why Canada needs to step back into its leadership role and call for a ban of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic.

With six months until Canadians go to the polls, Conservative MP Ed Fast won’t reveal much about how his party plans to bring pollution down to “near-zero” by mid-century, as Canadian scientists concluded is necessary.

In Alberta and other fossil fuel production jurisdictions there is a whole lot of externalizing going on. Ross Belot examines the corporate practice of pushing environmental liabilities off onto government and society.

“Not very many people in any given moment of history get to say they are doing the most important thing they could be doing right now in the world,” said McKibben

It’s time for us all – and especially for our political leaders – to stop dithering and start working hard to protect the planet for the sake of future generations.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is planning to speak at a rally this week where one of the organizers has questioned scientific evidence showing that human activity is causing climate change. The Opposition NDP leader in the prairie province has recommended that the premier tell the crowd that climate change is real.