Energy

Climate scientist Maria Caffrey is out of a job starting Friday.

Kyle Powys Whyte, an Indigenous scientist and climate change expert, says Indigenous peoples have led some of the most vibrant climate change movements, focused on repairing and strengthening ethical and just relationships. Mistakenly, many environmentalists focus on an environmental crisis that must be addressed so urgently and swiftly, that relationships don't matter, he says.

Two years after the auditor general concluded that the Trudeau government had failed to identify its subsidies for the oil and gas industry, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says federal officials are still working on it.

Republicans call it a "socialist manifesto," environmental groups hail it, and some say it doesn’t go far enough.

Some voters had a lot of hope for the federal Liberals back in 2015. First of all, Justin Trudeau was not Stephen Harper. He also had a pile of platform promises that appealed to many Canadians. Confronting climate change was one of the big ones.

Canadian oil and gas companies are rewarding their executives for expanding fossil fuel activity despite global economic and environmental realities that make this unsustainable, says a report from Carbon Tracker.

Canada's parliamentary watchdog has made some changes to its recent report on the Trans Mountain pipeline and expansion project, rejecting previous criticism of its research by Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

Hydro-Québec has reportedly offered Maine nearly $40 million in financing for a proposed hydroelectricity project, including an electricity vehicle charging network.

A recent landmark Supreme Court ruling upholding environmental rights is a new wrinkle influencing how wide Canada's banks open their wallets when lending to the oilpatch.

If Trans Mountain’s shippers don’t pay for the purchase of the legacy line in tolls charged to them, Canadian taxpayers will.

Alberta will work with Indigenous groups in the province's remote northeast corner on what the government says will be Canada's largest off-the-grid solar power project.

When students switch to schools downwind of major roads, their test scores fall and their absences increase, according to new research

Three Canadian oilpatch giants say they had nothing to do with a campaign in favour of weaker car emissions rules backed by a U.S. trade group in which they are members.

The GM plant closure in Oshawa, Ont. presents opportunities to create a hub for post-carbon industry and workforce,write Peter Stoett and Scott Aquanno of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

The hour is late and the odds against the world’s richest and most powerful industry are steep, but at least courts have not taken away our most powerful tool. Regan Boychuk puts the Supreme Court’s Redwater decision in context.