Energy

European colonization of the Americas resulted in the killing of so many native people that it transformed the environment and caused the Earth’s climate to cool down, new research has found.

Alberta's energy minister says taxpayers are "better protected" thanks to a Supreme Court of Canada decision Thursday that prioritized clean up costs for abandoned oil and gas wells before debts to creditors when companies go bankrupt. But the NDP government still doesn't have a cleanup plan for more than 80,000 inactive sites.

The Trudeau government faces a significant risk of having overpaid for the Trans Mountain pipeline project, having shelled out "at the higher end" of its value, leaving virtually no room for an expected construction delay, possible cost overruns or other factors, says Canada's parliamentary watchdog.

The Supreme Court of Canada delivered its long-anticipated decision, with important implications for the oilpatch, in Ottawa on Jan. 31, 2019.

NDP Premier Rachel Notley's Alberta government has announced it will allow oil companies to increase production after imposing cuts last December.

Latest government report shows Canada is now on track to miss Paris climate target by more than the province of Quebec emits. And that’s the good news…

A subsidiary of Calgary-based energy company TransCanada bulldozed through traplines and personal property from two different clans of the Wet'suwet'en Nation last week, while the RCMP enforced an interim injunction requested by the company so that it could proceed with construction. Some Wet'suwet'en members said the RCMP prevented them from entering their own territories. 

In launching his new book, The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster: Public Betrayal, Justice Denied, author Bruce Campbell says it could happen again. Canadian shipments of oil by rail are skyrocketing.

Prime Minister Trudeau is relying on an aggressive and outdated Western Canadian crude oil supply outlook to re-approve Trans Mountain’s expansion.

Almost half of the funding in a federal program Canada has promoted as a boon for electric vehicles is being used for natural gas refueling.

Canada's pipeline regulator, the National Energy Board, deleted an email from its server to avoid "undue embarrassment" to employees involved in an incident, says a newly-released report obtained by National Observer.

Canada’s largest oil company has made a popular list of the world’s 100 most sustainable corporations by having an industry-leading portion of clean revenues.

The National Energy Board is accepting comments on whether it should consider all climate-related impacts of the proposed Trans Mountain oil pipeline and tanker expansion in its latest review of the project.

An east-end Montreal school board says that all of the students and staff are safe after being forced to call in emergency crews to respond to a mysterious odour at an elementary school that was reportedly prompted by an incident at a nearby Suncor refinery.

The Bank of Canada and other key financial institutions are moving toward green disclosure practices, but none appear close to recently-recommended requirements for mandatory reporting on climate change risks to the economy that investors are hungry for.