Energy

As Chief of Saik’uz First Nation, I have spent many years working to defend our territory and future generations from the risks posed by oil pipelines, writes Jackie Thomas. That’s why I was so dismayed to see recent media coverage of the proposed Eagle Spirit oil project, suggesting broad First Nations support for the proposal. 

The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation sought to block the expansion of Syncrude Canada Ltd's Mildred Lake oilsands operation in a filing to the province's energy regulator, adding another indigenous legal challenge to the region's resource exploitation.

The projects will create around 1,000 jobs and will leverage “our natural strengths as an energy province here in Alberta in every sense of the word,” Shannon Phillips, the province’s environment minister, said.

Alberta still doesn’t have regulations in place to determine how to operate its much-vaunted “hard cap” on oilsands emissions, first announced in late 2015.

Just in case the federal Liberals were in danger of forgetting what Alberta Premier Rachel Notley wants for Christmas this year, she sent them a reminder outside their annual holiday party in Ottawa this week.

Three members of the Secwepemc First Nation were arrested in Kamloops on Monday as they sought to disrupt closed-door talks they were excluded from about the Trans Mountain pipeline taking place between government officials and other Indigenous groups.

Opponents of Enbridge's Line 3 are shifting their focus to an appeals court and getting ready to demonstrate along the route as construction preparations ramp up.

Hot on the heels of announcing B.C.’s climate strategy, Environment Minister George Heyman is sharing ideas at the United Nations climate change conference in Poland, talking about how best to reduce emissions while keeping life affordable for both people and businesses.

Alberta is asking for private companies to put forward expressions of interest in building new refining capacity in the oil-producing province, one of several steps to deal with what Premier Rachel Notley called "an extraordinary and punishing oil price crisis."

Major Canadian oil and pipelines companies Cenovus Energy Inc (TSX:CVE) and Enbridge Inc (TSX:ENB) plan to spend more than $1 billion each in 2019 as they struggle to deal with low commodity prices.

Canada is living in a fantasy if the government thinks it can meet its greenhouse-gas promises without reducing how much oil and gas the country produces, environment groups told the world at a global conference on climate change Monday.

Canada may decide in future to enshrine carbon pollution reduction targets in law, says Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna. It was among her comments in a wide-ranging interview with National Observer from Katowice, Poland, where international climate talks are taking place.

“For me, being an environmentalist is being pro-nuclear," says one engineer. But the simple argument that nuclear plants should stay because they are cleaner is increasingly complicated these days.

When Susan Lambert was sentenced to seven days in jail for breaching the Kinder Morgan pipeline injunction, she was immediately taken into custody. But the former head of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation says she'd do it again. She's not alone.

For the first time, Generation Squeeze is intervening in the court system, and the advocacy group has chosen climate change as its cause. Gen Squeeze is a national collaboration that aims to give a voice to younger Canadians...