Energy

U.S. District Judge Brian Morris said in his decision Thursday that the U.S. government's analysis didn't fully study the cumulative effects of greenhouse gas emissions, the effects of current oil prices on the pipeline's viability or include updated modelling of potential oil spills.

The fate of a proposed wind project on Quebec’s North Shore is up in the air amid resignations at Hydro-Quebec and signals from Francois Legault's new government that it is doomed.

B.C. continues to approve major LNG projects but can their climate pollution fit the province's climate targets? Take a visual tour through the data in five charts to see the implications for British Columbians.

Green Leader Elizabeth May is warning that taxpayers across Canada could soon be forced to bail out Alberta’s oilpatch because of a failure to adequately manage billions of dollars worth of liabilities — a concern immediately dismissed by federal Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi.

There's no need for an emergency debate on the looming, multibillion-dollar cost of cleaning up Alberta’s oilpatch, the governing New Democrats and official Opposition United Conservatives told the provincial legislature Tuesday. They took this position in response to a request from the legislature's lone Liberal member who suggested the matter required an urgent debate.

The recommendation is one of many contained in an “interim report” written by a group of labour, environmental and industry representatives formed by Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna.

The Alberta Energy Regulator efforts this week at damage control are nonsensical. It’s difficult to overstate the consequences of the predicament that the regulator – assumed to guard the public interest, but long since captured to serve industry – has plunged the province with a staggering unfunded liability for oil and gas cleanup.

The president of Alberta’s fossil fuel industry regulator is resigning one day after the organization publicly apologized for the alarm caused by its $260-billion estimate of financial liabilities in the province’s oilpatch.

The Alberta Energy Regulator is apologizing for a “staggering” presentation, made last February by one of its highest-ranking officials, warning the province’s oilpatch that it could be sitting on an estimated $260 billion in financial liabilities.

The staggering estimate of $260 billion in financial liabilities for the oil and gas industry’s graveyard of spent facilities were spelled out by a high-ranking official of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) in a February presentation to a private audience in Calgary.

The Trudeau government committed to at least 30 per cent new EV sales by 2030, and promised a nationwide strategy for zero-emission vehicles this year, but has yet to produce one.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe flew into Toronto on Monday for a whirlwind visit with his Ontario counterpart, Doug Ford, as the pair took turns spreading misleading information about the federal government's plan to reduce Canada's greenhouse gas emissions.

Canadian federal prosecutors and Imperial Oil are staying mum in the wake of a U.S. lawsuit that alleges Exxon Mobil misled investors about the risks borne by its oilsands assets.

The breezes of political change may be blowing across the country, but the wind energy industry says it can insulate itself from the shocks that come with new governments by offering power at competitive prices.

Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to immediately reveal the types of resource development projects that would trigger environmental reviews under a proposed new assessment regime.