Energy

When Alberta premier Rachel Notley called a news conference this week to announce her NDP government is spending $1.4 million on billboards and other advertising to promote the Trans Mountain pipeline, she was driving the one big story the oil industry wants, and both she and the industry won.

The House of Commons breaks for a constituency week on Monday and returns May 22, which means that between now and the end of the month, the Commons sits for nine days. Legislation often takes longer than that to become law.

Investigative news site The Lens reports that two men hired local actors to attend New Orleans City Council meetings in October and February. Participants were paid $60 to show up, clap for anti-renewable energy comments, and wear T-shirts in support of a new power plant. They were paid extra cash to read a speech.

Canada has taken a major step in cleaning up its oil and gas sector. We’re the first country to commit to methane emission regulations for the industry, marking an important shift toward climate protection.

The environmentalist and former U.S. vice-president posted a tweet Thursday saying the pipeline carrying "dirty tar sands oil" would be a step backward in efforts to solve the climate crisis.

The outspoken climate and anti-pipeline advocate will be an independent candidate in the race to be Vancouver’s next mayor in the fall.

The former B.C. government of Christy Clark pressed Ottawa in 2016 to fix 11 "gaps" that could turn the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline and oil tanker expansion project into a disaster, reveal internal briefing notes obtained by National Observer.

Billboards supporting the massive west coast pipeline expansion project — which has provoked a provincial struggle and split public opinion — have been going up in B.C. over the last week in Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna and Kamloops, says Alberta Premier Rachel Notley.

As Bill C-69 makes its way through Parliament, a group of scientists has released a report, based on data from more than 400 submissions to government, that indicates some Canadian industries and government bodies don’t feel there is a need for more scientific rigour or transparency in federal environmental assessments.

Asia is leading the global surge in renewable energy jobs. In 2017, the renewable energy industry broke a symbolic threshold, employing over 10 million people, according to the International Renewable Energy Association's latest research.

BP’s assessment of the likelihood of an uncontrolled blowout are much too low, based on the Nova Scotia exploratory drilling conditions. BP’s assessment of the consequences of an uncontrolled blowout are based on unsubstantiated assessments of the times required for successful mobilization of blowout preventer capping stack, and if required, drilling a relief well. Both the short and long-term ‘co

A group of Canadian Indigenous leaders reaffirmed their opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion at parent company Kinder Morgan’s annual shareholder meeting in Houston on Wednesday. In a move seen as a victory for the project's opponents, shareholders voted for two of three non-binding proposals calling for improved environmental reporting.

The Alberta backlash against Suzuki is likely only the beginning. Big Oil and Alberta’s elite should get used to losing. Their empire is in decline. The hard truth — which few in Alberta, Bay Street or Ottawa want to acknowledge — is that in coming decades the oil industry must be phased out in Canada and around the world.

We’re sure that Justin Trudeau would make an amazing, honest and sincere-sounding apology if there was an oil spill in Georgia Strait. A really good sorry, like so many men in the wake of #MeToo. But we want more than that. We want to be listened to now.

The motion was defeated 85 to 207 after a fiery debate in which all sides raised concerns over costs — of acting, or of not acting in the face of climate change.