Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board

Each year, companies are invited to offer money to explore areas in the Atlantic Ocean for oil and gas deposits. But last week, the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board announced there were no new bids to explore the region in 2023. The lack of interest contrasts sharply with 2022, when over $238 million worth of exploration licences were awarded.

Canada's offshore oil and gas regulator has laid three charges against a Cenovus Energy Inc. subsidiary stemming from a huge oil spill off the coast of Newfoundland in 2018.

“Legally binding conditions” on projects are meant to protect the environment, says Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson.

Marine refuges are still counted toward Canada's conservation target, up until the point at which oil drilling begins. That turns them into "ever-receding jigsaw puzzles," says Ecology Action Centre.

The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board announced Nov. 4 that it had accepted a bid from BP Canada Energy Group ULC for 264,500 hectares of ocean in exchange for $27 million in work commitments.

The chairman of Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore oil industry regulator says back-to-back spills from the Hibernia platform over the last month represent a concerning failure to meet obligations to protect the environment.

Newfoundland and Labrador's ambitious plans to dramatically expand the province's lucrative offshore oil and gas industry got a nasty jolt on Nov. 16.

Husky Energy is apologizing for Newfoundland's largest-ever oil spill last month, which saw 250,000 litres leak into the ocean.