Canadian oil and gas

A newly released ranking of the Toronto Stock Exchange's top performers shows just how dominant Canadian oil and gas stocks have been in 2022 thanks to surging global energy demand and sky-high commodity prices.

Canadian politicians and lobbyists are using the crisis in Ukraine to advocate for more fossil fuel expansion in a move of “crass opportunism,” said Green Party parliamentary leader Elizabeth May.

Countries such as Canada may be required to constrain extraterritorial actions by their own companies or citizens that threaten the environment, writes Ottawa-based climate consultant Geoff Stiles.

“We're finding that (methane) emissions are at least 1.5 times higher than what's currently being reported in official inventory reports,” says Katlyn MacKay, lead author of a recent study.

The association that represents Canadian drilling companies is forecasting a minuscule improvement in drilling activity in 2020.

Parliamentary security says it made a mistake telling an Alberta man he wasn't allowed to wear a T-shirt in support of Canadian oil and gas during a visit to the Senate.

Ottawa's approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion pleased business leaders on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, but they say they will hold off on popping champagne corks until construction begins on new pipe from Edmonton to the West Coast.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi he wants to find ways to ship Canadian oil and gas to India to meet its voracious energy needs.