Ecojustice

West coast environmental groups argue no measure would save southern resident whales from a catastrophic oil spill.

Coal mining exploration on Alberta’s eastern slopes rears its head once again.

Newly surfaced federal data on Canada's exported emissions reveals a concerning trend. Despite emission reduction efforts at home, Canada's exported emissions from coal, oil and gas are dramatically climbing — and wiping out domestic progress.

The Alberta Energy Regulator is denying a request from the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and group of environmental organizations for an environmental assessment of the Pathways Alliance’s proposed carbon capture project.

Canada committed to ending thermal coal exports by 2030, but a massive mine expansion proposed in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains will keep exports trending in the wrong direction.

A First Nation in Quebec has won a case in the Superior Court over free entry mining claims.

A coalition of community groups and a First Nation in Northern British Columbia have launched a court challenge against the BC Energy Regulator (BCER). They say the regulator is bypassing legal requirements by allowing construction of a pipeline to begin without a complete and updated picture of the total environmental impact.

If plans to expand carbon capture technology are pursued, it will mean a network of hundreds, if not thousands, of kilometres of concentrated CO2 pipelines running under communities and Indigenous nations, demanding increased attention paid to these emerging risks.

The International Court of Justice's deliberations will lead to non-binding opinions, but they're still anticipated to have considerable impact on international climate change negotiations.

Following 15 years of delays, the federal government has released a strategy that should preserve critical habitat for the redside dace — a small, but important, freshwater fish.

Ineos Styrolution, the plastics plant mired in controversy since high levels of benzene pollution were reported there earlier this year, is citing economic realities in its announcement that it will shut its Sarnia operations, which employ approximately 80 workers and numerous contractors.

As residents in Ontario's Chemical Valley grapple with dangerously high levels of benzene, air monitoring data also reveals very high levels of sulphur dioxide that environmental advocates urge must be brought under control.

A massive carbon capture project in Canada’s oilsands should require an environmental impact assessment, say a local First Nation and environmental groups who are calling on the provincial government to make it happen.

Tuesday’s proposed amendments are designed to insulate Ottawa from potential court challenges over its authority to regulate major projects in provincial jurisdiction, but environmentalists fear the feds are retreating from their responsibility to fight climate change.

The lawsuit alleges FortisBC has inaccurately promoted natural gas to consumers as a form of home heating that is always more affordable and sustainable than electric alternatives. The suit suggests that neither claim is true.