Alberta

Energy Transitions Commission chair Adair Turner sees “serious challenge” ahead for country as greater-than-expected oil and gas export revenue loss combines with high-price ramp up of carbon capture to meet national climate targets.

Hundreds of residents in four neighbourhoods in the southern end of Fort McMurray have been ordered out as a wildfire threatens the Alberta community, bringing back memories of a devastating fire eight years earlier. 

In the B.C. Interior, most of the 54 First Nations still don’t have anyone in the emergency co-ordinator position.

Canada's energy minister is defending carbon capture and storage technology as both effective and affordable, after an Alberta power company walked away from a planned project and a study found that another project got public subsidies to cover more than three-quarters of its costs.

In February, the United Conservative Party government announced new rules to develop renewable power in the province. They impose a 35-kilometre buffer zone around protected areas and what the government calls "pristine viewscapes."

Located smack-dab in the middle of the Athabasca oilsands, Fort McKay is the bull's-eye on the dart board of the world's third-largest crude oil reserve. 

With so many livelihoods dependent on oil, all eyes here are on the expected opening this week of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, a years-in-the-making megaproject which will soon start shipping Canadian crude to export markets.

Fresh research suggests western Canada's once-dwindling caribou numbers are finally growing.

An agreement to protect a sprawling ranch in southern Alberta from development is the largest of its kind in the country, the Nature Conservancy of Canada says, and will allow the family that owns it to continue raising cattle there.

Sulfolane was long thought to be harmless but now there is growing evidence of its toxicity — and emerging calls to clean it up.

Documents released under Alberta Freedom of Information laws confirm the United Conservative Party government was talking with the coal industry about relaxing a policy that protected the Rocky Mountains from open-pit mines long before making those plans public.

An Alberta environmental group opposes a solar power project over concerns it would damage antelope habitat and block their migration.

Police say a carbon-levy protest in the Crowsnest Pass on Monday led to a multi-vehicle crash after five large farm tractors refused to stop for police.

Gas prices are set to rise in Alberta next month, with the provincial government fully reinstating its fuel tax following a drop in oil prices.

If changing the course of a major global industry seems out of reach, you might take heart from the students at Tvind high school in Jutland, Denmark, who built the world’s largest wind turbine in 1978.