The conventional oil and gas industry is leaving a mess in Alberta. Regan Boychuk traces how it happened and shows how industry - not taxpayers - should be made to pay.
Signs of the Canadian oil and gas industry's recovery from a punishing two-year downturn are emerging in unlikely places, including fine grains of sand.
The company faces a long list of permits and approvals before it can start construction, especially in Nebraska where TransCanada doesn't expect a ruling on the project until the end of the year.
The Government of Saskatchewan still hasn't released the results of a Husky Energy spill last summer, and already, the Calgary-based energy company has done it again.
Husky Energy has reported another pipeline oil spill. This time, Alberta's Energy Regulator says a pipeline has leaked crude oil in southwestern Alberta.
The federal government has handed out one of its first major contracts as part of a promise to run all of its operations on renewable energy within a decade.
The small group has amassed a following of over 50,000 users on Facebook, rapidly attracting dozens of shares and likes for just about every attack of an NDP government policy or the media.
Cash-strapped Alberta is banking on bad times getting better in a fingers-crossed budget that drips red ink but promises a hospital, new schools and more money for seniors and social services.
Prime Minister Trudeau says no country “would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them there.” No country, perhaps. But some energy giants are doing just that.