When it comes to talking about how the northern Alberta oilsands have lost their lustre for foreign investors, Satoshi Abe sounds a lot like his Canadian counterparts.
In the three years since world leaders signed the Paris Agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world’s five largest oil and gas companies have spent more than $1 billion on misleading branding and lobbying related to climate change, according to a new report.
Canada’s Centre for Offshore Oil, Gas and Energy Research, or COOGER, studies how the toxic mix of oil sands crude and diluent that courses through pipelines could damage the environment in the event of a spill — and how microbes could help clean it up.
BP Canada has been given the green light to restart drilling operations off the coast of Nova Scotia, a month after the energy giant spilled thousands of litres of drilling mud into the Atlantic Ocean.
Lunenburg town council is taking a stand after recent government approval of British Petroleum’s deepwater drilling project 300 kilometres off the coast from this picturesque Nova Scotia community, a UNESCO world heritage site with an economy dependent on tourism and fish.
A federal judge presiding over lawsuits that accuse big oil companies of lying about global warming to protect their profits is turning his courtroom into a classroom in what could be the first hearing to study the science of climate change.
On a cool wet morning in Tuktoyaktuk, I rode with the polar bear hunter. It was tied to what was about to happen to the town, and how it would open up the place to visitors.
The announcement could prove to be a major win for Arctic conservation, ending long-standing delays in efforts to protect Lancaster Sound, home to narwhals, beluga whales and polar bears.
With up to $500 million at stake, a controversial review of Arctic oil exploration initiated by Conservatives and big oil companies will proceed, the Liberal government has announced.
High-risk venture has reached the environmental assessment stage and remains on track to have a test well drilled about 230 kilometres southeast of Halifax in 2,000 to 3,000 metres of water