Catherine McKenna

Terry Beech shows up in casual clothes on a Friday a few metres away from a gate at the limits of Kinder Morgan’s property, watching as waves of residents from the southwestern British Columbia community of Powell River risk arrest by lining up to block incoming traffic. He says that 58 per cent of his constituents told his office in a recent survey that they oppose the project.

Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna's comments follow concerns flagged by scientists, First Nations and British Columbia about the environmental risk of spills of diluted bitumen, the tar-like heavy oil produced by Alberta's oilsands companies, that will be sent along Trans Mountain.

Quebec Environment Minister Isabelle Melançon is urging her federal counterpart not to cave in to the Trump administration's efforts to water down tailpipe pollution regulations for vehicles.

The federal government is failing to protect Canadians from toxic refinery emissions pumped into the air at rates far above those in the United States, opposition politicians said Thursday in response to a Toronto Star/Global News/National Observer investigation. Federal MPs said they were shocked and troubled by the findings.

The average Canadian refinery produced less oil while emitting substantially higher rates of sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides compared with the U.S. average in 2014, the data shows from a joint investigation by National Observer, Global News and The Toronto Star.

The job of journalists is not to be popular, or go along to get along, but to pursue facts that matter – then let them fall ‘without fear or favour’. Which brings us to Canada’s bitumen bubble, and missing-in-action media coverage, which amounts to malpractice.

Canada’s fossil fuel industry will soon have to make sure a potent form of its carbon pollution doesn't escape from its operations, in order to protect the environment, clean the air and save over 10 billion dollars in avoided climate change costs, according to new federal rules.

The threat of diluted bitumen spills has been flagged as a major concern by scientists, First Nations and British Columbia. Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna told her provincial B.C. counterpart she has a plan to address this concern.

Coal workers and their communities need to be included in the government's coal phase-out discussions, say labour leaders, in order to build trust around environmental initiatives and craft policy that is better connected to real anxieties and concerns.

Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna is defending BP Canada's plans to drill a deep-water exploration well roughly 330 kilometres off the coast of Halifax.

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The Trudeau government's cabinet ministers received warnings from bureaucrats that the approval of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion could trigger civil disobedience or protests, but it is keeping these warnings secret, National Observer has learned.

The announcement by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt to weaken tailpipe pollution standards on new cars delivers another Trump-era shock to Canada, which has worked for years with the United States to align transportation emissions standards.

Canada’s proposed climate plan doesn’t even get halfway to its target because of problems with international offsets. The resulting emissions gap is twice as big as advertised.

Neither Ottawa nor the provinces have really assessed the risks a changing climate poses to the country and have no real idea what might be needed to adapt to it, said a new audit released Tuesday.