Coastal GasLink

RBC was an “exclusive presenting sponsor” of the annual Truth and Reconciliation Week this year. But as construction crews continue to build Coastal GasLink on Wet'suwet'en territory, Greg Macdougall writes, the problem was in starker view.

The B.C. provincial government is in court this week defending itself against allegations that it has failed to present an adequate plan to meet the province’s greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.

As Coastal GasLink prepares to drill under the Wedzin Kwa (Morice River), Wet’suwet’en hereditary leadership and their allies are saying the fight is reaching a flashpoint — and supporters across the country are on notice.

B.C.’s old-growth forests are still in jeopardy despite the province’s pledge to work with Indigenous nations to temporarily ban logging in specific areas, a new report by Stand.earth finds.

The 670-kilometre pipeline, which aims to carry natural gas across the province to the LNG Canada processing and export facility in Kitimat, is already about 70 per cent complete, Poirier said. Until Thursday, the pipeline's cost estimate stood at $6.6 billion.

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project is what it looks like when we privatize the profits and socialize the risk of energy production.

The British Columbia Prosecution Service says 15 people are being charged with criminal contempt of court following protests last fall over a natural gas pipeline being built near Houston in northern B.C.

The UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is urging Canada to stop construction of the Trans Mountain and Coastal GasLink pipelines.

Federal officials feared a repeat of the 2020 rail blockades one month before RCMP enforced an injunction last fall against protests that cut off access to a pipeline construction site in northern British Columbia.

From carbon capture and hydrogen development to the accelerated rollout of wind and solar power and rapid electrification of transportation systems, the federal government has laid out an ambitious roadmap to get Canada to its climate target of cutting emissions by 40 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero emissions by 2050.

“Today is one of the highest insults I've ever received as a chief,” Wet'suwet'en hereditary Chief Namoks said Thursday after RBC cancelled the in-person portion of its meeting at the last minute. “You’ve seen the violence (on Wet'suwet'en territory); I think today's insult was bigger.”

The parent company of City National Bank, sometimes referred to as the “Bank to the Stars,” is facing pressure from high-profile Hollywood actors over its financing of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in northern B.C.

If the Coastal GasLink pipeline is completed, 16 First Nations in B.C. will have a combined 10 per cent ownership stake in the project.

RBC has a goal to lend $500 billion worth of "sustainable financing" by 2025. Now the bank is urging shareholders to reject a proposal that would stop it from including fossil fuel companies in that target.

The oil and gas industry Alberta Premier Jason Kenney holds up as ethical has some very unethical Russian money in it, writes columnist Max Fawcett.