Jean Gosselin, a Quebec organic farmer who has been fighting pipelines for 15 years, hopes Canada's new pipeline regulator will protect landowners' rights.
Alberta's carbon tax jumped on New Year's Day, but the province's NDP government maintains the tax played a vital role in Alberta's improving economic outlook.
Now, I know the advice that many of us abide by. Don’t feed the trolls and by in large, I don’t. I’m breaking this rule because I think the misogynistic and violent nature of certain comments and potential links to pro-oil platforms needs to be called out.
Punctuating her address several times with her trademark, full-sized laugh, the newly-elected Valérie Plante said that “we have lots of work to do in the coming years,” and appealed directly to Montrealers for their help in “getting [it] done.”
Did regulation kill Energy East? Conservative leader Andrew Scheer thinks it did and so does Premier Brad Wall of Saskatchewan. Warren Mabee of Queen's University has a different take.
"I just find it odd that every time the prime minister makes a decision where Canadians are upset by the result of that, that he somehow blames them," said Tory leader Andrew Scheer.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a Facebook post that critics who attribute the proposed Energy East pipeline project's cancellation to government regulation "ignores the obvious."
A lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law says the Energy East announcement is cause for celebration among those challenging Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion.
TransCanada's decision to quash the controversial pipeline project on Thursday put an end to a polarizing debate over financial benefits and economic impacts that has gone on for years.
TransCanada's chief executive, Russ Girling, said the decision was expected to cost the company a $1 billion loss due to the investments it has already made on the project.