energy industry

Three of Canada's biggest oilsands producers are going directly to voters today, August 1, 2019, to ask them to "influence the outcome" of big decisions concerning the oil and gas sector as a fall federal election looms.

Canada's spy service routinely welcomed reports from the energy industry about perceived threats, and kept such information in its files in case it might prove useful later, newly disclosed documents reveal.

Alberta's premier says staff in the province's so-called energy "war room" will be able to quickly take on industry foes without government bureaucracy holding them back.

A Senate committee has approved dozens of amendments — primarily aimed at mollifying the energy industry — to the Liberal government's controversial environmental assessment legislation.

Environment advocates say Canadian senators are bowing to pressure from the energy industry to gut new environmental-assessment legislation and they fear the Liberal government is going to do the same.

A former federal Conservative cabinet minister from Alberta is back in the political game, hoping to take down the Liberal minister in charge of the nation's energy industry, in the heart of the country's oil patch.

Big greenhouse-gas emitters will be able to take advantage of new federal tax incentives Finance Minister Bill Morneau promised on Wednesday, November 21, 2018, even if that means more emissions, the government says.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has appointed three experts to work with the energy industry to find ways to close an oil price gap that she says is costing the Canadian economy $80 million a day. She says no option is off the table.

The Alberta Energy Regulator efforts this week at damage control are nonsensical. It’s difficult to overstate the consequences of the predicament that the regulator – assumed to guard the public interest, but long since captured to serve industry – has plunged the province with a staggering unfunded liability for oil and gas cleanup.

The sky's the limit as the city of Calgary opens what it believes is the first testing area in Canada for drones, autonomous vehicles and other technologies.

Alberta's new Energy Diversification Act, introduced March 8, would commit up to $2 billion for new programs supporting the petrochemicals sector, which makes products like plastics, asphalt, pharmaceuticals, lubricants and fertilizer.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley took her pro-pipeline tour to the heart of the energy industry in Calgary on Friday, Nov. 24, 2017, where she urged business leaders not to let up on the message that Canada's climate progress depends on pipeline progress.

It's hard to make ends meet in Fort McMurray during one of the most severe oil industry crashes in Canadian history.