Energy

The Ontario government is increasing energy bills, air pollution, health impacts and greenhouse gas commissions through policies that promote the use of fossil fuels, says the province's environmental commissioner, Dianne Saxe, in her final report released on March 27, 2019.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is to make her case in person to a Senate committee studying proposed legislation that would change how major energy projects are approved.

Some voters had a lot of hope for the federal Liberals back in 2015. First of all, Justin Trudeau was not Stephen Harper. He also had a pile of platform promises that appealed to many Canadians. Confronting climate change was one of the big ones.

Alberta is asking for private companies to put forward expressions of interest in building new refining capacity in the oil-producing province, one of several steps to deal with what Premier Rachel Notley called "an extraordinary and punishing oil price crisis."

Quebec Premier François Legault says his government plans to boldly ramp up his province's action to fight climate change, warning that the entire planet's survival is hanging in the balance.

The fate of a proposed wind project on Quebec’s North Shore is up in the air amid resignations at Hydro-Quebec and signals from Francois Legault's new government that it is doomed.

A surge in exports of energy, aircraft and pharmaceutical products helped propel Canada's economy higher in the second quarter of this year, Statistics Canada said on Thursday, August 30, 2018.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is musing about breaking a key campaign promise geared at the province's cottage country in the last election. And he's blaming ex-premier Kathleen Wynne's Liberal government for his apparent waffling.

The United States declared the NAFTA countries were nowhere close to a deal in a statement on Thursday, May 17, 2018, designed to douse expectations that an agreement might be just a few minor adjustments away.

Alberta’s electricity sector is undergoing a substantial transformation. There’s no stopping it; the sector is changing worldwide. The change is driven by cheap renewable energy, aging infrastructure, declining coal value and the need to better manage the health impacts of air pollution.

A burgeoning middle class and a warming world will result in energy demand for cooling overtaking that for heating by the middle of the century, researchers have predicted.

Former FBI director James Comey, whose new book has provoked angry tweets from President Donald Trump, is scheduled to speak at an Ottawa conference just before the G7 summit in early June.

The head of one of Canada's largest banks is urging the federal government to stem the flow of investment capital from this country to the United States — because, he warns, it's already leaving in "real time."

The federal government and Saskatchewan are still deadlocked on a national climate change plan despite what the two sides call a constructive meeting on Friday, March 9, 2018.

Lawmakers are demanding answers from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke about why political appointees in his department asked for early access to data from a study of oil and gas deposits on Alaska’s North Slope—a request that led to the resignation of a top scientist at the US Geological Survey.