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Alberta politicians of all stripes say the province should be consulted on emissions caps
Alberta politicians are warning the federal Liberal government that caps on greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas will have to be set in consultation with the province.
B.C. moves from leader to follower with new climate plan
Reviewing the plan, it’s as if this summer’s deeply distressing smash-up against the climate emergency never happened, writes columnist Seth Klein.
Don’t ‘bothsides’ the just transition
Big Oil seems to be framing climate change as something worthy of debate, rather than what it clearly is: a scientific imperative to take action, writes 350 Canada's Cameron Fenton.
IEA outlook paints grim reckoning for fossil fuel industry
The International Energy Agency’s latest projection is casting new doubt on Canadian megaprojects like the Trans Mountain expansion that experts say should force a reckoning in the country’s oil industry.
There's a 'stink of desperation' about Alberta's anti-energy inquiry
It’s hard to miss as commissioner Steve Allan’s inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns tries to spin the conspiracy straw it was handed into political gold, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
B.C. is in a state of climate emergency with no emergency plan
As the crisis manifests, it’s time the provincial government gave its climate plan a reboot, writes columnist Seth Klein.
How helping save the oceans cured one young woman's climate grief
Kennedy Nikel works in cultivating seaweed for use in critical climate solutions.
Yet another extension for Alberta inquiry into oil critics
Alberta's inquiry into the funding of oil and gas industry critics is getting another deadline extension.
Canada needs to plug methane pollution from abandoned wells
Annual methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells might be underestimated by as much as 150 per cent in Canada and 20 per cent in the U.S., according to a recent study from McGill University.
Jason Kenney, the carbon tax and the art of losing a war
The Supreme Court of Canada's ruling Ottawa's right to impose a carbon tax is just the latest in a series of humiliations for Jason Kenney, writes Max Fawcett.
U.S. analysts predict more oil by rail as cross-border pipeline debates rage
The fierce debate over cross-border pipelines is putting more Canadian oil and gas on trains destined for the United States — a country experts fear is ill-equipped for the potential consequences.
Canadian companies’ watchdog still unable to take complaints about human rights abuses abroad
The Canada Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) was supposed to launch its Compliance and Dispute Resolution Mechanism in November, but it was delayed because CORE extended the consultation period relating to its operating procedures to early December.
Students push Ontario teachers to pressure pension fund to divest from fossil fuels
In a four-minute YouTube video, a group of students from across Ontario read a letter to their teachers, asking them to push the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to stop investing their retirement savings in oil, gas, coal, and pipeline companies.