natural gas

Climate takeaways from the 2024 Fall Economic Statement: updates on oil and gas, clean energy tax credits, nuclear regulations and more.

British Columbia's gas utility is hiking its prices nearly 20 per cent, in part to help cover the cost of a climate plan that will do little to reduce the province’s harmful emissions or use of fossil-based natural gas.

Mobilizing to confront the climate emergency desperately requires forward momentum. Instead, thanks to the unrelenting persistence of the fossil gas industry, countless Vancouver-area climate activists and organizations just spent untold hours over the last four months re-prosecuting a fight they had already won.

As conservative Vancouver city councillors prepare to vote on whether to overturn a key climate measure banning natural gas for home heating in new buildings, hearings stretched days beyond schedule with over 140 people voicing opinions.

But even if this vote goes the wrong way, consumer demand is already forcing the shift. Just like cassette tapes  were displaced by streaming, the superior performance of heat pumps will soon spell the end of the natural gas furnace. 

Some of Vancouver's leading builders are eyeing with frustration an upcoming city council vote that could eliminate the city's years-old restrictions on using natural gas in new buildings.

Hundreds of homebuilders, restaurateurs, food providers and other entrepreneurs are asking Vancouver's municipal council to reinstate the city's ban on natural gas in new buildings.

On Monday morning, a grassroots activist blocked a road leading to a work camp in Nisga’a territory that will support the construction of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline (PRGT).

A northern B.C. couple was unsuccessful in their bid to protect themselves, their three children and over a dozen animals from the noxious gases poised to be emitted by a natural gas well adjacent to their home. But while their effort to halt operations at the well failed in court, observers say the case highlights potentially fatal problems in provincial rules regulating gas wells.

The gas company has started offering mammoth rebates of $10,000 for customers who purchase dual-system electric heat pumps with gas back-up

In a dramatic Tuesday council meeting, four ABC party councillors voted to approve an amendment that reverses city rules from 2020 prohibiting new buildings from using natural gas for heating and hot water.

For the first time, Alberta's oil and gas industry has exceeded the province's own regulatory limit for natural gas flaring.

The Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program will be sector agnostic, allowing Indigenous nations to choose their path to economic prosperity. How might it conflict with the climate crisis?