natural gas

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says a rainy harvest season has forced farmers to burn extra propane and natural gas in order to dry out their crops.

Third-generation farmer James Praskach has been burned by the oil and gas sector and watched wicked weather pound his crops flat, but he is hoping a new kind of energy — the renewable kind — will pay dividends.

Alberta is blazing a new trail for its red-ink economy with a budget that preserves health and education funding but takes a big stick to cities, civil servants and universities.

The Gazoduq pipeline, a key element of a $14-billion mega-project intended to be a permanent path for natural gas from West to East, would carry 1.8 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day.

Promoters of the project claim it will generate jobs and displace dirtier forms of energy, but both claims are highly questionable.

Shares in Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure Ltd. fell sharply on Friday, October 4, 2019, after it announced it would buy a small light oil refinery in Prince George, B.C., from Husky Energy Inc. for $215 million.

AltaGas Ltd. has signed a deal to sell its stake in the Central Penn Pipeline to Meade Pipeline Investment LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Partners LP for $870 million.

Although the electrification of industry is a broadly positive step, public money spent extending the scope and life expectancy of natural gas production in B.C. is greenwashing at its worst, critics say.

Three LNG projects in Squamish and Kitimat would require over 13,000 new fracking wells over the next 30 years between them. While industry and government tout this brand new fossil fuel industry as the 'cleanest LNG in the world' there’s little talk of the explosion in fracking operations it would bring.

A regional gas pipeline ruptured early on Thursday, August 1, 2019, in Kentucky, causing a massive explosion that killed one person, hospitalized five others, destroyed railroad tracks and forced the evacuation of a nearby mobile home park, authorities said.

The CEOs of nine Alberta natural gas producers have released an open letter to Premier Jason Kenney asking him to show "bold leadership" in supporting a plan to restrict production to boost low gas prices.

The Global Energy Monitor says an international boom in liquefied natural gas exports is undermining global efforts to stop climate change and Canada is one of the industry's biggest players.

Third-generation farmer Ron Lamb remembers his father pulling six-metre-wide crop-seeding equipment around his southern Alberta grain fields in the 1990s, overlapping on each pass to make sure he covered all the ground.

Alberta's justice minister says the province is asking for a legal opinion on the constitutionality of the federal government imposing its carbon tax.

Ottawa plans to impose the federal carbon tax on Alberta starting Jan. 1 and federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she has written the province about the decision.