Here’s what you need to know about Line 5, the latest pipeline fight
A legal battle has erupted over the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline that has spilled into the halls of Canada’s Parliament.
Oil spill
Many loopholes in international ban on heavy fuel in Arctic shipping: environmentalists
Environmental groups say a new ban on a highly polluting shipping fuel in Arctic waters is full of gaps and Canada should not make use of loopholes in the new regulations for heavy fuel oil.
First Nation, environmental groups seek leave to appeal pipeline ruling
A British Columbia First Nation and three environmental groups hope to appeal a Federal Court of Appeal decision that limited their ability to challenge the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in court.
Vancouver Oil Spill: MV Marathassa Acquitted In English Bay Spill
A British Columbia provincial court has acquitted a vessel on all charges over its spill of 2,700 litres of bunker fuel into Vancouver's English Bay.
B.C. chief says one major oil spill could ruin her nation's economy forever
Leaders from several north-coast B.C. First Nations say if the Senate doesn't approve a bill barring super-sized oil tankers from the region, their thriving but fragile marine-based economies will die.
COOGER town: Inside the federal lab that’s testing how oil spills affect the ocean
Canada’s Centre for Offshore Oil, Gas and Energy Research, or COOGER, studies how the toxic mix of oil sands crude and diluent that courses through pipelines could damage the environment in the event of a spill — and how microbes could help clean it up.
First Nations file lawsuit over Husky oil spill into North Saskatchewan River
Two First Nations in Saskatchewan have filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against an energy company responsible for an oil spill that fouled the drinking water supply of thousands of people two years ago.
Deliberate spill: study launched to test crude and bitumen impact on lake life
Researchers were in northwestern Ontario on the weekend spilling diluted oilsands bitumen and crude oil into a lake to study how the ecosystem, from microbes to fish, responds.
To protect the ocean and coastal communities, US and Canada must tackle 'rule-breaker' oil barges
June 8th is World Oceans Day, when people around our blue planet celebrate and honour the ocean, which connects us all. Under-regulated oil barges and articulated tug barges, which move vast quantities of oil and other fuels, require immediate attention.
Oil spill triggers emergency clean up at Kinder Morgan facility near Kamloops
Crews using an emergency response trailer and vacuum trucks are working to clean up a crude oil spill at a Kinder Morgan station north of Kamloops, B.C.
Garneau beefs up Oceans Protection Plan as Kinder Morgan conflict escalates
As the federal government doubles down on support for Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion project, Transport Minister Marc Garneau is strengthening the oceans protection plan that aims to keep British Columbia's waters free of oil spills.
Tories say pipeline impasse warrants House dropping everything to debate it
The opposition Conservatives today, April 16, 2018, will again ask for an emergency debate in the Commons on the Trans Mountain pipeline situation.
Husky facing 10 charges over 2016 Saskatchewan pipeline oil spill
The federal and Saskatchewan government says Calgary-based Husky is to appear in Lloydminster, Sask., provincial court on Thursday to face 10 charges related to a 2016 pipeline spill.