oilsands

Canadians have become one of the world's largest extractors of climate pollution. And we're just getting started.

Barclays Capital calculated that Canada's Big Six banks — CIBC, Royal Bank, Scotiabank, TD Bank, BMO and National Bank — took $1.3 billion in energy industry loan loss provisions over five quarters.

A small green power company says it has closed a deal to buy a half−built oilsands power plant in northern Alberta halted 16 months ago by international oil giant Royal Dutch Shell.

Energy and climate policies have got Prime Minister Justin Trudeau struggling like a devil in a cauldron of holy water outside the gates of hell, writes columnist Gérard Montpetit.

A week after Statoil sold off all its assets in Alberta’s oilsands, it looked eastward, to Newfoundland’s offshore.

Despite record unemployment numbers in 2016 and an oil market crash that put thousands out of work, Alberta continues to lead Canada’s provinces in population growth.

A researcher says the agency that monitors Alberta's energy industry has underestimated the impact of tens of thousands of spills going back decades.

The local man, who’s a well-known protester, waved his red hat for much of the hour-long event at the University of Calgary. It came at the end of a two-day cabinet retreat in the southern Alberta.

Trudeau said he "misspoke," but some say he was right about the need to phase out the oilsands.

"This project is going to create good jobs here in Alberta, and that's my focus," Alberta Premier Rachel Notley told reporters on Tuesday.

The person with knowledge of Trump’s decisions insisted on anonymity because that person was not authorized to confirm the moves ahead of a formal announcement.

"One of the things we inherited from the previous government was a high degree of mistrust by Canadians," Trudeau said as he continued his cross−country tour Tuesday.

Reading Andrew Nikiforuk's Slick Water will make you sadder and wiser with an understanding of how governments and Big Oil and Gas have sung from the same hymn book, writes Warren Bell.

The embattled National Energy Board has proposed new rules requiring pipeline operators to provide more information about how they would respond to emergencies.

“The Koch brothers are infamous for their attacks on any move on climate policy and I think they see Alberta as a threat," said Keith Stewart of Greenpeace.