windfall tax

In the months before the federal budget was released, scores of meetings were recorded between fossil fuel industry representatives and the federal government. With a key ask from climate advocates ignored, who is Finance Canada listening to?

The federal government should include a windfall tax when it delivers its budget today and use those funds to increase government climate action. 

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has ruled out raising taxes on the middle class in the upcoming federal budget — but won't say if corporations or the wealthy are in for the same treatment.

While debate rages over carbon tax carveouts, other bold actions that could reduce planet-heating pollution get short shrift.

A political consensus is emerging that climate policy is not compatible with a fair and prosperous economy, which puts Canada’s broader efforts to tackle the climate crisis at grave risk.

We won’t apologize for fighting for vulnerable Canadians across the country, including the many who live in rural Canada and Atlantic Canada.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s symbolic motion calling for more carbon tax carveouts was defeated, but this won’t end the polarizing debate that centres on equity.

While Canada's largest oil and gas companies make record profits, the federal government has resisted slapping the sector with a windfall profit tax. A new analysis from the Parliamentary Budget Officer finds Ottawa is leaving billions on the table.

Oilsands executives insist they are all in on cutting emissions and will make big investments in green technology, but they maintain there isn't a place to invest that money yet.

People aren’t picking between Disney+ or Netflix, they’re choosing between which bills they can and can’t pay, writes NDP MP Niki Ashton.

Oil and gas companies that pushed the federal government for more funding for carbon capture technology will be sorely disappointed by the fall economic statement.

With oil and gas companies under increased scrutiny for how they choose to use their record-breaking profits in 2022, the chief executive of Cenovus Energy took aim at critics by highlighting the billions of dollars the industry is expected to contribute in taxes and royalties this year.

BP’s earnings more than doubled in the third quarter as the London-based energy giant benefited from high oil and natural gas prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault isn't warming to the idea of combating climate change by imposing a windfall tax on the massive profits being posted by some Canadian oil and gas producers.

António Guterres implored developed countries to tax the windfall profits of fossil fuel companies and redirect those resources to countries hardest hit by the climate crisis in his sombre remarks to the UN General Assembly in New York.