Alberta Energy Minister Brian Jean's department is opening consultations on how to deal with Alberta's nearly half-million oil and gas wells, two-thirds of which are not producing. Estimates of the potential cost vary wildly into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Alberta's Energy Minister Brian Jean says the effort might involve using public finances, even though industry is already legally required to clean up its mess.

The largest study of Canada's catastrophic 2023 wildfire season concludes it is "inescapable" that the record burn was caused by extreme heat and parching drought, while adding the amount of young forests consumed could make recovery harder.

The clean energy think tank The Pembina Institute says in a report released Friday that 53 wind and solar projects were abandoned after the United Conservative Party government paused approvals for seven months then failed to clarify new rules for those developments. 

"Fire is a natural process and we expect animals to find new places to live," said James McCormick, Jasper's human-wildlife coexistence specialist.

Ron Hallman, CEO of the federal agency, said it was "ridiculous" to assert his organization puts a higher value on nature than people.

A prominent Alberta utility is seeking to delay a hearing on appropriate remedies for gas and electricity rates the province's utilities regulator says were neither reasonable nor justified.

A highly critical report from the auditor released Wednesday finds Alberta has implemented water conservation objectives in two of its seven major river basins. The government also doesn't know if existing water conservation objectives are working.

Canada's longest river is at historically low levels, stranding communities that rely on it for essential goods and alarming First Nations along its banks who have never known the mighty Mackenzie to be so shallow.

Investigators with an international environmental watchdog have recommended a probe into whether Canada is violating its own laws by not stopping toxic wastewater from being dumped into the ocean along its Pacific coast.