Ottawa Insider

The federal government estimates Canada’s planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions are going down, but hitting its 2030 climate targets will require much larger reductions.

If the U.S. allows its liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to grow, unrestrained, there will be significant costs to both consumers and the climate, according to a new government report.

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is catching flak from opposition MPs after Canada’s Impact Assessment Agency decided a massive thermal coal mine expansion in Alberta does not require a federal assessment.

The federal Conservative Party has spent years saying the carbon tax is fuelling inflation — but a new analysis has found these emissions-pricing policies only contributed about 0.5 per cent to the more than 19 per cent increase in consumer prices since 2019.

In documents filed with the provincial regulator, BP said it is “looking to expand to offer natural gas supply into the province of New Brunswick to commercial customers.”

On Dec. 6, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) decided Coalspur’s Vista Coal mine expansion in west-central Alberta will not be subject to a federal impact assessment.

Quebec is appealing a recent court ruling that the province must consult First Nations before granting mining claims; First Nations and environmental law groups say this choise to prolong litigation is a step backwards.

Canada’s Transport Minister Anita Anand vows to work with Indigenous nations to update health studies on contamination at a Transport Canada dock in Fort Chipewyan.

The federal government could soon face another court challenge over the carbon price from the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations.

Northern Indigenous leaders are demanding action from the federal government after Transport Canada failed to inform them about water and soil contamination at a community dock in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta.

Alberta’s latest pledge to fight the proposed federal emissions cap conflicts with existing and predicted federal laws — and experts doubt whether it will have an impact.

Construction of a radioactive waste mound near the Ottawa River was challenged in federal court last week.

Two Greenpeace activists were arrested after chaining themselves to a replica oil pumpjack outside Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s official residence in Ottawa Thursday morning.

Ontario insists it still needs gas-fired electricity as part of its future mix, despite incoming federal regulations to get Canada’s electricity grid to net-zero emissions by 2035. But some municipalities are refusing to take on additional gas generation because of concerns about climate change and health.