Energy

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 rise of renewable power has created a need for energy storage that companies are fulfilling with underwater balloons, multi−tonne flywheels and decades−old designs.

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

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Alberta rancher Jessica Ernst will not be able to sue the province's energy regulator regarding fracking activities on her land.

“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.

European Parliament may soon push ahead with a trade deal that could encourage Canadian tar sand oil imports, reports Mat Hope of DeSmog UK.

The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs says it is taking further steps in its fight against the Enbridge 3 line replacement project.

“The last thing they need is hundreds of loud oil tankers carrying millions of gallons of dirty oil through their habitat," says the Center for Biological Diversity in California.

Weeks after recusing themselves from the federal review of TransCanada's Energy East project, two National Energy Board members were back on the job, reviewing another TransCanada-linked project.

The hand-painted sign on a bumpy road on the east side of Hanna speaks volumes, writes Bill Graveland of The Canadian Press.

After years of dramatic opposition by B.C. residents, the pipeline expansion project of a Texas-based energy company, Kinder Morgan, is one step closer to breaking ground in Canada.

Less than 24 hours after Canada's federal pipeline regulator named a new Energy East hearing panel, an environmental group in northern Ontario is trying to shut it down.

The U.S. film star and Oscar winner said she made the visit to learn about the impact of oilsands development on First Nations and to support their opposition to pipelines.

"We have a message for the Pacific Northwest LNG project's investors in Asia — sell your stock," Yvonne Lattie, Gitxsan Hereditary Chief of Wilp Gwininitw, said at a press conference in Vancouver.

A shareholder advisory firm reviewed 52 of Canada's big energy companies and found that none had board members who listed climate change as an area of knowledge.