Energy

The government promised the United Nations that Canada will cut emissions 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 but Canada's greenhouse gases have been slowly trending upward for five years

A senior official with the B.C. government says the province expects to negotiate a fair share agreement with Kinder Morgan that sees the pipeline company pay for an environmental fund.

"What we’re saying is this is a roller−coaster; we know it’s a roller−coaster," said IISD president Scott Vaughan on Thursday.

After spending up to $2,600 a day plus expenses for a high-profile lawyer to review Canada’s Arctic drilling law, the Trudeau government says it’s still figuring out what to do with his report.

Kinder Morgan’s warm and fuzzy ads imply community support via regular-looking people, ignoring that the primary responsibility of this Texas-based multinational corporation.

Colorado resident Amanda Harper thinks Canadians would be ashamed if they knew some of their pension funds are tied up in fracking operations in her small, rural community.

Prime Minister approves, and praises, huge increases in the amount of climate pollution Canada will pull out of the ground, overwhelming climate policies

The lacrosse star wanted to see the demonstrations for himself, and he hoped he could lift spirits at the protesters’ campsite through his sport, known by the Iroquois as the "medicine game."

Marc Garneau was on the defensive in Vancouver after Prime Minister Trudeau approved the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion and Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline on Tuesday.

Scientists say the evidence flies in the face of what Prime Minister Trudeau was promoting this week as a safe project. In some cases, they say there was no evidence supporting his claims.

Prime Minister Trudeau has two major oil pipeline expansions, insisting all the while that the new fossil fuel infrastructure fits within his government's plan to reduce emissions.

Wall says the decision will benefit industry and workers, including pipe manufacturer Evraz which has a site in Regina.

Carr agreed that he saw his role as a cheerleader for the projects now that they have been approved, saying the decisions spoke volumes about the government’s view of their necessity.

"You can either be serious about climate change, or you can expand the tarsands. But you cannot do both," says the president of the National Union of Postal Workers.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark says the Trans Mountain expansion is "very close" to meeting the five environmental, financial, and legal conditions she needs to endorse the new pipeline.