Energy

The incident happened at Syncrude's Aurora site Sunday evening.

The Green Party added its voice to the chorus calling on the government to give farmers an exemption for the tax on the natural gas or propane used in grain-drying machines.

The incident happened in February 2018 near Spirit River, in northwestern Alberta.

Short-term forecasts show a good year ahead for the energy sector. But long term, Canadians are pushing for clean energy and global demand for petroleum may peak sooner than expected.

“The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the rule of law and put an end to the British Columbia government’s campaign of obstruction against Alberta energy," declared Alberta Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer.

Lawyers at Ecojustice plan to argue in front of the Supreme Court this week that environmental protection is an underlying principle of the Constitution, just like democracy and human rights.

Opposition politicians in Ontario are demanding an independent investigation after a false alarm about the Pickering nuclear plant was not fixed for almost two hours.

Cenovus Energy’s plan to green its operations and ultimately reach net-zero emissions by 2050 is being welcomed by some analysts as a good starting point, while others wonder why it ignores a major share of global carbon pollution — the burning of its own product.

The UCP government in Alberta refuses to respect Indigenous rights, says Alberta NDP energy critic Irfan Sabir.

As of Jan. 1, Canada is enforcing a new UN-backed cap on the amount of sulphur allowed in heavy fuel oil in the waters north of the 60th parallel.

In place of the elite, nimble fact-checking bureau Premier Jason Kenney had promised for Alberta’s oil and gas sector, the war room appears instead to be building the media equivalent of a roaring $30-million bonfire of government money in front of the legislature.

In 2019, stories about Doug Ford’s cuts, Jason Kenney’s theories and Andrew Scheer’s run at the top job dominated readership.

The company behind the $6.2-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline in British Columbia says it's made a deal to sell a 65 per cent equity interest in the project, which has sparked protests and arrests.

Ontario's electricity system operator counted enough phantom demand to power a small city, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in extra charges to some customers, according to the Ontario Energy Board. It didn't tell anyone about the error once it noticed and fixed it.

A lack of diversity among scientists may skew how the public perceives the idea of hacking the climate.