Energy

The cancer caused by asbestos takes a long time to develop, but once it does, the damage is often brutal and injury lawsuits plentiful — and the Canadian financial industry should keep that kind of slow-burn risk in mind for the climate crisis, its regulator says.

Earlier this month, the Ontario government cancelled the half-built Nation Rise Wind Farm, citing concerns about local bats. The company behind the project says that claim isn’t rooted in science.

Attorney General of Canada David Lametti has argued in a memorandum of fact and law submitted to the court that the reviews in question were "internal notes," not actual scientific peer reviews.

Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says he is "very interested in the discussions around how technology can enable us not simply to address emissions-intensity-related issues, but to help us think about how we might extract energy without pollution."

It’s been more than a dozen years since the metaphorical alarm was first sounded, and yet the residents of Fort Chipewyan still don’t know what’s killing them. But what they do know is that there are still elevated rates of cancer in the northern Alberta community.

Canada commissioned reviews of Tsleil-Waututh expert reports on oil spills without telling the First Nation, the Federal Court of Appeal heard Monday, and only provided them after talks had wrapped up.

Canada came to COP25 "in the spirit of compromise" but left "disappointed," says Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson.

They've admitted they still don't know.

Andrew Hayes, interim federal environment and sustainable-development commissioner, described the approach he uncovered as “layering disconnected strategies on more strategies,” and said this was confusing for both government officials and Canadians. 

“I told the prime minister in May I’m prepared to talk to him about that,” Kenney said Monday, after being asked whether he would keep the oilsands emissions cap in place. 

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg and 14 other young people are calling on Canada to block any new oil and gas projects and move quickly to phase out existing production, saying that to do so would blaze a trail that other countries reliant on fossil fuel industries could follow.

Following the lead of European countries, Foresight CEO Jeanette Jackson is launching a plan to create a “clean-tech cluster” in B.C., fostering collaboration and growth across companies.

The government made it clear that it plans to continue with its carbon pricing system, in the hopes of making it more costly to pollute and so depressing emissions over time.

Ford's F-150 is over 100 times more polluting than Tesla’s new Cybertruck.