Energy

Four teens argued that the TMX expansion infringes on their rights. They lost in court, and the corporation initially asked that they foot the bill.

An analysis of tweets made after Bernier's attack on Greta Thunberg highlight how easily hashtags can be dominated by just a few users.

With the potential of their signature issue to be a prime ballot-box question in the Oct. 21 federal election, the Green Party of Canada is facing increased scrutiny.

The idea of a Canadian Energy Information Centre represents the one thing everyone that works in Canada's energy sector — from environmentalists to oil and gas workers — agree on: that Canada needs reliable energy statistics.

The federal court of appeal will hear six First Nations challenge the approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

With climate change poised to be a central issue in this fall’s Canadian federal election, it's time to take an unvarnished look at the winners and losers during the past four years of Liberal party reign.

To avoid a climate crisis we'll need to quickly switch to cleaner vehicles. Here's a look at which kinds are clean enough to meet climate goals ⁠— and which aren't.

Scientists have linked the increasing number and ferocity of wildfires to global heating, but you’d never know that if you depended on Canada’s corporate media.

How Manitoba arrived at the decision to reject carbon pricing shows the obvious political limits to this policy tool.

Idle No More organizer Tori Cress says the surveillance state's interest in protest movements has always been “a given.” So what did we learn from the heavily redacted Protest Papers?

If we’re to hit our climate targets and decarbonize Canada by 2050, we’ll need more electricity. After all, electrification — that is, getting everything onto our increasingly clean power grid — is the ribbon that ties all of our climate efforts together.

The words may not have been explicit, but oilpatch contractor Matthew Linnitt says he read between the lines: lie on official documents about an incident that could have killed him, or someone would be fired.

Should a Canadian citizen want to make investments which exclude the fossil fuel sector or divest from fossil fuels, and is inclined to give priority for Canadian companies, they appear to be out of luck.

Three LNG projects in Squamish and Kitimat would require over 13,000 new fracking wells over the next 30 years between them. While industry and government tout this brand new fossil fuel industry as the 'cleanest LNG in the world' there’s little talk of the explosion in fracking operations it would bring.

The climate emergency is real and demands urgent attention, and National Observer is proud to join with media outlets around the world to highlight our predicament and possible ways out of this mess as part of the Covering Climate Now project.