Energy

Many thousands of Quebecers have mobilized to demand decisive measures to fight climate change as Premier François Legault’s new government and opposition legislators prepare to convene for the first time since the Oct. 1 election.

The Trans Mountain pipeline has generated $70 million in earnings since it was bought by the Canadian government, Finance Minister Bill Morneau's fiscal update revealed Wednesday.

The Trudeau government is hoping that a new tax incentive for businesses investing in wind turbines and solar panels will help juice investment and job growth in Canada's clean energy sector.

By 2040, all cars sold in B.C. will be clean energy vehicles, the province pledged today. Premier John Horgan announced a clean energy vehicle mandate,

In Toronto, Doug Ford's government was calling on Ottawa to focus on jobs. In Ottawa, representatives from a large trade association were asking why Toronto was killing a popular job-supporting program.

The largest-ever oil spill off the coast of Newfoundland has raised fresh safety and environmental concerns about how the province’s expanding offshore oil industry is regulated.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has appointed three experts to work with the energy industry to find ways to close an oil price gap that she says is costing the Canadian economy $80 million a day. She says no option is off the table.

The agency that regulates offshore safety in Newfoundland and Labrador says all offshore oil rigs in the province's waters have been temporarily shut down.

At the end of October, Canadian plug-in EV sales broke through the symbolic threshold of two per cent of new cars sold (2.2%), more than doubling the 0.9 per cent in 2017. This is ahead of their 1.9 per cent market share in the United States so far this year.

The federal and B.C. governments announced a $14 million conservation investment. People protested the federal government's support for pipelines at the event.

We’ve heard it time and again. The argument that Quebec has no business touting itself as a climate leader when it’s dependent on Saudi oil. But the argument simply isn’t true, according to the latest numbers.

Toxic releases are still very common, despite provincial government promises to crack down on the problem. Local residents say the alerts and scares are far too common. “They just tell us ... to just shut your doors and your windows and shut off your air conditioning," said one resident who lives near a refinery.

What is needed is leadership to ensure Albertans do not inherit the environmental liability of resource development, writes Amin Asadollahi.

In the last six years, Quebec has gone from supplying its refineries with crude oil mostly from overseas to supplying them mostly from North American sources, thanks in part to the 2015 reversal of Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline.

Will a price on carbon be a central issue in Alberta's 2019 election? With opinion polls that show Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party has a wide lead over Premier Rachel Notley's NDP, and signs that oilpatch leaders are undermining the government's approach to pollution, the pressure is on for Notley's team to show their work on the economy, climate change and renewable energy issues.