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Kinder Morgan's Canadian subsidiary, Trans Mountain, says a "calculation error" was the cause of mistakes in a report that failed to identify environmental violations committed during recent construction activity in May. The violations of the federal Fisheries Act have been an ongoing problem at the Westridge Marine Terminal in metro Vancouver, National Observer reported on June 12.

John Gorman, president of the Canadian Solar Industries Association, says the shutting down of Ontario's rebate agency that had been funded by the cap and trade program will put a “chill” on a part of the province’s solar business.

A disappointed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning an intervention in Ontario after Doug Ford announced he was abandoning his province's commitment to a national climate change plan.

Lunenburg town council is taking a stand after recent government approval of British Petroleum’s deepwater drilling project 300 kilometres off the coast from this picturesque Nova Scotia community, a UNESCO world heritage site with an economy dependent on tourism and fish.

An executive responsible for "transparency" at Canada's pipeline regulator, the National Energy Board, has resigned following an unsuccessful hunt for a National Observer reporter’s sources.

Elizabeth May takes questions from National Observer in an interview on June 20, 2018.

Lawyers for Kinder Morgan are denying all allegations that someone tampered with a scientific report that was used to support its proposed route for the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.

The agency offered rebates of up to thousands of dollars for new insulation, replacement windows, solar installations, heat pumps and smart thermostats.

German authorities detained the chief executive of Volkswagen's Audi division, Rupert Stadler, on Monday as part of a probe into the manipulation of emissions controls.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled nine anti-pipeline protesters are guilty of criminal contempt of court for violating an injunction on March 17 while blockading the Kinder Morgan tank farm on Burnaby Mountain. All nine had pleaded not guilty.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she expects to have some "interesting conversations" with Ontario Premier-designate Doug Ford about climate change policies.

The Coldwater Indian Band alleges that someone tampered with evidence submitted by Kinder Morgan to Canada’s pipeline regulator to avoid a costly route change on the company's Trans Mountain expansion project.

The federal government has taken a step towards fulfilling it's promise to get rid of fossil fuel subsidies by agreeing to finally explain how much it actually spends on them.

The new, more stringent standards that begin with the 2021 model year will reduce pollution roughly by six million tonnes a year by 2030, the government says. That’s like taking 1.5 million cars off the road for one year.

Équiterre found that there were more pipeline incidents in 2017 than in any year over the last decade, and incidents on Quebec’s pipelines last year accounted for over half since 2008.