Energy

Texas-based pipeline operator Kinder Morgan took six days to reply to a warning letter from Canada that demanded an immediate response to the company's violations of an environmental law during construction of its Trans Mountain expansion project, a federal spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

Scientist David Suzuki asks "how do we ensure the price of fossil fuels includes the costs of pollution, environmental degradation and climate disruption?" The simplest and proven way, he writes, is to put a price on carbon emissions.

Canada will have a hard time meeting its climate goals at home if it keeps producing its main fossil fuel, oil. But there may be an even bigger story about oil and Canada: the global impact of oilsands growth could undermine international progress just as much.

No one has been arrested since the Crown warned on May 28 that violators attempting to stop construction of the Trans Mountain expansion could face two weeks jail time.

Kinder Morgan put fish, porpoises, sea lions and other marine life in danger near an oil terminal in Vancouver, says a leaked federal warning letter that warns the company could face prosecution for its violations. The letter from the Fisheries and Oceans Department (DFO) notes that the company also went months without filing mandatory construction reports before federal officials noticed.

A spill from Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline late last month was 48 times larger than initially reported, officials said.

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Chrystia Freeland said G7 negotiators are still working to finalize the statement, known as a communiqué, almost halfway through the two-day summit hosted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Quebec.

'No,' came the blunt response from McKenna, speaking to reporters at the G7 summit in Quebec, on the first day of the two-day summit of advanced industrialized nations.

IKEA moved to ban single-use plastics on Friday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked off the G7 summit in Quebec where he is pushing for a charter to reduce plastic waste pollution in the world's oceans.

As someone who feels completely at home in both, the tone of recent relations between our provinces has been unsettling for me. Increasingly we seem to be acting like siblings in a quarrel that is obstinate and escalating.

“I have been Russia’s worst nightmare...but with that being said, Russia should be in this meeting,” Trump said Friday at the White House, according to press reports. “It may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run...they should let Russia back in.”

The U.S. president would have been included in a G7 working session devoted to "climate change and clean energy" on the second day of the summit, officials had confirmed this week.

According to Rachel Notley's budget, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will produce no benefit to oil prices at all — that’s right, no benefit.

Canada's Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr says Texas pipeline operator Kinder Morgan made its own decisions to reward its executives with bonuses and that this was their business, not Canada's.