Energy

Finance Minister Bill Morneau will announce as early as Tuesday morning where the government plans to go with Kinder Morgan to ensure the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will be built.

Those of us who dedicate our lives to this effort, in whatever setting we choose to work, do it because we love our families, our children, the lake we swam in as teenagers, the communities we have seen suffer as weather gets more extreme and sea levels rise, writes Catherine Abreu, executive director of Climate Action Network.

Ontario voters go to the polls on June 7 and the results are sure to affect clean tech startups in the province like Jerry Flynn's.

Green Leader Elizabeth May has pleaded guilty to violating a court injunction requested by Texas-based Kinder Morgan.

In the final Ontario 2018 election debate, Doug Ford was asked by a member of the audience whether he believes in global warming, and if so what concrete proposals he has to tackle it. He didn’t provide any detail on how his government might keep emissions in check

Crews using an emergency response trailer and vacuum trucks are working to clean up a crude oil spill at a Kinder Morgan station north of Kamloops, B.C.

Greenpeace International co-executive director Jennifer Morgan wants to see Canada take a new path when it comes to fossil fuels: reject all new oil and gas infrastructure, scrap all subsidies to the industry and commit to a long-term plan that shifts to renewable energy sources.

Internal records from the Environmental Protection Agency reveal the agency had hired a Republican firm last December to “directly support” Administrator Scott Pruitt and senior EPA officials with “an aggressive style of campaign-style” media monitoring. Why?

Finance Minister Bill Morneau is headed west next week with plans to give a speech to a Calgary business audience a day ahead of a deadline set by Kinder Morgan for its controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

Andreas Löschel, chair of the independent Expert Commission monitoring the German government’s low-carbon energy transition policy, said Germany is in a similar position as Canada — trying to decarbonize, while also looking out for workers and communities in fossil fuel industries.

The three main political parties in Ontario should commit to using renewable energy for all the province’s energy needs by 2050, says Green leader Mike Schreiner, pushing to make climate change a larger part of the election campaign.

An organizer of the high school student rally in Vancouver said “that youth value our lands, livelihood and future, over a pipeline that proceeds without Indigenous consent, in disregard of Canada’s climate change commitments and threatens our climate future.”

Texas energy company Kinder Morgan scored a legal victory on Thursday as the B.C. Supreme Court confirmed the provincial government's approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project was valid.

The rising contender in Ontario's provincial election also says she would look to cap electricity company profits and not renew some expiring power contracts.

The gathering coincided with a Canadian Chamber of Commerce "day of support" for the pipeline, consisting of a delegation of business, Indigenous and labour leaders who said they would meet with parliamentarians.