oil and gas

The broad-based mobilization of citizens is essential to ensuring the implementation of emissions reduction measures are commensurate with the urgency of the crisis, says Bruce Campbell.

Environmentalists say the firm broke Dutch law by expanding its fossil fuel operations.

One oilpatch CEO argues any government investment in capturing carbon dioxide is misguided because it ignores another greenhouse gas, methane, that is a more potent atmospheric heat-trapper over a shorter period and has been proven to be a bigger problem for the industry than previously thought.

Environmental groups say a new ban on a highly polluting shipping fuel in Arctic waters is full of gaps and Canada should not make use of loopholes in the new regulations for heavy fuel oil.

“The Canadian government needs to stop bending over backwards to the big oil lobby and oil-friendly provincial governments at the expense of public health and action on the climate emergency,” says Environmental Defence.

Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said “all drilling projects must respect high environmental standards” after a Bloc Québécois MP raised questions about a government rule change meant to help industry.

Relying on fossil fuels has run its course. Canada and the world must carve a new path forward for the sake of our economy, health and climate, Tzeporah Berman writes.

As part of a series highlighting the work of young people in addressing the climate crisis, writer Patricia Lane interviews Emily Nickerson, director of Publish What You Pay Canada.

Canada and Alberta have signed a deal on caribou protection that gives them years to take action but could allow energy drilling to resume on some ranges.

TMX pipeline, racial divides and the looming war in Blue River, B.C.A minefield of racial divides, violence and human rights violations is about to explode in Blue River, B.C., over the expansion of Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline (TMX).

A report funded by the Canadian liquefied natural gas industry estimates that creating a 56-million-tonnes-per-year LNG industry in B.C. would result in nearly 100,000 jobs.

Energy company BP is writing down its oil and gas assets by as much as $17.5 billion and will review its plans to develop oil wells as the shock to the industry and world demand from the COVID-19 pandemic pushes major producers to consider a faster shift away from fossil fuels.

A federal financing relief package for large Canadian companies was applauded by the oil and gas sector and the Alberta government on Monday, May 11, 2020, despite conditions that could link the aid to an individual company's climate change goals.

Canada’s oil and gas sector was responsible for the largest portion of the country's carbon pollution in 2018, at 193 megatonnes (Mt), or 26 per cent.

The decision by the provincial utility comes as a prominent First Nations leader said Friday that she still has concerns about work camps for resource projects continuing to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic.