oil and gas

It took five ballots in the preferential system for Scott Moe, the former environment minister to win the Saskatchewan Party leadership.

One of the country’s most consistently popular premiers will be replaced this weekend and observers say it will be a struggle for the successful candidate to fill the former boss’s shoes.

Refineries in central and Atlantic Canada could save money on oil costs and produce fewer global greenhouse gas emissions if they bought more Canadian crude oil, according to a study by the Canadian Energy Research Institute released Wednesday.

The study, published in this month's edition of The Condor: Ornithological Applications, suggests that the din of industrial activity drowns out important parts of their songs, which may include such vital details as a bird's name or how fit it is for mating.

Nearly two years after being laid off as an electrician in Alberta’s flailing oil and gas sector, the 42−year−old is training to become a wind turbine technician.

Nebraska regulators have declined requests to amend its approval allowing TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline to run through the state.

In this era of climate action, trying to sell natural gas with weak methane regulations is like trying to sell oil that produces higher emissions. The world is less and less interested.

The new chief executive of Cenovus Energy Inc. unveiled plans for a leaner oilsands company Thursday, announcing hundreds of job cuts, lower−than−expected 2018 capital spending and the departure of three key executives.

Alexandra Mendès said she wasn’t trying to hide anything by introducing a motion to move a committee studying fossil fuel subsidies behind closed doors.

For years, amid troubling emission data and oil facility failures, they debated whether to share this information with the public. In the end, it was not shared. Until we published it.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a Facebook post that critics who attribute the proposed Energy East pipeline project's cancellation to government regulation "ignores the obvious."

"Oil is king in a province where resistance is small." - University of Regina journalism students who researched and produced this documentary on Saskatchewan's oil and gas industry.

Saskatchewan's Energy and Resources Minister Nancy Heppner responds to an unprecedented national investigation on industry compliance failures in the province with a letter to the editor.

Where some see only a jumble of rusted pipes and black tanks jutting from a weed-infested yard in a prairie grain field, Tyler Visscher sees opportunity.

British Columbia's newly-minted government is acting in the public's best interests with its stance on Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion, writes economist Robyn Allan.