Stories byThe Canadian Press

British Columbia Premier Christy Clark blamed climate change for many of the 250 forest fires currently burning across her province, including one that threatened homes in her own Kelowna-area constituency, in the same week her government adopted a liquefied natural gas (LNG) agreement that subsidizes Malaysian gas giant Petronas to...

Nexen Energy’s five-million-litre pipeline spill southeast of Fort McMurray may have begun as far back as June 29, more than weeks before a contractor discovered it while passing by the site, the company disclosed Wednesday.

Nova Scotia and British Columbia will work together to develop tidal power on Canada’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts under a memorandum of understanding signed during the annual energy and mines ministers’ conference in Halifax earlier this week.

Quebec and Ontario are inviting eight Great Lakes states to join the carbon trading market they’ve established with California.

Canada’s clean technology sector is growing faster than the rest of the economy but steadily losing market share against global competitors, Analytica Advisors reported yesterday in its fourth annual industry report card.

The president and CEO of one of Canada’s biggest tar sands/oil sands companies is asking the Alberta government for a tougher price on carbon.

More than 180 eligible voters at a meeting of the Lax Kw'alaams First Nation unanimously rejected a $1.15-billion offer from Malaysian-owned Petronas to consent to a massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) development in their territory.

Funding problems have forced Alberta’s Wood Buffalo Environmental Association to shut down a mobile testing unit that monitored air quality in the area surrounding the province’s tar sands/oil sands operations.

The Canadian government spent $24 million on a two-year advertising blitz to position the country as “America’s best energy partner,” according to documents obtained by CP under access to information laws.

Emissions from ship traffic in the Western Arctic are set to increase almost 600% in the next decade, contributing to both climate change and acid rain, according to a study for the International Council on Clean Transportation.

The Canadian government has been keeping a tight lid on a report that says little is known about the potential toxic impacts of tar sands/oil sands production and transport on oceans, lakes, and rivers.

TransCanada Corporation says it is “standing down” on development of an oil terminal at Cacouna, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, over concerns about habitat for endangered beluga whales.

The cost of the Keystone XL pipeline has increased by half, from $5.4 to $8 billion, in the six years since the project first entered the U.S. regulatory process.

The Canadian and Quebec governments will table legislation this year to jointly develop an estimated 39 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 1.5 billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

A moratorium on natural gas fracking is one of the election promises on the agenda after Brian Gallant’s Liberals formed a majority in the New Brunswick provincial election last week.

The Canadian province of Saskatchewan paid a U.S. lobbyist $3 million to support projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, and Premier Brad Wall says the contract was money well spent.

The U.S. State Department seriously underestimated the climate impact of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline by leaving out a key source of carbon pollution, according to Stockholm Environment Institute researchers. Publishing in the journal Nature Climate Change, Peter Erickson and Michael Lazarus used past research on the connection between energy prices...

A $135,000 public opinion research contract by the Canadian Department of Finance revealed “little enthusiasm” for the Northern Gateway pipeline, the CBC reported July 20. "There is little enthusiasm for the project, even among supporters," according to a report prepared by the Privy Council Office in January, a month ahead...

Visiting Fort McMurray, Alberta for a two-day conference on tar sands/oil sands development and Aboriginal treaties, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu urged Canada to cut its greenhouse gas emissions, the CBC reported. “Only those who don’t want to listen, only those who want to be blind can’t see that we...

Alberta’s renowned Athabasca Glacier is losing more than five metres of ice depth per year and could be gone in a generation, said John Wilmshurst, resource conservation manager at Jasper National Park. The glacier, the largest of six ice sheets in Jasper’s Columbia Icefield, is believed to be the most-visited...