Energy Politics

Two days after the U.S. midterm elections, Wall Street was rocked by investors dumping shares worth US$3.2 trillion in a single trading session—the first public signal that something might be fundamentally wrong with the business models of America’s high-tech titans. A Red Wave of debt appears to be coming for...

Climate lawyers' reactions ranged from disappointed to flabbergasted at news that the federal government won't appeal a recent Alberta court decision declaring parts of the Impact Assessment Act unconstitutional.

The Mark Carney government is taking fire from a former federal environment minister and two international think tank reports after asserting in the lead-up to this year’s COP31 climate negotiations that Canada is on track to meet its commitments under the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

The federal major projects agenda takes a starring role, electrification is solidified as the centrepiece of federal decarbonization goals, and heat pumps and building retrofits show up as part of a wider approach to affordability in a federal budget that combines past announcements and new funding to hammer away at...

Democrats swept Congress and won in red states. Here are the races that matter most for decarbonization, disasters, and data centres in the United States.

On Oct. 25, two political movements will vie for control of Brazil in a runoff election, with the fate of the Amazon at stake.

Two-term city councillor Pete Fry will take the helm of British Columbia’s biggest city and become the first Green Party mayor of a major Canadian municipality after Vancouver voters swept away the former ABC administration led by incumbent Ken Sim.

Medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle sales grew “considerably” from 2020 to 2025, with global trends favouring trucks, though in Canada buses and coaches dominated that vehicle category.

50 years ago on Oct. 1, an analysis in the journal Foreign Affairs mapped out a “soft” energy path that would have drastically reduced energy demand, shifted economies off fossil and nuclear energy, handed households and communities more control over their energy future—and concluded in 2025, if it had been...

Prime Minister Mark Carney has confirmed that an oil sands pipeline to the British Columbia coast, now officially titled the Pacific Link Pipeline, will be designated as a project of national interest under the Building Canada Act.

The LNG Canada megaproject in Kitimat, British Columbia, is expected to announce a final investment decision today to double its output to up to 30 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year, the Globe and Mail and Reuters reported Monday.

Some of Canada’s planned major projects are coming up against consent obligations with First Nations, while the federal government offers Indigenous groups a 15% stake in the Trans Mountain Pipeline that some say is much too low.

The U.S. Department of Energy overstepped when it ordered an aging coal-fired power plant in Michigan to stay open past its planned retirement date last year, a federal court ruled in mid-September.

In early September, the organization behind Canada's push for small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) quietly signalled their demise, researcher and author Susan O'Donnell writes in analysis for The Energy Mix.

The Carney government’s plan to subsidize the new West Coast Pipeline and roll back environmental protections is harming its standing with voters in a dozen key ridings in Ontario, according to polling conducted for Environmental Defence Canada and released this week.