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From First Nations communities confronting systemic failures that leave them fleeing ahead of infernos, to firefighters battling misinformation alongside the flames, to smoke-choked urban commentators rebuking Ottawa’s pivot away from serious climate action, anger is running high across Canada as the country’s wildfire season bursts wide open.

Michigan acknowledged the project will have “significant impacts,” including harms to threatened or endangered species and destruction of the ancestral burial grounds of local Tribal Nations. “The magnitude of impacts to recognized historic and cultural values of this proposed project exceeds that of any other that EGLE (the Department of...

No large data centres can be built in New York for up to a year as the state creates rules to protect the environment and its energy grid from the power-hungry facilities fuelling artificial intelligence.

Indigenous leadership and strong policy support have driven substantial progress in reducing reliance on costly diesel in remote communities over the last decade, yet fossil fuels still supply nearly half of all electricity and more than 80% of heat off-grid, finds new analysis by the Pembina Institute.

Vancouver City Council voted Thursday to lift its ban on new residential natural gas connections, after residents successfully rallied against a similar motion in 2024. Critics, including Stand.earth climate campaigner Sunil Singal, call it a massive rollback of Vancouver’s climate policies.

Improving energy efficiency in housing can cut emissions and lower costs, but it requires targeted policy, better coordination, and higher standards, HEC-Montreal’s Pierre-Olivier Pineau writes for Policy Options.

The federal government will address infrastructure gaps across Canada with billions of dollars in funding over the coming decade, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday at a news conference in Brampton, Ontario.

The deepening global energy shock brought on by the American/Israeli war in Iraq had Canadian trade officials scrambling to tie down new export markets. But cooler heads are projecting that higher oil and gas prices won’t last long enough to justify the contracts, while others call for a faster shift...

Representatives from all three Canadian territories say the need to improve their aging electricity grids has reached a critical level requiring billions of dollars from the federal government to update, and in some cases, keep the lights on.

With little progress to report on the $70-billion Wonder Valley artificial intelligence data centre project promised for northern Alberta, celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary has announced he’s developing another AI data centre project in Utah, also named Wonder Valley.

From transmission lines, critical minerals, and solar projects to wind turbines, battery energy storage systems and green hydrogen, First Nations across Canada are building serious equity in the country’s energy transition.

A new report gives a “state of the sector” update for energy efficiency programs in Canada, which represent $5.8 billion in investments and deliver energy savings equal to 5% of all annual residential energy use in the country.

Winter cold and low hydropower reservoirs put a new, billion-dollar transmission line to New England through an early stress test, with Quebec holding back exports after an exceptional storm drove higher electricity demand higher on both ends of the cable.

Mining for energy transition minerals drives deforestation at a scale comparable to mining for coal and other minerals, a new study shows.

As Canadian businesses grapple with the intricacies of climate transition planning, a new report aims to steer the conversation, calling for a careful, deliberative approach that translates climate goals into measurable business strategies.