Climate Action

With climate change emerging as a top issue in national elections coming up Sept. 13, thousands of people converged on Stockholm just over a week ago for one of the biggest climate marches in recent memory.

A new joint venture with majority Indigenous ownership has unveiled a general plan to develop an export terminal at the Port of Baie-Comeau, Quebec, to send liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe.

The federal government’s latest move to fast-track the controversial West Coast Pipeline has opened up a new opportunity for opponents to turn up the heat on elected representatives to block the project, one of Canada’s leading climate and energy campaigners said Tuesday.

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...

Community opposition blocked or delayed US$64 billion of data centre projects in the United States in less than a year, yet community concerns do not make the top-four list of considerations for data centre proponents when they pick a location.

The Law Society of British Columbia has voted down a resolution to form a climate advisory committee, marking the third such rejection in four years.

Country musician Corb Lund says he's not giving up the fight after his petition drive to stop new coal mining in Alberta was ruled a failure.

The Carney government is falling far short of its 2030 target—and thereby abdicating its responsibilities under the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act—because of its “comprehensive rollbacks of key measures” in its 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan, says Ecojustice, the legal charity representing the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the federal government.

A Russian court has extended the detention of Daria Egereva, an Indigenous climate advocate jailed on terrorism charges, following a closed-door hearing from which journalists, diplomats, and family members were barred.

"Those guidelines and regulations belong to the people of Canada, not to any party. Any party that overrides those rules and regulations, destroys some of the wealth of Canada..."

If Elections Alberta verifies the required 178,000 signatures, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government would be forced to consider passing a law banning new coal mining or send it to a provincewide referendum.

"Reaching this threshold proves what we’ve known all along—people care deeply about protecting our headwaters, our Rocky Mountains, and our way of life," Lund said, after team collected enough signatures to compel the province to consider banning coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

The federal government has responded to “feedback from thousands” by postponing a series of sweeping environmental rollbacks and extending the comment period for the proposed regulatory changes from June 7 to July 22.

Some of Canada's largest environmental groups were on Parliament Hill Wednesday urging the Liberal government to reverse course on what they're calling rollbacks of environmental policy.

Judges in Amsterdam handed Greenpeace a preliminary victory last week in an anti-intimidation court case, rejecting a request from fossil fuel pipeline company Energy Transfer to toss the complaint out.