Climate Litigation

With as many as 250 of the world’s top investors converging on Toronto next week for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit, news reports say pipelines, nuclear plants, railways, AI data centres, and more will be among the 167 domestic projects on offer.

Pipelines, nuclear plants, mining operations, railways, AI data centres, and more are among the 167 projects on offer.

The latest analysis from 440 Megatonnes shows that the country’s current climate policy package would leave emissions stubbornly high through mid-century.

Ahead of the final provincial town hall to address Alberta’s growing data centre industry, one Grande Prairie resident wants to see details of a land purchase agreement signed between a municipality aiming to host the “world’s largest AI data centre park” and O’Leary Digital Ltd. (ODL), the company planning to build it.

As environmental regulators reconsider permits issued for Enbridge’s tunnel project in the Straits of Mackinac, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is urging CEO Gregory Ebel to shut down the pipeline within months.

Experts say the investment tax credits meant to spur Canada’s clean economy are being processed too slowly to help companies that need support addressing climate change and weathering the tariff war with the United States.

The federal government is taking criticism for assigning environmental reviews for pipelines, in situ oil sands projects, fossil-powered power plants, transmission lines, and offshore renewable energy projects to an agency that may lack the expertise to assess their impact—as well as some “inside baseball” teasing for a typo in the media release announcing the change.

With every corner of the global market seeing new potential for clean energy development, a group of women working across the Canadian financial sector are actively deploying billions of dollars in capital into climate solutions—even if decarbonization isn’t always the motivation that seals the deal.

Building efficiency into Canada’s existing infrastructure would cut energy costs by over 60%, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and deliver economic returns in all parts of the country faster than any other energy megaproject. The numbers make the case.

Methane emissions cuts should be treated as a distinct priority alongside carbon dioxide emissions, researchers argue, because valuing methane reductions in terms of “carbon dioxide equivalent” misses some key points.

Two Alberta landowners say the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) is breaking the law by not collecting enough money from industry to cover cleanup costs for a ballooning number of orphan oil and gas sites across the province.

Europe needs productivity—and cheap, abundant electricity can help deliver it, writes Michael Barnard, editor of The Future is Electric.

Interview | It’s time to look beyond the United States and catch up to the rest of the world, the former environment minister says.

Last week’s Canada’s Changing Climate Report is a call for faster action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and shift the economy to clean electricity, analysts say, after the government reported that average warming will reach 3.5° to 5°C by 2100 across Canada and more than 10°C in the Arctic.

“At least at the macro level, Republican-led and governed states are not only open to but embracing solar energy as a technology,” Tim Pawlenty, CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association and a former Republican governor of Minnesota, tells Grist.

In a shock for Germany’s political establishment, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which rejects climate action, scored a landslide victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt over the weekend. While the immediate effects on the country’s energy transition are likely to remain very limited, the longer-term consequences could be significant.

Canadians are facing a housing crisis. The solution is an industry that has been ignored for too long: modular housing. It presents a massive opportunity for jobs, the economy, and building smarter, better homes.

With the federal government kicking off a design competition to revitalize the Prime Minister’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, a local architecture firm is already on record with a concept for a “radical rehabilitation” to make the building a showcase for heritage preservation and “zero-carbon sustainability performance.”

Canadian law protects investors who incorporate climate risk, a new report finds, but U.S. politics is still influential.

With Nova Scotia getting closer to inviting bids for Canada’s first offshore wind farms, a new poll says nearly three-quarters of Nova Scotians “hold a positive impression of offshore wind energy” and up to a two-thirds majority back the Wind West project—with some concerns still to be addressed.

A slew of opinion pieces suggests Ontario’s Ford government is going the wrong way by ripping out bike lanes that cost Toronto $27 million to build, and raising questions about whether it should be focusing on more pressing challenges: an ongoing trade war with the United States, and the debt-burdened province’s existing spending commitments.

El Niños are more than 36% stronger than they were before the industrial age began in the mid 1800s, with a 16% jump in just the last 40 years showing that the increase is accelerating, according to a study in the journal Science.

After high winds ripped out trees and tore down power lines and torrential rain left thousands without power for days, an expert says officials need to better disclose flood risks and focus investments in vulnerable neighbourhoods.

New York’s attempt to make fossil fuel-producing industries pay into a $75 billion fund to repair the damage wrought by climate change was struck down by a federal judge, who said the sweeping law reaches beyond a state’s responsibility and into an area of federal interest.

A leading United Nations agency stands accused of issuing a “call to apathy, not to arms”, with a report that confirms humanity will overshoot the 1.5°C global warming threshold in the 2015 Paris climate agreement but understates the potential to phase out fossil fuels and bring emissions to net-zero by 2050, independent analysts say.

The federal government is extending the suspension of federal fuel excise taxes until the new year to help Canadians feeling the pressure from higher energy costs caused by instability in the Middle East.

More than 26 million Canadians in more than 930 communities, more than 60% of the population, have personally faced the impacts of climate change so far this year, the #ElbowsUp for Climate campaign reports in an analysis released this week.

Prime Minister Mark Carney may be the smartest politician in Ottawa (and not just in his own mind) after suspending the Canada-U.S. trade talks on August 21, then winning three byelections big-time on August 31.

Canada’s National Electricity Strategy is meant to double the capacity of Canada’s grid, but the plan needs to shift away from polluting fossil fuels and expensive nuclear power to a much stronger focus on renewables, Adamant writes. Not just doubling, but tripling clean power is the single most direct step Canada can take to keep energy costs down for every household and business for decades to come.

A Quebec-based company’s home battery system is now part of at least two major utility experiments testing electric vehicles as mobile power sources for the United States grid.

Set to become the last coal-dependent province in Canada, Saskatchewan is choosing the most expensive electricity option out to 2050, one that stands to squeeze household and business budgets just as Canada faces mounting economic pressure from Donald Trump’s trade war, warn experts at the Calgary-based Pembina Institute.

Errors including botched currency conversions led the British Columbia government to overstate its forecasted natural gas revenues by about $1.46 billion over five fiscal years, officials confirmed on Tuesday.

There’s no likely need for Alberta’s proposed West Coast Pipeline, as the rise of electric vehicles and a faster global energy transition drive down future oil demand and prices at a faster rate than industry and governments may have expected, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) concludes in an analysis released this morning.

NextEra Energy, the world’s largest publicly traded electricity company, has systematically erased or downplayed its clean energy messaging since Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, a potent example of the industry’s retreat from environmental positioning during Trump’s second term.

Even as she insists Meta’s massive new artificial intelligence data centre north of Edmonton won’t raise electricity prices, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is advising concerned Albertans to “lock in a price” on their power bills before the U.S.-based tech behemoth connects to the provincial grid.

The largest planned AI data center in New Jersey is being accused of violating federal law after a Floodlight visual investigation found the site running dozens of unpermitted gas-powered generators.

The product that was supposed to redefine both roofing and home solar never moved beyond expensive niche status. Does the new plan reflect lessons learned?

Artificial intelligence’s wildly fluctuating power demand is creating technical challenges for data centres, grid operators, and potentially, even energy users at home.

The economic case is strong for a national electricity grid in Canada that links everyone to clean, affordable power. Today, provinces trade more power with the United States than they do with one another.

Canadian businesses caught in Donald Trump’s trade war can find real savings in strategic energy management, says one energy efficiency policy expert. But he warns that federal funding for this work is set to expire in March 2027.

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.

Government lawyers argued the Federal Court doesn’t have the power to order the government to take steps to meet its emissions targets.

Tech billionaires say they want to make life better on Earth. Here’s what they’re not talking about.

The United Nations projects that the amount of emissions spewed into the atmosphere from air conditioning use will rise from 4.5 billion to 7.2 billion tons in the next 25 years or so.

At least 160 people are dead, hundreds of tourists and local residents including 24 Canadians are missing, and early analysis is pointing to climate change as a likely contributing factor after a towering flash flood swept through a border area of Nepal and Tibet Wednesday.

U.S.-based ProEnergy must meet 45 conditions to build and operate the plant, which will primarily use U.S.-supplied gas but can switch to diesel. Environmental groups warn of ecological damage and deeper fossil-fuel dependence, including potential pressure to lift New Brunswick’s fracking ban.

As a Canadian company appears to sidestep international law and works in tandem with the Trump administration for a deep-sea mining licence, legal experts and activists are urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to censure its actions and publicly reassert Canada’s position supporting a moratorium on mining the fragile ecosystems.

Under our feet, the Earth is generating a constant supply of clean heat that has been building for four billion years: geothermal energy. We now have the technology to tap it at scale. Geothermal is being used worldwide to generate electricity and warm buildings around the clock, with no fuel costs and virtually no emissions. But it is almost completely absent from the Canadian energy landscape

This summer saw roadways from Manitoba to Texas to the West Midlands in the United Kingdom coming dangerously to pieces, buckling and melting, as temperatures soared. Climate-responsive road design, and sharp emissions cuts, are essential to preserve safe roads for drivers, experts say.

Heat pumps are becoming smaller and easier to install as new options hit the market in the form of minisplits and window-mounted options. But in the absence of government support, renters still face hurdles to get them into their homes.

New Brunswick’s Liberal government is considering whether it should drop its longstanding ban on natural gas fracking, saying it’s looking for ways to boost its economy and secure Canada’s energy independence.

Australian farmers are turning to renewables to “take back control” of their bottom lines—avoiding volatile fuel and fertilizer prices, growing their local economies, and adding new streams of revenue on their properties.

A coordinated national wildfire agency could bring provinces, territories, Indigenous nations, and wildfire organizations together under shared training standards while allowing regions to adapt to local conditions, says Indigenous wildland firefighter Chad Thomas.

Donald Trump’s expanding trade war could be a catalyst for Canada to speed up its energy transition, diversify its trade, and reinforce its economic sovereignty—as long as federal and provincial governments embrace a “crossroads” moment and double down on the clean technologies that are already dominating global energy investments, a panel of climate finance and trade specialists has told The Energy Mix.

A new map of data centres in Alberta shows proposed AI facilities demanding more than 100 times the electricity used by existing ones in the province, a spike that comes with significant emissions impact.

Biden’s incentives gave Qcells a leg up. Now Trump’s tariffs may help it thrive.

Ottawa and Manitoba are eyeing an expanded Arctic trade route, including for potential fossil fuel exports to Europe, through the Port of Churchill as sea ice declines. But experts told The Energy Mix that less ice doesn’t necessarily eliminate the challenges of moving more cargo through Hudson Bay.

The climate-friendly appliances are becoming the norm among U.S. home builders. Here are the factors driving the shift.

Two Innu band councils in Quebec have rejected last week’s non-binding agreement between Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the federal government to hugely expand hydroelectric generation along the Churchill River and build regional transmission capacity, saying they were never consulted.

The first progress report on Canada’s climate adaptation plan reveals an urgent need to focus on actual results as climate-driven extreme weather impacts ramp up, says the Canadian Climate Institute’s director of adaptation.

It’s widely known Canada is facing both an affordable housing crisis and a climate crisis, and the worst possible outcome is solving one to punish the other. If we make the wrong choices today, we risk locking in generations of unnecessary emissions, future maintenance and retrofit costs, infrastructure strain, and climate vulnerability, writes NAIMA Canada’s Jay Nordenstrom.

South Africa’s top court has blocked Shell’s offshore oil and gas exploration permit in the Eastern Cape, ending a five-year legal battle in a ruling that rejected the argument that belated community consultation could fix the permit’s unlawful origins and cited climate change as part of a “global reckoning” in international law.

Alberta’s technology minister faced a firing line of community fury Thursday at a government town hall on its plan for artificial intelligence data centres. “I’m sorry to hear that you have such a jaded view of the government,” Nate Glubish responded, to boos from the crowd.

Disrupted treatment, unstable housing, and lasting trauma can compound a disaster’s toll—a pattern now emerging in communities recovering from Hurricane Helene.

The season of extreme weather holds lessons for how the continent can climate-proof its energy systems.

Only the third such project to hook up to the U.S. grid, it comes as surging electricity demand drives interest in the source of around-the-clock clean power.

As another overheated summer devastates swathes of the northern hemisphere, sustainability experts in both Canada and the UK are urging policymakers, financial markets, and investors to act on “irrefutable” evidence that economic well-being everywhere now depends upon swift climate action.

The European Union’s carbon border tax will add new compliance costs for Canadian businesses that trade certain products, especially steel and aluminum, to the bloc.

A staged re-entry is unfolding for residents of Summerland, B.C., while the wildfire that forced them out as it exploded on the night of Aug. 7 continues to burn out of control away from the community.

Canadians won’t be able to respond to climate change without taking control of our own economy and confronting inequality, Social Capital Partners Jon Shell says in a feature interview.

Public opposition to artificial intelligence (AI) data centre projects is surging across Canada and the United States, as outrage over the projects’ energy and water use, noise pollution, carbon footprint—and their proponents’ habit of often ignoring or flouting community opposition—unites voters across the political spectrum.

Ford Motor Company is betting that the Fathom, its new US$30,000 all-electric pickup, will be a turning point that makes electric vehicles affordable to mainstream buyers.

At outdoor movie nights across British Columbia this summer, the power behind the screen, the speakers, and even the popcorn machine came from a pair of electric pickup trucks parked nearby.

NDP parliamentary leader Don Davies wants the Competition Bureau to investigate whether Prime Minister Mark Carney’s own words are proof the government’s advertising on clean energy infrastructure violates the government’s law against greenwashing.

Emails show that as wildfire approached the site of one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in U.S. history, state and local officials had to move quickly to assess how safe the air was amid radiation concerns.

Unseasonably warm weather that rapidly melts snowpack is becoming more widespread in the Western United States and happening earlier in the year.

A billion-dollar power plant meant for an artificial intelligence (AI) data centre proposed in Olds, Alberta, is “not in the public interest,” the provincial utility regulator ruled Monday.

“Today’s decision means O’Leary’s group lost on every ground,” said Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Chief Sheldon Sunshine, as Alberta judge allows judicial review to proceed.

The Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, and federal government have reached a tentative agreement for up to 14,000 megawatts of hydropower development and 2,000 MW of wind, in what Prime Minister Mark Carney described as the largest clean energy investment in North America.

Canadian drivers will shell out an extra $53.8 billion in fuel costs, and additional “climate change-induced global damages” will hit $94.2 billion, as a result of the Carney government’s decision to repeal the federal Electric Vehicle Availability Standard while delaying implementation of more stringent rules for vehicle tailpipe emissions, the government calculated in a Canada Gazette notice announced Friday.

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.

Alberta’s oil sands facilities on average will pay less than $2 per barrel under an updated carbon pricing schedule, effectively making the much-maligned “carbon tax” a marginal cost for producers, finds a new report.

Metro Vancouver is spending billions to switch buildings, vehicles, and the power system to cleaner electricity, but is missing an opportunity to grow local businesses and jobs around the transition, finds a new report by the Zero Emissions Innovation Centre (ZEIC).

Earthjustice is suing the United States government a month after the Trump administration announced plans to auction off massive sections of water for potential deep-sea mining.

One senior couple says they would have “slept right through” the Bald Range wildfire evacuation had their neighbours not rung the doorbell. Other older adults face isolation, mobility challenges, and health conditions worsened by smoke—factors that make getting them to safety both harder and more urgent.

If built, the 1000-kilometre pipeline will run through Montana and Wyoming and is one of three proposed pipeline legs connecting oil sands in Alberta to trading hub in Oklahoma. 

Canada’s forests are shifting from a carbon sink to a carbon source, driven by wildfire disturbance, reveal carbon cycle models that better represent Canadian landscapes than earlier estimates.

Climate change arrived this summer for the beloved TV characters and landscapes of Sesame Street, in a special episode where Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and friends have to get ready for extreme weather, then learn to help each other through the aftermath.

The first legal challenge against a 107-kilometre road into Ontario’s Ring of Fire region is raising questions about whether piece-by-piece assessments of new mining infrastructure will accurately capture its cumulative impact.

With the United States energy transition and clean finance communities flexing their political muscle, and anti-renewables incumbents paying the price in their Congressional primaries, a new report says the high energy bills brought on by Donald Trump’s “energy and AI dominance agenda” may be toxic for Republicans when American voters go to the polls for midterm elections in just 82 days.

ACORN is eyeing air conditioning for low-income residents in Ottawa—but has been concerned that more efficient heat pumps are priced out of reach for now.

Think of a thermal wall at one end of a greenhouse, designed to insulate from the north winds and store passive solar energy that streams in during the day.

The Greenland government has issued a “strong warning” after a U.S. oil company with ties to Donald Trump moved drilling equipment into position for a project that hasn’t received official approval, in what is being interpreted as a possible new front in Trump’s attempts to annex the autonomous and self-governing territory.

Chinese automakers are increasingly shifting from exporting vehicles to building them in Africa, betting that rapid urbanization and supportive policies will make the continent a major growth market.

The Philippines is making it easier for households and businesses to install small-scale solar as America’s war on Iran drives up energy prices across Southeast Asia.

So much unused space could be repurposed to generate electricity: parking lots, rooftops, balconies, and now, the ground between railroad tracks.

As Antora boots up a giant thermal battery system in South Dakota, fresh funds will help it build a second U.S. factory and more large-scale projects.

The United States Department of Energy has cancelled or stalled funding for thousands of projects that would improve the stressed grid—and not just in blue states.

The Alberta county council that granted permits for Meta’s new $13-billion, climate-polluting, gas-powered artificial intelligence (AI) data centre has declared an agricultural disaster due to record-setting extreme weather attributed largely to climate change.

Canada’s biggest oil companies are cashing in on Donald Trump’s war on Iran, with the four biggest oil sands producers reporting a staggering $13.3 billion in profits in the three months ending June 30. And economist Jim Stanford says Canadian households and businesses are paying the price.

A group that represents numerous First Nations across British Columbia is calling on Ottawa and Alberta’s government to halt efforts to advance the West Coast pipeline, saying expanding the oil industry will accelerate climate change and disasters.

While Canada’s clean energy sector is expected to grow in the coming years, the workforce remains persistently inequitable.

“The kindest-looking land is growing the sharpest teeth,” writes India’s Theresa Ronnie on The Climate Desk. “We have not updated the story we tell about these places, but the map has changed. That gap, for now, is where people are dying.”

Canada’s sustainable finance sector is at loggerheads over the inclusion of oil and gas in the new net-zero investment framework.

Prices for major commodity foods rose from June to July, says the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s latest Food Price Index, while Oxford Economics reports food price inflation due to extreme weather in Europe and the United Kingdom.

A divided federal appeals court says the Trump administration improperly terminated billions of dollars in funds to boost clean energy projects, handing a win to a coalition of nonprofits picked to run the Biden-era effort.

“If you replace the word cod with the word tiger, people would be outraged at the declines,” says Jonny Hughes, senior policy manager at a UK ocean conservation charity.

Fossil fuel-driven climate change made the extreme fire weather conditions behind this summer’s ferocious wildfires in Ontario and the Northwest Territories roughly twice as likely to occur, concludes new research from Imperial College London’s World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative. 

A procedural ruling by the Court of Appeal of Ontario has brought the Doug Ford government one step closer to a final judgement on its moves to gut the province’s emissions reduction target after it took office in 2018.

Climate change might not be a top priority for U.S. voters, but keeping quiet about it may backfire.

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.

Proposed changes to Canada’s major projects permitting process could speed up approvals at the expense of protections for the environment and First Nations, critics warn.

A document outlining a course for Canada’s agriculture policies emphasizes economic growth and resilience, but Canada still needs a “major overhaul” of how it helps farmers with business risks, says the leader of a national farming coalition.

As gasoline shortages plague Russia, many people blame local authorities rather than openly discussing the war that has strained the country’s supplies.

Five breakthrough battery technologies are bringing long-term storage to market.

Now the British Columbia town is planning for a future built on clean energy.

Construction is underway on a US$1.7 billion solar and battery storage project in Texas that will turn existing coal mining land into a hub of clean energy generation.

Record heat, wildfire threats, and an unprecedented stage modification highlighted the growing challenge global warming poses to endurance sports.

As devastating wildfires continue to burn across swaths of Canada, the United States, and Europe, oil major Shell posted $9.8 billion in second quarter profits, more than double its earnings from this time last year.

In a landmark victory for Michigan First Nations and others working to defend the Great Lakes ecosystem, the Michigan Supreme Court has rescinded a permit critical to Enbridge Inc.’s plan to replace a section of its Line 5 pipeline through under the Straits of Mackinac with a new subterranean tunnel for oil and natural gas liquids.

The proportion of Canadians who identify environment and climate change as a top-three concern has jumped 50% in the last four months, from 14 to 21%, as a summer of epic wildfires, heat domes, and flooding creates what the Angus Reid Institute calls “thorny challenges” for Prime Minister Mark Carney and his government.

A series of four brutal heat waves so far this summer has brought down water levels in two of Europe’s mightiest rivers, impeding coal and diesel resupply in Germany, shutting down nuclear reactors in Hungary and Romania, and prompting Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar to declare an imminent crisis amid spiking demand for air conditioning.

A class action lawsuit by residents who faced heavy flooding twice in two years claims the cities of Montreal and Dollard-des-Ormeaux were negligent in not installing measures to prevent its reoccurrence. Legal and economic experts say the question of who’s responsible and to what extent, combined with the difficulty of proving cities could prevent damage from what used to be considered a 1,000-year storm, will make it difficult for residents to win.

German utility Uniper has locked down a formal long-term agreement to purchase liquefied natural gas from the $30-billion Ksi Lisims project planned for the northern British Columbia coast.

A strengthening El Niño that has already broken records for intensity at its early stages will likely spark even more wild weather worldwide as it grows, “adding fuel to a planet already on fire,” United Nations officials warned Friday.

Canada’s three Maritime provinces agreed in July to work together on their future electricity needs as the country looks to bolster its energy security.

Oil companies face new legal challenges, such as a recent suit for wrongful death, and older cases that are creeping toward trial, Grist reports.

Eight all-electric vehicles and two hybrids have nabbed the top 10 spots in the Autotrader online marketplace’s list of the United Kingdom’s fastest-selling used cars for July.

Climate change’s fingerprints are all over the extreme fire weather that sparked the past week’s devastating wildfires in Spain and France and has spiked Southern Europe’s burning over the past eight years, two new studies conclude.

While major emitting countries say they can’t be held accountable for climate harm that predates their awareness of the risks, a new report from the U.S. Center for International Environmental Law shows their governments knew decades earlier than they’re now claiming.

One year after the world’s highest court ruled that countries have a legal duty to fight climate change, Canada’s federal and provincial governments are expanding fossil fuels anyway, a move that could leave them legally exposed.

As a weather service in the United States combats mis/disinformation about wildfires in Canada, a Canadian economist is urging provincial and federal leaders to weigh the mounting cost of wildfire smoke and other public health impacts against any benefits, real or imagined, of fast-tracking new fossil fuel infrastructure.

A Montreal start-up says it is close to scaling up a cleaner, cheaper, more efficient process for delivering highly-purified graphite for electric vehicle batteries, drones, and other applications.

The federal government should provide what amounts to bridge financing to help provinces rapidly build out the country’s electricity systems, without today’s ratepayers seeing higher costs to underwrite a project with longer-range benefits, the Canadian Climate Institute concludes in a policy brief co-authored with energy transition analyst and BloombergNEF founder Michael Liebreich.

Researchers say mandatory corporate reporting would kick-start non-U.S. investment.

Worsening droughts and heatwaves are pushing Canadian farmers to switch to new practices to keep moisture in the soil and protect livestock.

Vertical solar panels, which promise to overcome the winter troubles plaguing their more horizontal relatives, are being trialed on a Vancouver science museum’s rooftop.

Without a plan to remove the criminal gangs and Colombian guerrillas that control gold mines in southern Venezuela, new foreign investments might worsen a vicious cycle of environmental destruction, ethnocide, and bribery, local advocacy groups tell The Energy Mix.

Measures of what researchers call “excess mortality”—the difference between the normally expected number of deaths and the actual number—spiked in late June, when parts of Europe experienced record temperatures.

The ocean absorbs 90% of the excess heat from global warming. It doesn’t all stay there.

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.

As experts warn that misinformation and disinformation are existential threats to Canadian democracy, communities watching hyperscale data centres move into their neighbourhoods say they are being stonewalled by local leaders while the federal government lags on regulation.

Hot on the heels of a new round of 50% tariffs on a wide range of Canadian imports, scheduled to take effect Aug. 19, Donald Trump has instructed his administration to look into a separate punitive measure in response to wildfire smoke crossing the border.

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 Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy) has reviewed,” officials wrote, while explaining their decision to approve the permit.

Instead of propping up sunsetting industries, Canada needs a hard pivot to large-scale, transformative, distributed energy megaprojects.

The expense involved in retrofitting Toronto’s considerable stock of aging high-rise apartments is one longstanding obstacle to getting a maximum heat bylaw on the books, writes the Toronto Star. Tenant fears of steep rent increases when landlords pass on the costs are another obstacle.

Solar installations across Africa hit a record last year, but international lenders are charging African countries far more for capital than borrowers elsewhere—a gap that could stifle the continent’s clean energy growth.

China brought the world’s first large scale “flow” battery project online earlier this year, and developers in Europe are racing to build even bigger ones—signs that the energy storage battery technology is showing real-world promise.

A Leger poll of 1,505 Canadians found 81% worry AI data centres will raise electricity bills and 79% fear environmental harm, while opinion is split on building them domestically for data sovereignty.

The Quebec branch of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society said it was “perplexed” by a new provincial-federal agreement to streamline the assessment process for major infrastructure and resource development projects.

Some U.S. lawmakers on Thursday threatened to sanction Canada—or even possibly annex it entirely—as they raged about wildfire smoke blanketing many parts of Canada and swaths of the United States.

From Northern Ontario First Nations to downtown Toronto to British Columbia, Canadians are facing down the impacts of a summer wildfire season in full swing.

The Canadian Climate Institute’s Principal Economist, Dave Sawyer, estimates average new emissions from the oil sands at 20 million tonnes per year, well above the total the industry is offering to capture by the mid-2030s or even 2045.

New AI-driven forecasts can tell you when dangerous weather is coming, Prof. Catherine Nakalembe writes for Yale Climate Connections. However, the barrier to saving lives is rarely data accuracy, but the absence of the policy infrastructure required to act on it.

Climate change has been intensifying extreme weather patterns, and recent research shows that existing wind farms may not be prepared for what is to come, the author of a 2023 study tells The Energy Mix. A 2025 study suggests that calculations used to prepare wind farms for local conditions going out of date over the course of a turbine’s lifespan.

The region has added dozens of turbines off the East Coast since last summer. They and other clean energy sources cut the need for oil power in a summer heat wave.

A new social media platform in Europe, W Social, has gone online with a mission to counter mis- and disinformation in all its forms, including climate change denial and myth-making.

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.

Supply concentration, especially in refining, as well as proliferating export controls, declining investment, and supply chain and work force bottlenecks are putting critical mineral security at risk for most countries, the International Energy Agency warns in its latest annual Global Critical Minerals Outlook.

A bill aimed at increasing the number of wood pellet mills in Louisiana sailed through the state’s legislature last month—despite some lawmakers, including the bill’s sponsor, acknowledging they know little about the controversial industry.

Multi-billion-dollar Pathways project will capture the equivalent of 6.5% of oil sands’ current production emissions in 2035, and won’t touch the 80% of emissions in each barrel that are exported and then burned—if the project is ever finalized.

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.

Global oil demand and natural gas trading are both set to decline this year, international analysts say, less than two weeks after Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged to triple Canada’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports and Energy Minister Tim Hodgson declared a $43.7-billion oil pipeline a “good investment” for taxpayers.

In a feature interview with The Energy Mix, philanthropist Joannah Lawson finds hope in recent gains in the energy transition and regenerative agriculture—and stresses an intergenerational duty to help those solutions succeed and scale up.

Canada’s national development banks pumped US$13.5 billion per year into fossil fuels between 2022 and 2024, more than any other G20 country, even as such banks across the group sit on billions in “untapped potential” for clean energy, a new Oil Change International report finds.

Despite research showing that Europe has reduced its energy use by almost 30% over the last two decades, and could cut 70% of its remaining natural gas demand by 2040, a Danish engineering and manufacturing firm with operations in more than a dozen countries is still seeing a gap in the way energy efficiency is seen and adopted, compared to new sources of energy supply.

A new industry report finds Canada could see $7 billion more invested in electric vehicle charging infrastructure by 2035 if Ottawa adopted a stronger emissions standard for light-duty vehicles, rather than a weaker one.

A new report finds the United States’ clean energy buildout is still largely on track despite Trump administration rollbacks, but another shows those same rollbacks have already cost the economy nearly 470,000 jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars.

Germany passed a reform of the country’s heating law that removes a mandatory renewable energy share for new heating systems, allowing homeowners to keep installing gas and oil boilers, if they are operated with an increasing share of climate-friendly fuels.

BOGOTÁ (AP) — Colombia’s outgoing environment minister warned Friday that the incoming government could reverse the country’s recent climate and conservation gains, pointing to its support for fracking and fossil fuel development and what she described as climate skepticism among some officials.

The advisory group mandated last April to set the criteria for green or transition investments under Canada’s forthcoming sustainable finance taxonomy has opened a one-month feedback period to get public and expert comment on how those categories should be designed.

The Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) plans to temporarily more than double the power it had allocated to new, large data centres on the provincial electricity grid, even though it acknowledges the move will raise prices for consumers.

Renewable energy helped to avoid an estimated US$480 billion globally in fossil fuel costs in 2025, finds a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), while avoiding 8.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.

As the Greenhouse Gas Protocol reviews feedback on proposed amendments to its flagship Scope 2 emissions guidance, the Business Renewables Centre-Canada is warning that abrupt implementation in Canada, where corporate procurement of renewable energy already struggles against infrastructure and regulatory gaps, could stall the very momentum the amendments are meant to accelerate.

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.

Trans Mountain Corp. says it has reached a settlement agreement on tolls that oil sands producers pay to use the Trans Mountain Pipeline.

From land fraud to green lobbying, Brazil’s carbon markets are struggling to deliver what they promise—just as the country tries to lead on climate finance.

Global plans to drill and expand fossil fuel projects overlap with marine protected areas and important fishing grounds, a new report finds.

Spanning 110 quadrillion kilometers, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are critical allies of plants. They also transport an enormous amount of planet-warming carbon.

As Alberta makes plans to send oil east and west in two new pipelines across Canada, an international oil major abandons its stake in the Bay du Nord oil project off Newfoundland and Labrador.

Nova Scotia has conditionally approved its largest wind energy project to date, an onshore wind farm that will help power a green hydrogen and ammonia facility planned for Cape Breton.

Nearly three dozen countries pledged to pick up the pace on energy efficiency improvements last week, during an International Energy Agency (IEA) conference in Montreal where much of the top-line messaging was about energy security through oil and gas exports—and Canada as a preferred supplier.

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.

Fewer than half of Canadians know a heat pump can heat a home in cold weather, and just over half don’t realize it can cool one too. Clean Energy Canada’s answer to the awareness problem: get Canadians talking about it at summer barbecues.

The World Bank has axed a climate financing target under pressure from the Trump administration, but continues to support new projects that help address climate change.

Energy markets may be in turmoil in most of the world, but in Quebec, renewable-energy companies are booming. For Longueuil-based Innergex, diversifying its outputs and looking beyond Quebec has been key to its success.

Clear-cut logging can turn what was once a 50-year event into a flood recurring every three years, with the largest and rarest floods showing the greatest sensitivity to forest disturbance.

Researchers are calling for cities to double down on one of the simplest yet most powerful solutions to many problems.

The fastest-growing gas exporter in the United States leveraged the Iran war and permissive regulations to earn bumper profits. But people in Cameron, Louisiana, say the firm’s operations have upended their lives.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney have announced a route and a tentative partnership for a new pipeline from Alberta’s oil sands to the British Columbia coast, with taxpayers picking up the lion’s share of the cost.

The record-shattering wave of heat and humidity blanketing parts of Quebec, Ontario, and the United States, affecting Canada Day celebrations in the nation’s capital and World Cup matches in both countries, “would have been virtually impossible in a climate without fossil fuel use,” Oxford University-based World Weather Attribution (WWA) has concluded.

Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline Corp. and two partners have given the go-ahead for the Greenlight Electricity Centre, a natural gas plant serving a data centre customer in Sturgeon County north of Edmonton.

A new comparison finds B.C. and Alberta’s mere 100-metre buffers lag far behind California’s 975 metres and Colorado’s 610, offering residents comparatively little protection.

Alberta’s energy retrofit industry could generate C$5.8 billion in GDP growth annually and sustain 24,000 jobs while boosting affordability and climate resilience, but is being held back by a lack of coordinated action to secure supply chains and support work force development, the Pembina Institute finds in a new report.

This is what it looks like when a world dismisses the climate warnings for decades…

As wildfire season ramps up, a global coalition combating climate disinformation warns that climate “disinfluencers” are spreading falsehoods online, and that social media companies could do more to prevent them from disrupting access to critical information.

In the face of rising climate disinformation in Canadian municipalities, a new digital tool aims to streamline climate planning decisions and show their impact.

A small team of laid-off United States government scientists has rebuilt a climate information website that the Trump administration took offline last year, recruiting 80 volunteer researchers and re-linking more than a thousand reports and datasets.

Despite the appeal, electric bikes have struggled to find traction. Battery swapping is changing that.

Extreme floods that once swamped coastal communities only rarely are becoming far more common as climate change caused by humans pushes sea levels higher, according to new research.

Despite public opposition and evidence that battery energy storage systems would cost less, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick approved power plants that will burn gas and diesel for the next quarter century. Now, Prince Edward Island faces the same choice.

Up to 1,000 construction jobs and about 100 full-time operating positions in Alberta’s clean economy are at risk as an Edmonton-based start-up scrambles to adapt to an unintended consequence of the recent industrial carbon pricing deal between the federal and Alberta governments.

The federal government is earning praise for its first low-income energy efficiency initiative in 20 years, after announcing this morning that Quebec, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island have signed on to the Canada Greener Homes Affordability Program (CGHAP).

The statistical and public health work of tallying heat-related deaths could take weeks or months. But it’s already apparent that the toll exacted by the intense, unrelenting extreme temperatures was terrible in France, the first country hit from mid-June, particularly among older people who died at home.

“Cities across the world are still preparing for the heat that we’re experiencing today.”

A stifling heat dome that sat over much of British Columbia five years ago is being remembered by the provincial health officer as traumatic for people who lost loved ones and overwhelming for those trying to care for those affected. 

While efforts to weaken the EU’s methane regulation have intensified, with 12 EU governments requesting a three-year delay in implementation, Oslo-based Rystad Energy has issued several research-backed statements insisting there’s no risk to energy supplies with full implementation Jan. 1 as planned.

Extreme heat kills more people each year than gun violence, says Rob Thornton, president and CEO of the International District Energy Association. That’s one of the reasons district energy “is really surging right now.”

Three leading clean energy technology companies—Sunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home—say they can free up more than 16,000 megawatts of grid capacity for data centres and utilities by combining their networks into what could become the country’s largest virtual power plant.

The complex goal of getting the marine shipping industry down to zero environmental impacts by 2050 means weighing trade-offs for each situation rather than reaching for a single fix, and a new decision-support framework aims to make that easier.

Video from day one of the IEA conference in Montréal, including the federal government’s Greener Homes Grant announcement. Stay tuned for live coverage from the floor of the conference.

Ontario First Nations leadership declared an historic breakthrough and nuclear critics warned of risks ahead Tuesday after Williams Treaties First Nations (WTFN) and the Ontario and federal governments announced a roughly $715-million investment in small modular reactor (SMR) development at the Darlington nuclear station.

Global electric vehicle sales are set to reach 23 million in 2026, an increase of 11% from last year, accounting for just over a quarter of passenger car sales overall, BloombergNEF predicts. Just over half of all car sales will be EVs by 2035, BNEF says, with growth sustained by falling battery prices and more affordable EVs going on the market.

Development of Canada’s first offshore wind farms took a significant step forward last week when Nova Scotia’s offshore energy regulator released the names of companies qualified to bid on seabed licences.

About 200 communities in the United States have introduced moratoria on local battery energy storage system (BESS) projects. Here’s what it will take for Canadian developers to do better.

Pakistan installed 27 gigawatts of distributed solar between 2023 and 2025, heralding a consumer-led energy revolution that exceeded the capacity of all the operating coal-, gas-, and oil-fired power plants the country has ever built and saved billions of dollars in fossil fuel imports, Islamabad-based Renewables First and UK energy think tank Ember conclude in a new report.

Almost a year after the federal government’s Bill C-5 was rushed through Parliament, Ottawa is finally looking to use its new powers to expedite projects deemed to be in the national interest.

As the energy crisis pushes fossil fuel subsidies to new highs, governments are hiding behind the need for international coordination to avoid cutting support for oil and gas at home, a civil society watchdog warns.

France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smashing heat wave, the country’s public health agency said Sunday, as the head of the World Health Organization warned that Europe is now the fastest-warming continent and needs to do more to protect its citizens.

More than nine in 10 global business leaders see sustainability as a competitive advantage, 89% have maintained or increased their climate investments in the last year, 68% say a “disorderly climate transition” is becoming more likely, and an overwhelming 98% see it as a business risk, according to new research released Monday morning.

The World Weather Attribution rapid study released Friday found that the heat would have been virtually impossible just five decades ago, and is 200 times more likely today than it would have been 20 years ago.

“The heat pump faces a financing problem, not a problem of acceptance, as one might sometimes assume from the political debate,” Carolin Friedemann, who heads Initiative Climate Neutral Germany, told Clean Energy Wire.

An explosion tore through Qatar’s key natural gas export terminal Sunday night as workers tried to resume operations after Iran bombed it during the war, causing a fire that killed at least 13 people and hurt dozens more.

Senators saved a network of ocean sensors from “supreme stupidity.” But other cutting-edge efforts are running out of funding, too.

Up to 10 new nuclear reactors by 2041, more Candu reactor sales to other countries, and a doubling in uranium exports by 2035 are key elements of the “new civilian nuclear renaissance” the federal government hopes to ring in with a new nuclear energy strategy released Monday by Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson.

Punishing temperatures extended to the United Kingdom and Spain, where weather agencies issued red alerts—like France—about the risks of extreme heat for tens of millions of people.

Misinformation about renewable energy fuels local pushback to proposed energy installations and could threaten farmers’ livelihoods.

Alberta’s utility regulator has granted intervener status to more than 680 individuals in the small town of Olds, writing that they may be directly and adversely affected by its decision on a proposed 1.4-gigawatt (GW) power plant and data centre within the town limits.

Some 345,000 kilometres of seismic lines generated by oil and gas activity scar Alberta’s boreal peatlands, and a new University of Waterloo study finds they’re emitting up to three times more methane than the undisturbed land around them.

Canada’s new National Electricity Strategy could cut hundreds of megatonnes of carbon emissions outside the power sector, Transition Accelerator CEO Moe Kabbara tells The Energy Mix. But meanwhile, a “hypothetical” pipeline is still taking up all the political oxygen in the room.

A list of 251 clean energy projects with Indigenous participation, each of them capable of generating at least a megawatt of electricity, now account for more than one-tenth of Canada’s installed generating capacity, concludes a new national survey released by Indigenous Clean Energy (ICE).

Indigenous resilience and ancestral knowledge guide recovery from Bolivia’s devastating 2024 wildfire crisis response efforts.

It is Schrödinger’s oil industry. They say that they are making so much money that they are a massive contributor to Canada’s GDP and sending a fire hose of cash to their investors. At the same time they have no money to spend on anything associated with clean up liabilities.

Nearly 50 households in Lytton, British Columbia, have been told to evacuate as a wildfire threatens their rural village, a community nearly wiped off the map by a climate change-induced wildfire five years ago this month.

If the green economy—defined as the group of companies heavily involved in environmental business—were its own industry, it would be the third-largest in the world.

Wrangling over climate finance, direct attacks on climate science, and diplomats dressed in protest t-shirts were among the more memorable takeaways from two weeks of negotiations in Bonn, where country representatives tried and largely failed to generate momentum on the main issues that will be up for discussion at this year’s COP31 climate summit in Türkiye.

France gritted its teeth Monday for a week of record-busting temperatures, sweltering under a heat wave that combines daytime highs above 40°C and sleep-robbing sweaty nights.

Provincial utilities are at risk of missing out on “large, irreversible changes” in the global economy if they continue to under-invest in new transmission and fail to ease the way for wind, solar, and battery projects to meet future industrial demand for electricity, the Canadian Climate Institute (CCI) warns in an analysis released this week.

Introduced in the name of player safety, hydration breaks at the World Cup have become a flashpoint for fans and players alike.

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 new framework aims to give investors, policymakers, and executives a shared vocabulary for electrification—sorting which technologies to roll out at scale now and which will be ripe for commercialization in coming decades.

Beneath every home is a system of energy, water, and wastewater infrastructure that costs billions to build and maintain. Less-efficient homes consume more electricity, leaving less capacity for additional housing.

Chinese automaker BYD is planting its flag in Europe, racing to build out a network of flash-charging stations across the continent, with hints that Canada could also be in its sights.

As cooling demand rises across Canada, a new heat pump technology is drawing attention for its potential to reduce the energy needed to cool and dehumidify large commercial buildings.

Ontario’s decision to award three new contracts for 640 megawatts (MW) of battery storage capacity—and reject new natural gas plants that were also in the running—shows that gas can no longer win a competitive bid against the less expensive, lower-carbon option, a clean energy advocate says.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The tentative agreement to end the war in Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz would be good news for the global economy. But even as the price of oil dropped Monday, many questions remained about when and how it would start flowing again through the world’s most vital artery for energy shipments.

A terrible tornado brought folks together to rebuild their community and make it healthier and fairer in the long term.

Earlier this month, Alberta musician Corb Lund delivered what he said were more than 200,000 signatures in support of his anti-coal petition.

An extensive update to the world’s leading corporate net-zero standard drew praise from carbon removal companies but fury from climate groups that say Big Tech killed one of its most important provisions.

The Tumbleweed installation just went online in Kern County. It can store clean energy and discharge it for eight hours straight, a harbinger of what’s to come.

Surging offshore oil and gas development poses a profound and growing threat to already imperiled marine ecosystems and coastal communities around the world, says a new report from the California-based non-profit Earth Insight.

Researchers who found that a single day of extreme heat leads to approximately 3,400 excess deaths in India have analyzed how heatwaves affect mortality at the district level, hoping to bring to light “a profound and troubling environmental injustice.”

The British Columbia government is looking at building two new hydroelectric dams, including a fourth dam for the Peace River where the Site C project generated opposition and cost overruns.

A “disappointing year” of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production is threatening airlines’ path to net zero, the head of a global airline trade association says.

A trust fund set up to support Tuvalu’s economic development has ended up in fossil fuel investments despite the island nation’s vocal advocacy for urgent climate action, an Agence France-Presse investigation reveals.

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…”

With the Ksi Lisims LNG project in British Columbia announcing two tentative deals with international customers in the last two weeks, the product would likely become available just as global markets go into a deep glut—raising questions about whether the project or its buyers will break even on the deal, The Energy Mix has learned.

Can electric vehicles start working as backup batteries for homes and the grid? This 120-home pilot project in California is working out the kinks.

“The phaseout of gas is in full swing, both in Germany and across Europe,” one analyst told Clean Energy Wire—but progress is too slow in industries with long investment cycles, where existing gas infrastructure has already been written off and analysts expect decades of low LNG prices amid a looming supply glut.

As many as six in 10 Albertans don’t want taxpayer money to support a new oil pipeline, and two-thirds say their province’s economy is too dependent on oil and gas, according to new polling released this morning by the Pembina Institute.

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.

FIFA says it’s prepared for “climate-related risks” but doesn’t appear to have a plan for wildfire smoke, which can be harmful to players and fans.

“We heard that Canada is the only country in the G7 that does not have a seat at the federal table, more or less, to manage and talk about and co-ordinate fire response,” Sen. Mary Robinson, the committee chair, told The Canadian last week.

National Public Radio—better known as NPR, a widely-venerated non-profit radio network in the United States—disbanded its climate desk in late May, citing financial strain linked to the Trump administration’s public media funding cuts.

This year’s Banking on Climate Chaos report shows a “new oligopoly” of a dozen banks responsible for nearly 40% of new fossil fuel financing. JPMorganChase is the “kingpin”, and the Royal Bank of Canada placed seventh on the list. Total fossil fuel financing since the 2015 Paris Agreement: US$8.7 billion.

The incoming president of this year’s COP31 climate summit in Türkiye is pitching a new global goal of meeting 35% of the world’s final energy demand with electricity by 2035, while delegates to mid-year climate negotiations dig in on past promises to triple funding for climate change adaptation and speed up efforts to reduce the world’s climate pollution.

As higher fuel prices strain budgets this summer, some Canadians are looking to EVs to steer clear of gas stations. But with EV rental inventory tight, many won’t find what they’re looking for on the rental lot.

Canadians see energy efficiency is an essential tool to deal with the rising cost of living, and more than three-quarters say it’s up to federal and provincial governments to help households seize the opportunity, Abacus Data reported late last week.

As Ottawa looks to pension funds to finance major energy projects and LNG Canada moves to double production in Kitimat, beneficiaries warn their retirement savings could become their “biggest contribution to the climate crisis,” one retiree said.

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.

The lead developer of the Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project planned for the West Coast has announced benefit agreements with three First Nations in northern British Columbia, two of which it says have withdrawn legal challenges against the $10-billion plant and export terminal.

Alberta’s Wonder Valley artificial intelligence (AI) data centre and nine-gigawatt power plant will be “one of the largest single-site heat sources on the planet” when fully operational, warns a Utah State University physicist commissioned to assess the project.

Google is paying households and businesses to let it dial down their energy use, freeing up grid capacity for its data centres without building new infrastructure.

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.

The cost of federal inaction for Canadians feeling the impacts of extreme weather took centre stage at a national summit on Thursday, as city leaders demanded climate-forward investment.

Influencers want the public to think climate change is up for debate, not established fact, said Philip Newell of Climate Action Against Disinformation, in a webinar hosted by Toronto Public Library. “What disinformation is meant to do (is) keep that debate looking like it’s 50:50, because then they can block action.”

Two major research institutions got a new lease on life but more than 900 deep-ocean monitoring units are being removed as Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle climate science made their way through the U.S. Congress and court system.

Ottawa’s energy deal with Alberta will do little to reduce Canada’s emissions, a new study released Thursday by the Canadian Climate Institute warns.

The impacts of wildfire do not stop at the edge of the burn scar. They can travel downstream, into the waters that people rely on every day.

Federal impact assessment reviews for two Ontario nuclear projects risk serving as little more than procedural approvals, a Toronto environmental studies professor says, as they move through the process without first identifying the reactor types to be built.

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.

As balcony solar systems gain traction across Europe and parts of the United States, a Calgary-based coalition is pushing for regulatory changes to make small, plug-in solar systems easier to adopt in Canada.

“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.

Kevin Thomas, CEO of the Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE), digs into what works and what might not in Canada’s new national electricity strategy, and how it could shape future investment decisions.

Two Utah lawmakers are walking back their once unbridled support for celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary’s Stratos Project, a proposed 9-gigawatt artificial intelligence (AI) data centre near the Great Salt Lake, as opposition grows and a midterm election approaches.

Oil production is ramping up off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador and the provincial government is offering money to companies interested in looking for more.

A partnership between a Port Alberni-based housing construction startup and a local college is poised to provide dozens of full-time manufacturing jobs and thousands of new energy-efficient, low-embodied carbon homes per year, in and around the former forestry town.

Inspections are revealing growing failures in modern glass solar panels as manufacturers respond to increasing demand for larger, thinner, and lighter panels.

A plurilateral alliance built on clean steel and aluminum could reduce reliance on the U.S. and China while accelerating industrial decarbonization.

While scientists identify climate change as a major factor behind the spread of ticks, conspiracy theories blaming biological warfare, Bill Gates, and other unsubstantiated plots are drawing millions of views online.

The environmental footprint of data centres already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and energy use and pollution will double in just four years as use of artificial intelligence grows.

Africa’s next generation of power projects is increasingly being built around solar and wind power and battery storage, as governments and investors shift away from coal and large hydropower dams in search of cheaper, faster and more reliable electricity.

A proposed C$10-billion artificial intelligence data centre and power plant complex in Olds, Alberta, has sparked more registered intervenors than any utility project in the province’s recent history, according to a veteran regulator.

The global energy transition is a moment of opportunity “for countries that are prepared to step up,” and Canada has “so much of what is required to lead,” economist and climate policy specialist Diana Fox Carney told the opening session of Toronto Climate Week June 1.

Two-thirds of Albertans say they want more wind and solar developed in or near their communities, concludes a new poll released in late May by the Business Renewables Centre-Canada.

“This administration cooked up a sham deal to pay a foreign energy company hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to abandon offshore wind and invest in oil and gas instead,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement.

Community opponents are vowing to carry on their fight after the New Brunswick Energy & Utilities Board (EUB) approved NB Power’s plans for the Tantramar 500-MW gas/diesel plant near Centre Village, to be built and operated by the U.S. company PROENERGY for 25 years.

With details on the Carney government’s tailpipe emissions standard expected this summer, analysts say a strong, swift policy is essential for market certainty and to ease costs for cash-strapped Canadians.

The “milestone” purchase agreement announced May 27 for the Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in British Columbia is still a good deal more tentative than a federal media release made it sound, according to the German state utility that signed the deal.

A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that Canada’s environment minister improperly granted a permit for a radioactive waste disposal facility near the Ottawa River.

Two-thirds of Canadians support an excess profits tax on oil and gas, according to new polling data released June 2 by Climate Caucus.

Small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) developers in the United States may soon be granted access to weapons-grade plutonium to use as fuel, and “experts have concerns,” Energy Central reports.

The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed repealing a rule that requires some public companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks, a move environmental groups and investors say will deprive markets of key financial data.

Global banks have invested US$133bn into U.S. petrochemical expansion, even as the industry is linked to climate change.

A German utility’s decision to buy a million tonnes of gas per year from the yet-to-be-built Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in British Columbia may help the project secure the investors it needs, but still falls short of the energy trade breakthrough the federal government is claiming, independent analysts say.

The federal government is facing increased pressure to state whether it knows how some of its recent policy changes will affect Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Former environment and climate minister Steven Guilbeault announced Wednesday that he will resign as a member of Parliament this summer following significant changes to federal climate policy under Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Global clean energy, nuclear, grid, and energy efficiency investment will hold steady at US$2.2 trillion this year, while fossil fuel spending will tick up slightly from $1.1 to $1.2 trillion, the International Energy Agency (IEA) concludes in the latest edition of its annual World Energy Investment report.

Nova Scotia’s premier Tim Houston says his government is about to start negotiations with the first company that could frack for natural gas since the province lifted a decade-long ban on the practice.

Major Nordic financiers and some of Europe’s bigger political heavyweights are among the 127 investors, businesses, scientists, trade unions, think tanks, and non-governmental organizations cautioning the European Commission against opening the door to new fossil fuel extraction in the Arctic.

From the eight senators to their staff and military liaison officers, the group will be entirely women as they pay diplomatic visits to government officials in four Arctic nations, including Canada.

The diesel and hydroelectric generators built for industry in Canada’s North are expensive and aging, write Lynne Couves and Rosa Brown in Policy Options. Repair and improvement can’t be the sole burden of communities.

wo new polls released Wednesday indicate that people across Canada, including Albertans, support faster implementation of the country’s new industrial carbon pricing system, and that voters in swing ridings in Quebec and British Columbia oppose federal subsidies for a new fossil fuel pipeline.

A Calgary-based specialist working to decarbonize the oil sector from within is arguing that producers pushing back against industrial carbon pricing have it backward: rather than harming competitiveness, a sound policy is what would have given Alberta’s barrels a fighting chance in “carbon-constrained” global markets.

Speaking at the launch of the US$25-million initiative, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said it would support the government’s aim “to increase renewable energy share in Palestine to about 30% by 2030.” The need for greater energy independence is acute: Palestine currently depends on Israel for 87% of its power needs.

Grouping wind, solar, and batteries together can already be more affordable than building a coal or gas plant in prime locations, new report finds.

Fervo Energy’s IPO raised US$1.89 billion in one of the largest renewable energy public offerings ever, signaling growing investor confidence in clean energy.

The “profound impacts” of new public subsidies for liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals could violate constitutionally-protected rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, environmental law charity Ecojustice warned earlier this month in a legal letter to the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB), Export Development Canada, the new Major Projects Office, and the federal Cabinet.

As peace talks drag on and the American-Israeli war against Iran enters its fourth month, environmental advocates are urging attention to yet another bitter consequence of dropping bombs on the world’s largest centre of fossil fuel production: ecosystem-ravaging oil slicks.

With power demand from data centers skyrocketing, the state is rejoining a regional climate initiative.

In northern Ontario, hundreds of kilometres from the nearest highway, a vast stretch of peatlands and boreal forest is being positioned as central to Canada’s economic future.

Canada’s newly-released National Electricity Strategy commits to exploring demand-side measures to reduce energy bills, alongside a doubling of the country’s electricity grids to meet rising demand. Realizing the potential will depend on defining the role of buildings at a system level, the Pembina Institute says.

While networked geothermal systems—which heat and cool several buildings using shared underground infrastructure and electric heat pumps—are gaining some traction in Canada, their reach has been limited by planning and regulatory systems that provide a continuing foothold for legacy gas heating systems.

Two gatherings, days apart, signalled that the era of pledges is giving way to the harder work of cooperating to make them real.

Rooftop solar proliferated across Syria as a 14-year civil war damaged the country’s electricity systems, but stronger policies around solar power will be needed as the country rebuilds.

Mass transit systems in the United States are seeing more riders as fuel prices rise, but experts say most residents still have little choice but to drive.

It is undeniable that USAID programming around food aid provided a critical lifeline to millions of women, children, and families in severe nutritional deficits,” says Zia Mehrabi, a food security and climate change researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder. “Who in their right mind would retract healthcare and food so abruptly, in so many places, when the direct result is people suffering and dying?”

Ancient bedrock exposed by disappearing permafrost is releasing toxic metals into Canada’s northern rivers, a new study says, with once-pristine subarctic streams now comparable in some cases to highly acidic, contaminated mining sites.

The Saskatchewan government and provincially-owned utility SaskPower are facing a wall of critical analysis after leaked documents attached a $26-billion price tag to a plan to refurbish the province’s aging coal-fired power plants, continue running them for up to 25 years, begin building small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in the 2030s, and suspend all renewable energy procurements and emission reduction commitments along the way.

Global warming is causing rivers to slowly lose oxygen, threatening fish and other lives in the waterways, a new study shows.

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.

Citing a 25% higher rate of cancer in his community compared to the rest of Alberta, Chief Billy-Joe Tuccaro of the Mikisew Cree First Nation (MCFN) is suing both the provincial and federal governments, alleging that decades of industrial development, and a failure to manage cumulative health impacts have violated the Nation’s Treaty 8 rights.

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution that underscores countries’ obligation to fight climate change, following on a landmark advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last July.

From spiking mortgage rates, to exposed pension funds, to Persian Gulf sovereign wealth funds contemplating how to extricate themselves from multi-billion-dollar renewable energy contracts, the American/Israeli war on Iran is sending seismic shocks through financial systems that are fundamental to the present and future wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people.

Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC), one of Canada’s leading voices on climate risk and accountability, is closing its doors after a five-year run.

The federal government delivered C$10.2 billion in direct subsidies and public financing to the oil and gas industry in 2025, concludes new analysis by Environmental Defence Canada.

A House of Commons committee is calling on the Carney government to release a “revised and fully costed plan” to meet Canada’s 2030 climate targets and release updated modelling on the cumulative impact of the recent parade of rollbacks to federal climate policy.

As the European Commission considers weakening the enforcement of its flagship methane regulation amid industry and geopolitical pressure, experts are urging policymakers to stay the course.

A collaboration between the North Shore Mi’kmaq Tribal Council and Ireland-based BNRG Renewables, the 150-megawatt solar farm would feature agrivoltaics—shared uses that combine solar panels with grazing sheep, cultivating blueberries, and producing honey.

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.

Steve Rolston had a dream—a watercolour painting of a charming, walkable village nestled among nature trails and surrounded by beautiful lakes. In the painting, you’ll find lovely, cozy, eco-friendly homes powered by solar energy. Here’s the thing: it’s real.

As LNG Canada’s export terminal in Kitimat edges toward a major expansion amid mounting opposition, a veteran Texas air quality expert toldThe Energy Mix that the British Columbia regulator is giving the facility what he calls a “free pass” on emissions.

Infectious disease outbreaks are becoming more frequent and damaging, countries’ capacity to recover from them is diminishing, and climate change is at the centre of the problem, conclude two international expert commissions that reported in tandem May 17 and 18.

After seeing nearly 100 countries post record electric vehicle sales in 2025, the International Energy Agency is projecting that global sales will approach 30% of all new vehicles this year, just as Canada posts a 75% surge in EV sales in March compared to the same month last year.

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have taken a “sledgehammer” to Canada’s remaining climate commitments with a carbon pricing agreement that will drive up the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 230 million tonnes through 2040, leading climate analysts say.

The United Nations General Assembly may be just hours away from a vote on a draft resolution that underscores countries’ obligation to fight climate change, following on a landmark advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last July.

Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a long-awaited electricity strategy Thursday that anticipates a dramatic shift in energy use from fuels to electricity, a doubling of electricity supply and demand through 2050, and greater “flexibility” for natural gas power plants.

Canada sits on vast geothermal potential, but with governments offering limited support, the sector must fight for private capital against the country’s entrenched oil, gas, and hydropower industries.

Vancouver City Council is set to vote Wednesday—or possibly later this week—on a new, expanded resolution to rescind the community’s restrictions on natural gas heating.

As countries around the world declare holidays to save electricity, B.C. must develop renewable capacity and become “more independent when it comes to energy,” provincial Energy and Climate Minister Adrian Dix said last week.

Even as the Hormuz conflict renews industry interest in alternative jet fuels (AJFs), analysts say they are unlikely to become a fully viable replacement as jet fuel demand rises and should instead be viewed as one of several tools to help decarbonize the sector.

A new industry-informed roadmap lays out the steps to electrifying space and water heating in buildings across British Columbia over the next 20 years, reducing reliance on fossil fuels with volatile prices and improving living conditions across the province.

Energy companies are hesitant to invest in large-scale aquaculture projects without demonstrated demand.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is poised to announce a deal with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith that will postpone implementation of a $130-per-tonne  industrial carbon price in Alberta from 2030 to 2040, according to multiple news outlets each citing multiple sources.

With even fossil-producing countries like Saudi Arabia, Norway, and the United Kingdom pursuing climate strategies and working to reduce emissions, the federal government will miss the “reality of the world we’re in right now” if it dilutes its carbon pricing regime in response to “nonsense” arguments from the fossil fuel lobby, a leading Canadian climate policy analyst says.

The minister responsible for energy and climate change solutions in British Columbia says four new wind farms will strengthen the province’s energy sovereignty at a time of rising costs and uncertainty.

Canada stands to attract more than $200 billion in clean energy investment over the next decade—including capital displaced by policy uncertainty in the United States—if it can assure investors it will meet their expected delivery timelines, states a new report from the Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA).

Trans Mountain Corporation and its financial overseer are making a pitch to keep the controversial, $34-billion pipeline in government hands indefinitely, possibly alongside Indigenous partners, The Canadian Press reports. 

A massive artificial intelligence data centre proposed by celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary near Utah’s Great Salt Lake won county approval before any environmental impact study could be commissioned, let alone completed.

Three lithium mines in Nevada, two of them Canadian-owned, violate Indigenous rights and international law, according to Amnesty International research published May 12.

As data centre developers increasingly target small communities to move fast, the question isn’t whether they can get things built, but whether protections are in place for the people who have to live with the consequences.

A rapidly warming planet due to human-caused climate change is set to amplify what forecasters say could be a supercharged El Niño, spelling possible hot and dry conditions to come for parts of Canada. 

Experts say extreme weather is boosting the odds that the pathogens carried by rodents will spill over into human populations.

Ship operators rely on a sludgelike substance known as bunker fuel to keep vessels running. The Iran war ‘s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has choked off the supply of this fuel that powers the global maritime industry and its largest refuelling hub in Asia.

Lack of data is shrouding the health risks of Alberta’s orphaned oil wells, but the province’s plan doesn’t address the gap.

The Carney government is proposing a regulatory rollback that goes farther than the most deregulatory moments of the Stephen Harper era, with proposals that would make it impossible to assess the health and environmental impacts of pipelines and other major resource projects, critics say.

Natural gas demand is slowing while battery energy storage becomes “the fastest growing power technology today,” finds a recent report, even as data centres increasingly deploy both together.

A new report says Big Tech companies including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are relying on gas and diesel generators to power their hyperscale artificial intelligence data centres while burying data on the facilities’ true emissions and energy use.

The federal and B.C. governments want artificial intelligence firms to have a strong foothold in Canada to spur economic and job growth, but say there’s also a need for guardrails on the technology and return on public investment. 

Seasonal models are predicting an El Niño climate pattern that could be the strongest on record, bringing with it more extreme weather.

Norwegian state fossil Equinor has submitted a development application for its proposed Bay du Nord oil project to Newfoundland and Labrador’s energy regulator.

Tech behemoth Meta is dabbling in space-based solar as part of an effort to generate 24-hour power from solar.

Nuclear power is neither nimble nor affordable and it’s about time the Ontario government stopped posturing otherwise, writes University of Toronto energy policy lecturer Samuel Buckstein in a post for Policy Options.

The next generation of solar panels is getting dramatically better at turning sunlight into electricity, and the technology is being readied for mass production.

Maine had more community solar capacity than any other U.S. state in 2025. But a new law enacted in the name of affordability has brought development to a standstill.

Drought has the potential to turn normal soils into perfect breeding grounds for antibiotic-resistant bacteria, new research has found.

The controversial memorandum of understanding (MOU) on fossil fuel development between the federal and Alberta governments has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis, with the fossil companies it was meant to serve fighting hard to blow it up, while climate hawks who broadly opposed it try to preserve key elements of the deal.

“To call this plan half-baked would be an insult to baking,” said one critic of a proposed pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to a pipeline hub in the northwestern U.S.

As the Carney government prepares to revive federal funding to help Canadians pay for home energy retrofits, experts say the new program needs to be fast, flexible, and flush.

One of Canada’s biggest banks is receiving a mix of sharp criticism and conditional praise after withdrawing its 2030 and 2050 targets to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions it finances, but committing to publish the ratio of its funding directed to fossils fuels versus low-carbon energy.

Natural gas power plants are becoming more expensive to build as demand for turbines outstrips supply, raising the costs of what has been considered a low-cost electricity source.

What if generating electricity at home were as ordinary as assembling furniture? In parts of Europe, it already is.

Since Utah passed a law last year, 30 more states and the District of Columbia have drafted similar bills.

As Canada marks the 10th anniversary of the worst wildfire in its history, in Fort McMurray, Alberta, the country persists with a disaster response that is both “patchwork” and “stretched thin,” writes Susan Penwarden, managing director, personal lines, at Aviva Canada, in a recent op-ed in The Hill Times. Her view is reinforced by a British Columbia Auditor General’s report about the 2021 wildfire that burned Lytton, B.C. to the ground.

The federal government is proposing giving authority to review interprovincial pipelines and transmission lines, and offshore renewable energy projects, to the Canada Energy Regulator instead of the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada.

Seemingly impossible problems are solvable, but first you have to believe it, 18-year-old Mansirat Khinda, whose Clean Career Compass won the Urban Climate Leadership’s recent Clean Economy Youth Challenge, told The Energy Mix. “If I can treat this as a solvable problem,” she said of the climate crisis, “it’s a solvable problem.”

Environmental groups allege that a popular forest certification system built by industry amounts to greenwashing.

The Pacific heat pulse is temporary, but scientists warn that its climate impacts are not.

Two-thirds of the state’s counties ban or heavily limit solar. Now, those blanket restrictions are going away, though counties can still bar individual projects.

Tried-and-tested methane reduction methods could free up enough wasted natural gas to make up for twice the amount affected by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, yet Canada’s performance on methane reductions could be threatened by new regulations in Alberta that are less stringent than federal rules, according to analysis and commentary this week.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says a new oil pipeline out of Alberta is “more likely than not.”

A regulatory order over black smoke spewing from LNG Canada’s Kitimat facility is the latest development in a months-long pattern of excessive flaring that has left residents and health experts alarmed—and largely in the dark.

Conflict-driven price volatility, turbine shortages, and currency risk prompt regional leaders to rethink the fossil gas,

Federal efforts to map parts of the country facing the highest risk of flooding are not on track to finish by the 2028 target date and don’t account for the effects of climate change—including its impact on the government’s own housing and infrastructure plans, Canada’s environment watchdog said in a new report.

British Columbia broke daily temperature records in at least two dozen locations on Sunday, with several locales spiking above 30°C, part of a several-day span that an Environment Canada meteorologist called “exceptional” for this time of year.

Wind farms can provide important benefits for Indigenous partners, but require meaningful consultation to ensure community benefits and avoid the energy sector’s past exploitative conduct, says a new report.

More than 20% of Canadians say the return of the federal consumer rebate for electric vehicles and spiking gas prices have made the idea of purchasing an EV more attractive, a new Abacus Data poll commissioned by Clean Energy Canada found.

U.S. president Donald Trump granted a key approval for a major new oil pipeline from Canada into the United States that’s been dubbed “Keystone Light” over its similarities to a contentious project blocked by the Biden administration. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said the approval comes after years of advocacy from her government.

British fossil giant Shell plc has signed a C$22-billion deal to acquire ARC Resources Ltd., bringing together the lead partner in Canada’s first operating liquefied natural gas project with a major producer in one of the continent’s most profitable shale regions. 

Benoit Marcoux proposes a ‘triplet’ electricity solution for Quebec that sidesteps the impulse to build expensive new power plants and transmission infrastructure as demand rises.

A loud cohort of Gloucester, Massachusetts, residents cheered the shutdown. But some of us are mourning the loss and thinking about what comes next.

Buoyed by surging global oil prices, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne released a Spring Economic Update Tuesday that included two new fossil fuel subsidies, $6 billion for skills training, and a long-awaited pledge on international climate finance.

A first-of-its-kind international conference on moving away from fossil fuels wrapped up in Colombia Wednesday with a clear message: the global conversation has shifted from whether to phase out oil, gas and coal to how to do it, with financing emerging as one of the biggest obstacles.

The war on Iran has sent fertilizer prices surging nearly 50%, but it’s only the latest reason farmers in Canada and abroad are eyeing green ammonia: a fossil fuel-free fertilizer they could make themselves, right on the farm.

The federal fund promoted as a solution for Canadian public transit’s funding crisis was slated to open this month. But after Ottawa folded it into a broader infrastructure pool, critics are concerned transit will be forced to compete against roads, hospitals, and sewers for a share of the pot.

A new way of assessing costs of different energy sources shows that an optimal mix of renewables will be cheaper than nuclear power in future energy systems, where linking different sectors together drives down costs.

Canada’s largest credit union has committed to decarbonizing its building portfolio and closing its emissions data gaps in an inaugural climate plan.

A key committee of the International Maritime Organization is meeting this week to advance a net-zero framework for green shipping, over loud objections from the Trump administration.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) took a serious hit this week when its third-biggest producer, the United Arab Emirates, announced it will leave the global oil cartel May 1.

Burning time for North American wildfires is going into overtime, a new study finds. Flames are lasting later into the night and starting earlier in the morning because human-caused climate change is extending the hotter and drier conditions that feed fires.

A federal auction undid a hard-won agreement to protect Alaska’s North Slope. The Iñupiat community that fought for it is still waiting to be heard.

Dutch startup Renewable Iron Fuel Technology burns iron powder in boilers to make carbon-free heat—and raised $131 million to commercialize its tech.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a new sovereign wealth fund that could become a trigger for new oil and gas development, an enabler for clean energy infrastructure, or both, just days after the head of the International Energy Agency declared that the global fossil fuel economy is forever broken.

Environmentalists see the extension of the tax credits to enhanced oil recovery as a direct subsidy of oil production, while the industry says tax credits are not subsidies.

The federal and Alberta governments are close to agreeing on a timeline to bring Canada’s industrial carbon price to $130 per tonne, while a key federal cabinet minister pledges pipeline financing through an Indigenous loan guarantee plan and predicts that up to 10 major, new natural resource projects will be under way in the next year, according to news reports.

Just over a month after Mark Dorin publicly tore up his lease agreement with MAGA Energy and blocked access to the oil and gas company’s pumpjack on his property near Edmonton, Alberta’s energy regulator issued an order suspending all of MAGA’s operations “to protect the public and environment.”  

“Rapid innovation, decline in cost, and a rise in popularity” are all driving EV sales towards a tipping point “where uptake becomes self-propelling,” and EVs “irreversibly replace internal combustion engine vehicles,” write the authors of a study published in early December in Nature Communications.

The move demonstrates a greater “sense of purpose” from the federal government in bolstering Canada’s status as a global energy exporter, one executive said, while Environmental Defence Canada called it “a disastrous climate decision.”

A group of municipal councillors and mayors with a declared interest in climate resilience and the energy transition is taking its case to the federal government, after a series of meetings on Parliament Hill last month intended to connect local government with national climate policy.

Ontario could save between $1.8 and $3.5 billion in local grid upgrade costs over the next 20 years by deploying distributed energy resources instead of investing in new distribution infrastructure, finds a new analysis commissioned by Clean Energy Canada.

BP shareholders delivered a significant rebuke to the company’s leadership during the oil major’s annual general meeting last week, voting down two management-backed resolutions on climate disclosure and virtual meetings while handing new chair Albert Manifold a strikingly weak election result.

Dependence on fossil fuels is an addiction we can no longer afford, both financially and existentially, Tzeporah Berman writes, as the First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels kicks off in Santa Marta.

A new United Nations report maps how extreme heat is tearing through every layer of the global food system—and mostly overlooks the people at the heart of it.

Ottawa is missing how community food systems can strengthen resilience, reduce supply chain risks and anchor national security at the local level.

There’s little information about what happens to soil during a flood, or what to do when a farm’s soil is eroded or covered with material from elsewhere—its nutrients washed away and microbial communities disrupted. The blind spot is becoming more of a liability as storms like Helene become more common. 

Alarm bells are ringing after media reports this week that the federal government is leaning toward a new pipeline through southern British Columbia, possibly along the route of the existing Trans Mountain line, to carry an extra million barrels per day of oil sands bitumen to Canada’s West Coast.

With great energy and water demand comes great responsibility, the C40 Centre writes.

Investor-state dispute settlements—a mechanism that lets foreign investors sue governments for policies that threaten their revenue—are holding up the energy transition, explains a new backgrounder from Europe-based climate think tank E3G.

Kevin O’Leary’s massive data centre and gas plant planned in northwestern Alberta is expanding its footprint and leverage, securing a meeting with a federal cabinet minister while regulators dismiss a First Nation’s challenge to its water licence.

Ontario urgently needs a climate plan that puts renewable power, green building jobs, and the health of its residents front and centre, speakers told an Earth Day press conference at Queen’s Park.

As climate diplomacy enters a decisive decade, the focus is no longer only on setting ambitious targets, but on implementing them. In this new phase, the question of where global climate negotiations take place is becoming almost as important as what is negotiated. Location shapes participation, framing, and ultimately, the political energy behind climate action.

The transition to electric vehicles is lauded as one of the best solutions to reduce the roughly 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions that cars and vans emit annually, but what if it went one step further and eliminated cars entirely?

In a world of tight carbon budgets and finite critical minerals, the war economy and the energy transition are rival claimants on the same resources, and only one of them can ultimately keep us safe, writes Ralph Torrie, director of research at Corporate Knights.

As the United States Defense Department spends billions to stop Iran from using enriched uranium to build a nuclear bomb, the U.S. Department of Energy is fast-tracking a Bill Gates nuclear power project that could trigger a race to create a new generation of near bomb-grade uranium fuel.

Next week’s fossil fuel phaseout summit in Santa Marta, Colombia could mark the arrival of a new “coalition of the willing”, showing that coordinated effort by multiple countries can “bring much-needed forward movement on climate change,” two authors with the UK-based Carbon Tracker Initiatives write in a blog post anticipating the event.

As the Thwaites glacier loses its grip on Antarctica’s western edge, a small group of scientists is proposing radical interventions like drilling heat-exchanging devices into the ice and creating artificial “speed bumps” on its bed to slow its collapse. Other glaciologists say the schemes are infeasible and a dangerous distraction from cutting emissions.

Canada’s annual greenhouse gas reductions stalled out at 2.2 million tonnes in 2024, or just 0.3% of the year’s total of 685 megatonnes, even though the rest of the world was on the cusp of a surge in solar and a reduction in fossil fuels as a share of global power generation through 2025.