By Malcolm Carter, September 2019 Not everything in politics is easily understood or even meant to be understood, however some things are more obscure than others...
Several oil and gas projects will no longer receive financing from Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Reuters reported. The bank said it won't offer project-specific finance for Arctic oil and oil sands projects, new...
From BNN.ca The Canadian Press A dump truck works near the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta , The Canadian Press CALGARY — A new technology that transforms heavy crude oil...
One of Alberta’s biggest solar installations has been built in one of the most unlikely places—the heart of Canada’s Athabasca oil sands. The Lubicon Cree First Nation aboriginal community launched the Piitapan Solar...
More than 18 months after federal investigation violated internal rules, activists say they were still watchlisted at the airport, visited at home by a terrorism task force and detained for hours because they ‘seemed like...
Mark Moody-Stuart laments ‘remarkably little progress’ by oil industry on climate change in last two decades and says divestment is ‘rational’ response
Campaigners say delays to some 39 projects are also due to growing public protest against the most polluting fossil fuel
Natural resources minister Greg Rickford attended closed door meeting to deliver pep talk in 2014 to urge executives to spreading oil industry’s message
The tiny Alberta town is one of the world’s single biggest source sites of carbon pollution. The community grew rich on oil, and was wrecked by oil. So local, Cece Fitzpatrick, decided to run for chief, promising to stand...
Canada needs to do more to deal with ‘excessive emissions’ from tar sands ahead of crunch climate talks in Paris later this year, says John Podesta
The New Democratic party may stand at odds with the country’s most free-enterprising province, notably in its opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, but residents of Fort McMurray say the money will still flow as freely...
TransCanada’s proposed Energy East pipeline will be the single longest tar sands pipeline in the world if approved. It would carry crude oil and dilbit (diluted bitumen) from Alberta through Ontario to Quebec, and on to...
Rachel Notley and the Alberta NDP must strengthen Alberta’s place in the world’s clean energy economy, clean its air and protect its environment
Move by church’s £9bn fund to divest £12m from tar sands oil and thermal coal reflects more interventionist stance and sets lead for other institutional investors
Premier Jim Prentice angled for Alberta’s First Nations to sign a pact that would turn them into pro-pipeline lobbyists in exchange for oil and gas profits
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