‘When we need to urgently build big things we have to do it ourselves,’ Vancouver-based author Seth Klein tells DeSmog.
U.S. President Donald Trump continues to upend global financial markets, with his chaotic tariff announcements last week plunging the Dow almost 4,000 points in two days and wiping out more than $4.8 trillion in value on the S&P 500.
The fossil fuel industry’s call to roll back environmental policy at a time of economic crisis will hurt Canadians in the long run, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told the executives of Canada’s largest oil and gas companies Thursday.
Despite the security dangers posed by U.S. President Donald Trump, there is no way a new – or resurrected – pipeline project would be completed in less than five years
Jonathan Wilkinson would like everyone to take a deep breath, when it comes to one of the biggest, costliest and riskiest ways that Canada could try to assert itsenergy independence in the face of Donald Trump’s threats.
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is pitching new laws targeting provincial environmental groups as part of his party’s strategy to combat U.S. tariff threats.
Flanked by billboards reading “US millionaires are funding the destruction of B.C. economy” at a press conference Monday, Rustad argued the province needs legislation to ban B.C.-based environmental groups from receiving any U.S. funding for climate campaigns against oil and gas companies.
Fossil fuel companies are influencing what Canadian students learn about climate change, funding and supplying educational materials that frame the issue to serve their interests, health and climate advocates warn in a new report.
Canada’s pension funds are moving to address climate risk, but rising political uncertainty “raises stakes” for those falling behind, concludes an evaluation of the country’s largest pension managers.
Opposition parties are calling for “full transparency” from the federal government about its financial commitments to the Trans Mountain expansion project, following revelations of a $20-billion refinancing loan offered to the beleaguered company.
The Canadian government has approved a new $20-billion loan to finance the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline two years after the government said it would not provide further money for the project.
The loan to the pipeline project, known as TMX, was provided through Export Development Canada’s Canada Account, which supports transactions when the Crown corporation is unable to back a project because of a combination of financial and market risks.
