oil and gas industry

As executive director of Start Alberta, this 34-year-old Calgarian helps climate solution entrepreneurs and investors find each other.

The federal government is proposing to use an industry-specific cap-and-trade system or a modified carbon pricing system to set a ceiling for emissions from the oil and gas sector and drive them down almost 40 per cent by the end of this decade.

Caroline Dennett tells staff in a video that she made the decision because of "double-talk on climate."

After years fighting a futile legal battle against the federal carbon tax, Jason Kenney’s UCP government has found another hill for its well-paid lawyers to die on, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Understanding how tax incentives for fossil fuel companies work and how much they cost us is essential for a green future.

From carbon capture and hydrogen development to the accelerated rollout of wind and solar power and rapid electrification of transportation systems, the federal government has laid out an ambitious roadmap to get Canada to its climate target of cutting emissions by 40 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero emissions by 2050.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s second pandemic budget turns Canada’s fiscal focus to making life more affordable and giving a long-needed boost to Canadian productivity.

Now it’s time for them to brag about the size of their climate ambition — and do something about it, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The plan also introduces a tougher schedule to shift Canadian vehicle sales to electric models, promising a requirement that one in five new passenger vehicles be battery-operated within four years, and 60 per cent by the end of 2030.

Former Quebec premier Jean Charest launched his bid for the Conservative leadership on Thursday, March 10, 2022, by saying he wants to unite the party, which he believes has spent the past years "badly distracted" and "fractured."

The agency that regulates Alberta’s energy industry to protect the environment has been keeping inaccurate data that dramatically downplay decades of spills of crude oil and saline water — reflecting profound dysfunction and pro-industry bias within the regulator.

Bumper shareholder payouts, soaring profits, booming asset valuations: the oil and gas industry has bounced back from the depths of the pandemic with a vengeance.

When the federal government inevitably refuses Jason Kenney's demand for a blank cheque worth more than $30 billion, we’ll get the usual mixture of victimhood and grievance-mongering, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The green transition will need trained apprentices, architects, engineers and other climate-educated workers, many of whom are just leaving high school or in the midst of their post-secondary education.

The global energy transition could create 170,000 jobs in Alberta and contribute $61 billion to the province's GDP by 2050, according to a new study released on Tuesday, December 7, 2021, by provincial economic development groups.