Matthew McClure

Reporter

Matt McClure is a newspaper and broadcast journalist based in Calgary who writes on environmental, business and education issues. He spent nearly a decade based in India as a correspondent with CTV and Al Jazeera English covering conflicts and disasters around South Asia. His enterprise work has won some of the top journalism prizes in Canada and North America, including awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors.

11 Articles

Hundreds of people turn out for a pro-pipeline rally with a distinctively anti-Trudeau flavour in Calgary on June 11, 2019. Photo by Louie Villanueva

Anxiety in Alberta

A week before the Liberals decide the future of Trans Mountain project, protesters gathered in Calgary to shout "Build that pipe" and applaud right-wing politicians at what organizers called Canada's largest ever rally in support of the oil and gas industry.

By Matthew McClure | News, Energy, Politics | June 14th 2019

Alberta Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd (left) and Premier Rachel Notley tour Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline replacement site at Hardisty, Alta. on Aug. 10, 2017.

Alberta lauds court ruling but has no oil well cleanup plan

Alberta's energy minister says taxpayers are "better protected" thanks to a Supreme Court of Canada decision Thursday that prioritized clean up costs for abandoned oil and gas wells before debts to creditors when companies go bankrupt. But the NDP government still doesn't have a cleanup plan for more than 80,000 inactive sites.

Legacy of liabilities

By Matthew McClure | News, Energy, Politics | January 31st 2019

Supreme Court of Canada, SCC, Ottawa, Justice

Supreme Court says bankruptcy is no excuse ‘to ignore rules’ in Canadian oilpatch

The Supreme Court of Canada delivered its long-anticipated decision, with important implications for the oilpatch, in Ottawa on Jan. 31, 2019.

Legacy of liabilities

By Mike De Souza & Matthew McClure | News, Energy, Politics | January 31st 2019

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley spoke to members of the Canadian Club of Ottawa on Nov. 28, 2018. Photo by Alex Tétreault

Notley warns Albertans of 'reckless cuts' under Kenney

As Premier Rachel Notley warns a Jason Kenney government would slow Alberta's economic recovery, a Liberal MP called for an investigation into Kenney's alleged misuse of parliamentary housing subsidies when he was a Calgary MP.

By Matthew McClure | News | January 24th 2019

National Energy Board, investigation, security, NEB, whistleblowers, memorandum, Peter Watson

Crown asks court to dismiss case from employee who alleges fraud at Canada's pipeline regulator

A Crown attorney has asked a Federal Court judge to dismiss a case raised by an employee at Canada's pipeline regulator, who alleges that someone tampered with his written test for a new job at a different department.

Secrets of Government

By Matthew McClure | News, Energy, Politics | January 16th 2019

A cropped image appearing on an NEB job workplace ad that was tweeted on Jan. 8, 2019. Twitter image

Federal employee alleges there was violence in workplace and fraud at Canadian pipeline regulator

An employee at the National Energy Board who alleges he was a victim of workplace violence has taken the federal government to court, accusing officials of tampering with an exam he wrote when he applied for another public service job.

Secrets of Government

By Matthew McClure | News, Energy, Politics | January 15th 2019

Brandy Giannetta from CanWEA at CanWEA2018 in Calgary on Oct. 24, 2018. Photo by Louie Villanueva

Wind blows through Canada's oilpatch

The breezes of political change may be blowing across the country, but the wind energy industry says it can insulate itself from the shocks that come with new governments by offering power at competitive prices.

By Matthew McClure | News, Energy, Politics | October 25th 2018

Trudeau overreaching on efforts to undo Harper legacy, says Notley

The Trudeau government’s proposed changes to the environmental impact assessment process for energy projects will harm future investment in Canada and cost the country jobs, says Alberta Premier Rachel Notley.

By Matthew McClure | News, Energy, Politics | September 25th 2018

Rachel Notley, oilsands, pipelines, Kinder Morgan, British Columbia, Trans Mountain

Notley expects federal plan ASAP on Trans Mountain pipeline

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley wants urgent federal action to stop a "regulatory merry-go-round" and get the Trans Mountain pipeline built.

Trans Mountain

By Matthew McClure | News, Energy, Politics | September 6th 2018

Shareholders vote to sell Trans Mountain project to feds

Kinder Morgan shareholders voted almost unanimously to sell the Trans Mountain project to the federal government within an hour of the Federal Court of Appeal pulling the plug on the pipeline expansion - at least temporarily.

Trans Mountain

By Matthew McClure | News, US News, Energy, Politics | August 30th 2018