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Is Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline providing an inefficient fossil fuel subsidy?

Canada's Trans Mountain Pipeline fossil fuel subsidies burden taxpayers and hinder climate goals, says a report from the IISD.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew speaks during the media availability at the 2024 Western Premiers’ Conference in Whitehorse, Monday, June 10, 2024. Manitoba's government says it will encourage the development of renewable energy in the province while acknowledging fossil fuels aren't going away any time soon. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Crystal Schick
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Manitoba to encourage renewable energy while acknowledging fossil fuel use

Manitoba's government says it will encourage renewable energy development while acknowledging fossil fuels aren't going away any time soon.

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Crude quality issues on TMX pipe may hamper flows from Canada to US West Coast refiners

U.S. oil refiners and West Coast traders are flagging concerns about the quality of crude shipped on the newly completed Trans Mountain pipeline...

Netley Creek and The Red River enter Lake Winnipeg just north of Winnipeg, Sunday, May 15, 2022. A Manitoba court is being asked to declare Lake Winnipeg a person with Constitutional rights to life, liberty and security of person. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods/POOL
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‘She is dying’: Lawsuit asks Lake Winnipeg to be legally defined as a person

A lawsuit seeks to grant Lake Winnipeg constitutional rights, pushing for environmental assessments on lake management.

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Alberta landfill waste carbon capture project inks deal with Canada Growth Fund

A company proposing to use carbon capture and storage technology to create clean electricity from landfill waste has become the second to secure...

FILE PHOTO: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks to a climate change conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada October 18, 2022. REUTERS/Blair Gable/File Photo
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Canada may reach 2030 emissions goal without unpopular carbon tax

Liberals' carbon tax could be scrapped with no compromise of net zero 2030 goal if Canada leans harder on other policies, suggests think...

Pumpjacks draw out oil and gas from a well heads as wildfire smoke hangs in the air near Calgary, Alta., on Sunday, May 12, 2024. Oil and gas production hikes and rebounding air travel put a drag on Canada's climate progress last year, but a new report says the country was still able to make a modest cut to its planet-warming emissions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Canada makes small emissions cut in 2023, but must ramp up to hit key targets: report

New estimates published by a leading climate policy institute show Canada cut emissions by about one per cent last year compared to 2022.

In the absence of public communication from the Pathways Alliance, a clean energy think-tank says the oilsands industry group is running out of time to deliver on its emissions reduction promises. An oilsands facility is reflected in a tailings pond near Fort McMurray, Alta., on July 10, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Pressure still on oilsands sector despite silence after greenwashing law: think tank

Proposed Pathways Alliance carbon capture project should still go ahead, say researchers, after company keeps quiet since imposition of Competition Act.

Quebec Minister of Natural Resources and Forests Maïte Blanchette Vezina tables a legislation on mining May 28 at the legislature in Quebec City.This week, Quebec announced it will not be funding a mining project to produce graphite — one of the world's most sought after minerals. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boiss
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Quebec won’t fund graphite mine project tied to Pentagon; locals claim ‘victory’

Provincial government rejects company's proposal for graphite mine after residents raise concerns over 'social acceptability' of the mineral's usage.

Three of four shipping containers chained to the ocean floor are seen at low tide in the Bay of Fundy off the coast of Walton, N.S., on Tuesday, Sept.10, 2024. Transport Canada has issued an order to a bankrupt tidal power company and the bankruptcy trustee to put up buoys to mark four containers abandoned in the entrance of the harbour in Walton, N.S. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
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Transport Canada orders plan to remove huge tidal power moorings left near N.S. town

Occurrent Power moorings must be moved by bankrupt tidal power company and bankruptcy trustees, rules government after local outrage.

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