The Conference Board of Canada report, funded by the Canadian LNG Alliance, examines a scenario where 56 million tonnes per year of LNG is produced by 2034, including an expansion of the $40-billion LNG Canada project now under construction in Kitimat, B.C.

According to the Ministry of Energy and Resources, there are 159 orphan wells in Saskatchewan that require abandonment.

The estimated cost is now about $400 million more than original estimates.

This week on Focus Montreal, Global takes a look at Longueuil police force's new John school program, Concordia University's divestment pledge and more.

For starters, Trudeau needs to stop sounding like he’s ashamed of Canada’s oil and gas industry, Rob Breakenridge says.

The sheen of oil, first spotted on July 17, had broken into two separate sections by Wednesday.

"The war room makes for good theatre, but the people who follow this closely are going to look at this as amateur hour," said Keith Stewart of Greenpeace.

The United States has made a bad mistake by politicizing oil and using it as a weapon, Iran's Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said in a parliamentary session on Tuesday, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported.

At a campaign rally in Edmonton Friday night, Kenney renewed his promise to “turn off the taps” of gasoline “within an hour” of being sworn in as premier.

The oil-and-gas sector was the economy's only weak spot — but even that industry seems to be on the path to recovery.