Tar Sands

• New hurdle signals more cost overruns for Trans Mountain’s controversial pipeline

  The costly implications of an 11th-hour change in construction plans by Trans Mountain for the controversial Trans Mountain bitumen pipeline expansion project.

  Environment

  Sep 16, 2023
  
• Over 800 businesses slam Trudeau government’s purchase of Trans Mountain pipeline

  Economic prosperity can no longer take priority to climate change as worsening environmental conditions could mean a greater economic downturn in the long run, experts say.

  Canada

  May 30, 2018
  
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• Former vice president Al Gore’s anti pipeline tweet irritates Alberta premier

  Remarks like that are having an ever-shrinking impact, Notley said.

  Canada

  May 11, 2018
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• Why heat, droughts and dwindling glaciers threaten Alberta’s oil sands

  The oil sands depend on the Athabaska River. But three interconnected threats may make the river's flow far smaller in the future than it is today.

  Canada

  Jun 18, 2016
• ‘I hope I get arrested’: Jane Fonda in Vancouver speaks out against pipelines

  Jane Fonda says she's willing to be placed in handcuffs again while defending British Columbia's coast from oil tankers.

  Jun 13, 2015
• Premier-designate Rachel Notley plans to keep Alberta as a ‘healthy place’ to invest

  Premier-designate Rachel Notley sat down with Global's chief political correspondent Tom Clark to discuss a number of issues facing Albertans including job creation, oil pipelines and climate change.

  Environment

  May 7, 2015
• Socialists elected in Canada’s oil patch? Alberta election gets noticed in U.S.

  Americans don't generally glue themselves to screens for Canadian provincial elections. The niche audience this time, however, was bigger, given that it produced a historic power-shift in Canada's oil industry.

  Canada

  May 7, 2015
• Stampede tightens belt buckle in response to economic downturn

  This was supposed to be the year that the "ranch" would be booked up again for the Calgary Stampede - but then oil prices fell by more than half.

  Canada

  Mar 12, 2015
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• Steaming may have caused endless Alberta oil spills, CNRL admits

  For the first time, Canadian Natural Resources, Ltd. has admitted a series of never-ending spills on its property could be caused by its own high-pressure steaming.

  Environment

  Jul 14, 2014