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ATCO submits regulatory application for massive pipeline project
The ATCO tower on 11th Ave Southwest, Calgary, on an overcast April 11th, 2024. (Louis Oliver/The Globe and Mail)
energy and resources
Irish company planning to produce jet fuel in Goldboro, N.S., at former LNG site
An energy firm based in Ireland says it is planning to produce sustainable aviation fuel at the site where a liquified natural gas project had been proposed on Nova Scotia's eastern shore. Nova Scotia's provincial flag flies in Ottawa, Friday July 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
opinion
Blinded by the glare from 2023’s wildfires
The Editorial Board
opinion
Starbucks CEO’s corporate jet commute spits in the face of sustainability efforts
Rob Csernyik
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Algoma Steel is banking on a renaissance with its multimillion-dollar plan to go electric
Worker prepare parts of the ventilation system for the new electric arc furnace facility being built at Algoma Steel plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario on June 19, 2024. The new electric furnaces are being added in order to reduce carbon emissions in an effort to ‘green’ their steel making operation. (Deborah Baic / The Globe and Mail)
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Inaugural chair of the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board steps down
The Cenovus Christina Lake oilsands facility steam-assisted gravity drainage pad southeast of Fort McMurray, Alta., is shown on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Cenovus Energy Inc. says it will be returning "substantially" more money to shareholders in upcoming quarters after achieving its debt reduction target. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken
globe climate newsletter
Globe Climate: Tracing the burn scars
A plume of smoke rises as the Jasper Complex Wildfire continues to burn in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada August 14, 2024. L Neufeld/Parks Canada/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT
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The top UN court sets a December date for the start of hearings in a landmark climate change case
FILE - Seats of the judges at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
british columbia
Federal government announces $89-million for conservation projects across Canada
Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change is photographed following a press conference announcing a conservation campaign at Whytecliff Park in West Vancouver, on Thursday, July 18, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
canada
Federal government announces $19-million for Science World upgrades in B.C.
Infrastructure Canada says $19 million in funding for upgrades to Vancouver's Science World will increase the facility's lifespan and reduce its energy consumption by more than 40 per cent. Canoes paddle past Science World as spectators watch a race during the Four Fires Festival in Vancouver, on Saturday, July 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
european business
Denmark to tax farmers for greenhouse gases emitted by their livestock beginning in 2030
FILE - Cows graze in a field in Luncavita, Romania, on May 21, 2019. Denmark will impose cattle farmers with a tax on livestock carbon dioxide emissions from 2030, claiming it will be the first country to do so, in a move to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from each of their cows. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
energy and resources
Ballard signs partnership deal with Vertiv for backup power systems for data centres
Ballard Power Systems says it has signed a new long-term supply agreement with bus maker NFI Group Inc. A Ballard Power Systems Inc. logo is shown in a handout. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
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U.S. judge dismisses Exxon case against activist investor over proxy filing
FILE PHOTO: The logo of ExxonMobil is seen during the LNG 2023 energy trade show in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 12, 2023. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo
world
Climate change damage could cost US$38-trillion per year by 2050, study finds
FILE PHOTO: A buoy is seen on the banks of the partially dry Lake Montbel at the foot of the Pyrenees Mountains as France faces records winter dry spell raising fears of another summer of droughts and water restrictions, March 13, 2023. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo
energy and resources
Shell urges investors to reject shareholder group’s climate demands
FILE PHOTO: A view shows a board with the logo of Shell at the company's fuel station in Saint Petersburg, Russia May 6, 2022. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov
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Emissions standards group roiled by controversy after opening door to offsets
A flare stack lights the sky from the Imperial Oil refinery in Edmonton on December 28, 2018. The federal government is unveiling proposed regulations for its greenhouse gas offset program that will govern how developers can register and sell credits earned through projects that reduce emissions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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B.C. container terminal operator calls its emissions data a ‘trade secret’
The B.C. company that operates Canada's largest container terminal is going to court against the federal government to keep five years worth of greenhouse-gas emissions data from the facility secret. Gantry cranes used to load and unload cargo containers from ships sit idle at Global Container Terminals at Deltaport, in Delta, B.C., Friday, July 7, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
world
Climate-warming gases being smuggled into Europe, investigation says
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers his keynote address to promote U.S. climate and environmental goals, at the Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on the elimination of hydro fluorocarbons (HFCs) use, held in Rwanda's capital Kigali, October 14, 2016.
energy and resources
Heat-trapping carbon dioxide, methane levels in air last year spiked to record highs again
FILE - A flare burns at a well pad Aug. 26, 2021, near Watford City, N.D. The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs in 2023, growing at near-record fast paces, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
energy and resources
Majority of recent CO2 emissions linked to just 57 producers, report says
FILE PHOTO: A view shows the Orenburg gas processing plant of Gazprom in the Orenburg Region, Russia September 1, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Manzyuk/File Photo