Canadian taxpayers paid a hefty bill to send environment minister Steven Guilbeault and five staff members to the United Nations Climate conference.

In an interview, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said rich countries “can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time.”

Environmental radicals created an illegal blockade that kept Coastal GasLink pipeline workers hostages for days. These protestors claimed association with the Wet’suwet’en First Nation created the blockade attempt to illegally stop the construction of the pipeline.

By Krystle Wittevrongel, Public Policy Analyst at the Montreal Economic Institute

Following a $100 million incentive prize funded by the Elon Musk Foundation to whoever can best solve carbon capture problems, industry players in Alberta are stepping up to the challenge. 

LNG Quebec is the subject of much discussion, especially in recent days. The Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement, whose mission is to evaluate the impacts of the project, submitted its report to Environment Minister Benoit Charette on March 10. The Minister still has a few days to make it public.

The Canadian oil and gas industry has been hamstrung by anti-development, anti-oil and gas activist organizations who have successfully impeded the ability to build pipelines for the past six years.

OPINION: Today’s environmental movement has become largely focused on climate change and alarmist statistical models based on disputed assumptions. But there is a real case to be made for the preservation and conservation of our environment. These books will help you distinguish the signal from the noise.

In 2016, the Federal Liberal government set in motion the proposal for a new Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) to reduce fuel emissions by 30 megatonnes per year in 2030. The standard covers all fossil fuels in use and will be rolled out in different phases, starting with liquid fuels.