Ken From: Norway: Canada who is the climate hypocrite?

Norway is seemingly a paradox: they want to be at the forefront of international efforts to address climate change, yet the country aims to cash in on oil and gas for years to come. Norway’s centre-left government has said its lucrative oil and gas sector will be...

Alberta expecting another gusher in budget ahead of provincial election

By Dean Bennett in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada EDMONTON — Alberta is scheduled to introduce its budget Tuesday — the last before a spring provincial election — with political observers wondering what the province will do with all its billions of extra petrodollars. “Any...

Jim Warren: EU sanctions have not derailed Russian oil exports

  Putin’s Russia may indeed be incompetent at managing a large modern military. But when it comes to evading international rules around things like laundering the proceeds of crime and large scale corruption, Russians are world leaders. That’s why news reports in...