By Mia Rabson and Jordan Omstead The controlled release or burning of methane from oil and gas production sites will be almost entirely barred in Canada by 2030 under proposed regulations outlined Monday by Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. The proposed...
On Dec. 4, the federal government released draft regulations that would force a 75 per cent reduction in methane emissions on Saskatchewan’s oil and gas sector. The Government of Saskatchewan responded by saying in a press release, “This amounts to a...
The “Output-Based Performance Standards” is, for all intents and purposes, another form of carbon tax. And the Saskatchewan government is moving to use some of the proceeds from that to fund development of the province’s first small modular...
The Saskatchewan government’s electrical utility is to remit carbon charges into a nuclear energy investment fund, the province announced Monday. It said the fund could be used to help Saskatchewan deploy its first small modular reactor, and that carbon charges...
Canada’s climate lobby wants its demand for an oil-and-gas emissions cap to go straight to Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s head. Dozens of Canada’s environmental activists are wandering around the event sites at COP28 in Dubai sporting...
Private-sector forecasters in British Columbia say they agree with the government’s recent projection that economic growth will slow next year. The Economic Forecast Council, an independent 13-member group, met Finance Minister Katrine Conroy on Monday and told...
