Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told delegates at a climate conference in Calgary on Thursday that achieving an electricity grid that depends on renewable power by 2035 is “fantasy thinking.”

A northern British Columbia First Nation has signed an agreement with the province to work together on what Premier David Eby calls an “elegant” proposal for a clean energy hub on band territory north of Prince George.

Carbon capture and storage is key to greening Canada’s electricity grid, but meeting the proposed time frame laid out by the federal government will be extremely difficult based on the current state of the technology, according to a new report. 

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal regulators on Thursday approved the expansion of a natural gas pipeline in the Pacific Northwest over the protest of environmental groups and top officials in West Coast states, who said it goes against the region’s plans to address climate change and could pose a wildfire risk.

Last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada against large portions of the federal government’s impact assessment law could reset the policy landscape in this country in favour of energy development, the head of a major oil and gas lobby group said Wednesday.

Kazakhstan Ambassador D Kussainov addressed the The Saskatchewan Industrial Mining Suppliers Association (SIMSA)’s 9th annual Energy Suppliers Forum on Oct. 4. In the introduction, SIMSA executive director Eric Anderson explains how Saskatchewan and Kazahkstan have a lot in common, especially in resource development. It’s not very common to have an ambassador address these conferences, so Pipeline Online presents his entire speech.