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As August began, three tankers with a combined capacity of almost two million barrels of oil prepared to pass through the Strait of Juan de Fuca to refineries in Washington state. Two of these ships were American, en route from Alaska. The third, the Nordtulip, flying the Portuguese flag, was...

Many people mistakenly believe that electric vehicles, including Tesla models, run on electricity. That’s partly true — power stored in the batteries makes the wheels go around. But while electricity (in part) powers the cars, government subsidies get them built. But in Ontario, Premier Doug...

Arctic sea ice has gone under the radar a bit this summer, with alarmists’ propaganda drawn to heatwaves elsewhere...

Analyst estimates shipments could hit 300,000 barrels by end of 2018 CBC News With the Trans Mountain...

The B.C. government waited months to pay a Port Mann Bridge toll bill worth tens of thousands of dollars, and the federal government has yet to pay even more, a CTV News investigation has found. At...

'Utterly outrageous': Liberals shoot down opposition bid to force ministers to lay out pipeline plan Liberal MPs have blocked a bid by the opposition parties to call key ministers to committee to lay out the next steps on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The Conservative motion to hold a...

VANCOUVER—Claire Dooley was 13 when climate change first hit home. It was 2015, and the first year she saw the wildfire smoke blanketing her Vancouver neighbourhood. “It was scary to look outside and see...

The sun is approaching a "solar minimum" again, which would mean several years of cooling for the earth. The result would be a mini ice age lasting several decades. Already once, between 1645 and 1715, the earth experienced a so-called mini ice age due to a solar minimum, which is also called...

Welcome to the club Rachel... Hours after a stunning Federal Court of Appeal decision in which Ottawa’s approval of the contentious Trans Mountain pipeline expansion was overturned, Premier Rachel Notley addressed Albertans about the latest hurdle to come before the project and dropped a...

Are we still doing that "open arms" thing? The exodus of migrants from Venezuela is building toward a "crisis moment" comparable to events involving refugees in the Mediterranean, the United Nations migration agency said on Friday. Growing numbers are fleeing economic meltdown and political...

Ice Free Since 2013... KUGAARUK, Nunavut -- Dozens of passengers from an Arctic cruise ship that ran aground last week were expected to be flown back south Saturday night, weather and sea ice permitting. "We're considering it," said Catherine Lawton of One Ocean Expeditions tour company...

Ooooopsies... OTTAWA — The number of people seeking asylum in Canada is rising “far beyond” what the existing system can handle, according to a recent letter from Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen obtained by the National Post. “Without changes to improve efficiency and productivity of the...

Those protein tarrifs being dropped would be nice. OTTAWA -- Six months after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's foreign policy prowess was pummelled by a disorganized state visit to India, his chief opponent is heading to New Delhi to try to "repair and strengthen" Canada-India relations...

But but but "record smashing" heat waves, the globe on fire and multiple sasquatch sightings... We are approaching the latter part of August, which typically means that we are entering the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season. According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...

Funny, ironic, and hypocritical. Imports of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel to the Lower Mainland increased significantly over the first half of 2018, helping to pad record cargo volumes through Vancouver’s port for the period, according to the Port of Vancouver. Oil exports have increased in...

Would you allow an oil company to store oil in your driveway or garage with you floating the cost of the storage vessel, oil and up keep? Have you figured out where I'm going with this? Think whirlygigs, solar arrays and EV batteries.

Space Climate Scientists... Professor Sandra Chapman, from Warwick's Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, led a project which charted the space weather in previous solar cycles across the last half century, and discovered an underlying repeatable pattern in how space weather activity...

CALGARY — Canada’s pipeline giants are gradually trimming their stakes in renewable energy assets, reversing a bullish trend among midstream operators amid soaring valuations for clean energy developments. On Thursday, TransCanada Corp. announced it would sell its Cartier wind facilities in...

This morning a poll was released from Angus Ried which shows how 88% of Saskatchewan Residents and 72% of all Canadians support the decision to challenge the Trudeau Carbon Tax in court. July 26, 2018 – In the emerging federal-provincial battle over carbon pricing – Saskatchewan Premier Scott...

Tesla shares drop after embarrassing memo leaks Shares dropped almost 5% after the automaker was reported to have asked US suppliers for refunds, unnerving some investors Edward Helmore in New York Mon 23 Jul 2018 17.03 BST Last modified on Tue 24 Jul 2018 00.05 BST Telsa took another...