Oil & Gas and Mining News

OTTAWA — Ottawa announced it's contributing up to $200 million toward the Cedar LNG project on the northern B.C. coast as trade turmoil with the U.S. propels calls for Canada to diversify its resource export markets.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says that in her first face-to-face meeting with the new prime minister she gave him an earful on wildfires and oil sales and warned him national unity hangs in the balance.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made his second election campaign-style announcement in as many days Thursday, just as news broke that Prime Minister Mark Carney is widely expected to begin the race on Sunday.

OTTAWA — A deal to send Canadian green hydrogen exports to Germany is awaiting Ottawa's final decision on funding and a verdict from European regulators on whether the project has adequate competition.

OTTAWA — A Mark Carney government will maintain the cap on emissions from the production of oil and gas, Environment Minister Terry Duguid said in a recent interview.

EDMONTON — Alberta's government is proposing a law it says would ban federal employees from going on any oil-related sites -- from wellheads to corporate head offices -- but critics say the province doesn't have the legal right to do so.

CALGARY — A group of top energy executives is calling on the leaders of the four federal political parties to declare a Canadian energy crisis and use emergency powers to help speed the development of key projects in the "national interest.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says plans for cleaning up abandoned or inactive oil wells are to be made public in two weeks.

OTTAWA — Canadians can expect to feel the absence of the consumer carbon price at the pumps immediately but it may take longer to notice a difference in the price of other goods, a new report released Wednesday suggests.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is defending a nearly 23 per cent increase to her office's budget, saying it's coming at the expense of the Energy Ministry as her office assumes some formal and financial responsibility for promoting the pro