Oil & Gas and Mining News

EDMONTON — An Alberta oil and gas company has been fined $15,000 for failing to report a potentially lethal amount of hydrogen sulphide, or sour gas, had been released into the atmosphere.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said he sees an east-west clean electricity network as his first priority for expanding the Canadian energy market — not new pipelines.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s government on Tuesday approved joining OPEC+, a group of major oil-exporting nations, signaling the country's evolution into a major oil state just nine months ahead of hosting the United Nations' annual climate summi

As concerns rise about Canada's reliance on the U.S. for energy exports, Enbridge Inc. chief executive Greg Ebel says getting a big new energy export project off the ground in this country would require drastic shifts in government policy.

TC Energy Corp. says it plans to keep its discretionary spending focused on the U.S. as it downplayed the chances of reviving an eastern energy export route from Canada.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales rose for a third straight month as they increased 0.3 per cent to $71.4 billion in December.

CALGARY — Alberta's energy watchdog has chosen a former oil and gas company CEO as its new boss. Rob Morgan, who most recently led Strathcona Resources Ltd.

CALGARY — Parkland Corp. says its largest shareholder is no longer bound by the voting and standstill restrictions that were part of a governance agreement between the two.

OTTAWA — Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland’s pitch to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to allies is drawing skeptical reactions from those who say her government neglected the sector over the past decade.

CALGARY — AltaGas Ltd. and Keyera Corp. have signed a deal to work together in a plan they say will see more Canadian energy products reach Asian markets.