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Why U.S. should welcome crude from the oil sands
By Bloomberg Editors On first look, it might seem wrong to allow TransCanada Corp. to build the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline to carry oil from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast. After all, if...
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Canada joins fight over EU emissions
Ottawa said Thursday it will join 26 countries opposing the European Union’s plan to include aviation in its emissions trading scheme starting next year. Airlines around the globe were dealt a...
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Five challenges facing the energy sector in 2012
By John Kemp Global energy markets stand at a crossroads. The big themes that dominated the opening years of the century (prosperity, markets, peak oil, global warming and clean technology) are giving...
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Can carbon for the price of a pizza save the planet?
By Jeff Coelho and Nina Chestney Climate negotiators meeting in South Africa this week face fresh worries over saving the planet from global warming now that a tonne of carbon trades at the price of a...
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Last chance to save Kyoto deal at climate talks
By Jon Herskovitz and Agnieszka Flak DURBAN – Almost 200 nations began global climate talks on Monday with time running out to save the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions...
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Canada to offer millions in climate-change financing at Durban summit
By Mike De Souza OTTAWA — Canada’s environment minister says the country is ready to roll out another $400-million in annual climate-change financing for developing countries as it enters a challenging...
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Renewable power trumps fossils for first time as UN stalls
By Alex Morales Renewable energy is surpassing fossil fuels for the first time in new power-plant investments, shaking off setbacks from the financial crisis and an impasse at the United Nations global...
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Canada won’t confirm it’s withdrawing from Kyoto
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA — Canada dismissed the Kyoto Protocol on climate change on Monday as a thing of the past, but declined to confirm a media report it will formally pull out of the international...
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China may agree to binding CO2 cuts: envoy
By Stian Reklev China gave U.N. climate talks a lift on Friday by confirming it may sign up to a legally binding deal to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases, a move that could help rescue talks about...
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Carbon credits turning ‘junk’ as ban shuts door
By Dinakar Sethuraman and Natalie Obiko Pearson Investors are rushing to sell emission credits before they become almost worthless in 2013, pushing prices to a record low. A United Nations program that...
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Biggest polluters hold up deal at U.N. global warming talks
By Alex Morales and Kim Chipman China, the U.S. and India, the three biggest polluters, maintained their resistance to a time line leading to a legally-binding climate treaty, threatening efforts to...
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New U.N. climate deal struck, critics say gains modest
By Nina Chestney and Jon Herskovitz DURBAN — Countries from around the globe agreed on Sunday to forge a new deal forcing all the biggest polluters for the first time to limit greenhouse gas emissions,...
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If the United Nations won’t save the future, will China?
Issue: UN negotiations have failed to curb carbon emissions and curtail climate change. Shift: Combat climate change with technological innovation in energy production and consumption rather than with...
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Canada vows to keep up air emissions battle
Ottawa has vowed to keep up the fight against the European Union’s proposal to include the airline industry in its emissions trading scheme starting next month, even if a European high court ruling...
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Europe’s top court rejects airline emissions challenge
The European high court has rejected a legal challenge from Canadian, U.S., and other international carriers opposing the European Union’s plans to include the aviation industry in its emissions...
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Provinces look to find common ground on energy strategy
By Karen Kleiss EDMONTON —Politicians, industry and environmental groups across Canada are bracing for a lengthy battle to define how governments will balance competing demands to exploit national...
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Canada’s post-Kyoto plan
By Peter Kent Last month, I announced that Canada would invoke our legal right to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol. This decision formalizes what our Conservative government has said since 2006 — that...
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FP Energy Letters: Readers respond to Peter Kent’s post-Kyoto plans
Peter Kent’s op-ed on Canada’s post-Kyoto plans in FP Energy generated an avalanche of emails. Here is a slice of opinions on offer from FP Energy readers. Some letters have been edited for clarity and...
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Peter Foster: The moral climate
Climate change is a scientific issue, not a moral issue This is the first of two parts. Tomorrow: In a “moral” science climate, skeptics are classed as “crackpots.” The 17th Conference of the Parties...
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Peter Foster: Saving Kyoto and the euro by Friday
Will China exploit Europe’s desperation to keep the climate scare alive? The foundering this week of not one but two experiments in megalomanic government pretension — the Kyoto Protocol and the...
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