Canada can be a resource superpower if we build the road to get goods to market
What we need is a co-ordinated, long-range strategy, a national trade corridor plan that links the country’s productive zones to its export gateways through reliable, resilient, multimodal infrastructure.
The urgency of confronting a warming world remains
As Mark Carney battles Donald Trump’s trade wars and confronts western alienation, he will also have to lead Canada’s heighten effort in the energy transition and prepare the country for the baked-in impacts of climate change.
Visions of a gold rush in expanded oil exports fly in the face of a decades-old reality
The potential for a conduit to load oil tankers in the dangerous waters of the northern B.C. coast actually ended more than three decades ago.
Bitumen skepticism not a blanket ‘no’ to pipelines, says B.C. Liberal MP Greaves
Jurisdictional respect is a ‘core principle’ of any consideration of future national projects, says a spokesperson for Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson.
Powering a just transition: why Canada’s clean energy workforce needs a recharge
Canada can’t decarbonize without people. And we can’t build the workforce we need with the systems that created exclusion. Ontario’s Small Modular Reactor project at Darlington shows how clean energy can power economies, but without inclusive workforce development, that promise falls short.
Climate policy is economic policy
An energy vision for Canada that includes achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is needed to shape our actions, policies, and investments.
Urgent: ambitious methane emissions reduction needed
Meeting our methane targets is an important prerequisite for Canada’s international competitiveness.
Canada can’t move forward without Indigenous-led solutions
No serious national strategy—be it economic, environmental, or geopolitical—can succeed without Indigenous leadership, co-ownership, and shared decision-making power.
Renewable Energy
Energy Minister Hodgson has experience with moving big projects, but some sector experts question plans to build up conventional energy alongside renewables
In the Throne Speech, King Charles III promised development of a Major Federal Project Office to reduce approvals timelines for nationally significant projects from five years to two.
