For 20 years, Canada’s leaders have promised a carbon capture fix | The Narwhal

It’s expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture — yet to be delivered

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Oil Sands Emissions Will Outpace Reductions from Pathways CCS, Climate Institute Warns

Canada’s oil sands are on track for a big increase in greenhouse gas emissions, even with the Pathways carbon storage project moving forward, an environmental economist says.

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‘Master Class in Greenwash’ as Ottawa, Alberta, Oil Sands Alliance Unveil CCS Deal

Multi-billion-dollar Pathways project will capture the equivalent of 6.5% of oil sands’ current production emissions in 2035, and won’t touch the 80% of emissions in each barrel that are exported—if t...

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New Report Shows Canada is the Worst Public Financier of Fossil Fuels in the G20.  - Environmental Defence

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, OIL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL New Report Shows Canada is the Worst Public Financier of Fossil Fuels in the G20 Toronto | Treaty Lands

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Is Trans Mountain’s Profitability an Accounting Illusion? | The Tyee

How the finances of Canada’s government-owned pipeline may look better than they are.

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Ontario’s expensive nuclear fantasy will cost the province dearly

Doug Ford's government is betting big on nuclear energy. Danielle Smith's government prefers natural gas. Neither seems to want to do the actual conservative thing: letting the market decide.

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Why Premier Ford Isn't in Pilot's Seat on proposed Toronto Island Airport's Expansion - Environmental Defence

(Updated to include link to Transport Canada survey and our explainer blog. Read more below.) Reading the headlines, you would think that whether

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Alberta fires latest salvos in ‘war’ on renewable energy

The measures include a solar panel “eco-fee” and standardized rules for locating wind and solar projects as the province delays a playbook for energy developers to 2028.

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‘You’re worried about a grasshopper jumping across a highway’: Internal documents show scientists reject Doug Ford’s environmental study of the 413 Highway

‘You’re worried about a grasshopper jumping across a highway’: Internal documents show scientists reject Doug Ford’s environmental study of the 413 Highway

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Why Premier Ford Isn't in Pilot's Seat on proposed Toronto Island Airport's Expansion - Environmental Defence

Reading the headlines, you would think that whether Toronto’s small Island Airport becomes Heathrow-on-the-Harbour is completely up to Premier Ford, and

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Environmental Groups Applaud Board of Health Action on Dofasco Pollution

85 environmental and Indigneous groups call on Canada's federal parties to protect freshwater security and health from Trump's threats.

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Guilbeault on Carney’s faith in a market fix for climate change | The Narwhal

Former environment minister Steven Guilbeault says he was ‘becoming a tool to justify some of the things the government is doing,’ as he leaves the Liberals

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Gas Plants ‘Aren’t Competitive’ After Ontario’s Big Battery Buy: Advocate

Ontario’s decision to award three new contracts for 640 megawatts (MW) of battery storage capacity—and reject new natural gas plants that were also in the running—shows that gas can no longer win a co...

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Battery Storage Beats Gas in Ontario's Energy Auction - Environmental Defence

Statement by Keith Brooks, Programs Director, Environmental Defence Toronto | Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, At its AGM on June 11, the Toronto Port Authori...

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Feds launch Billy Bishop consultation as opponents pressure Toronto Liberals

Asking the public to weigh in on the expansion comes as a federal byelection looms in the Toronto riding of Beaches—East York, where a loss would cut the Liberal majority to just one seat.

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Ottawa-Alberta Deal Delays Carbon Price to 2040

Postponing a $130-per-tonne industrial carbon price in Alberta from 2030 to 2040 is a massive policy concession that will undercut federal climate goals and imperil jobs in the clean economy, experts ...

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Althia Raj: Mark Carney runs roughshod over the environment: ‘It’s worse than what Harper did’

The prime minister plans to make it easier to kill off endangered species and pollute waterways in the name of fast-tracking private-sector development projects, Althia Raj writes.

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Proposed Changes to Major Project Decision-Making Risks Environmental Progress - Environmental Defence

Toronto | Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee,

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Fossil Industry Disavows Canada-Alberta MOU

The controversial memorandum of understanding (MOU) on fossil fuel development between the federal and Alberta governments has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis, with the fossil companies it was mean...

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Ontario residents stopped an airport, but now developers are coming for the land

A group of environmentally-concerned Pickering residents fought to protect more than 9,000 acres of federally-owned farmland on Toronto's eastern edge. Now, they say it's at risk from private develope...

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Town admits operating in protected piping plover habitat at Wasaga Beach following lawsuit

The Town of Wasaga Beach says a section of protected piping plover habitat was mistakenly disturbed earlier this month, a day after environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit alleging damage to the ...

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Lawsuit races to halt Wasaga Beach development as endangered species nears extinction in Ontario

Environmental groups have launched a federal court lawsuit seeking urgent action to stop development at Wasaga Beach Provincial Park, warning that critical habitat for the endangered piping plover is ...

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Suing to protect Wasaga Beach Piping plovers

ENGOs launch urgent Federal Court challenge under Species at Risk Act to prevent irreversible critical habitat damage.

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For Toronto, more sprawl or a green future?

Federal government will decide this spring about fate of land in Pickering

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Ontario’s Endangered Species Act is dead | The Narwhal

Proposed under Bill 5, Ontario’s Species Conservation Act is officially in force, leaving many at-risk plants and animals, like redside dace and barn owls, unprotected

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With Ontario retreating, Ottawa must protect endangered species

We need to bring back a science-based provincial endangered species law.

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Ontario Hands Responsibility for Endangered Species to the Federal Government - Environmental Defence

The Ontario government has abandoned the Province's endangered and threatened fish and birds. It is up to the federal government to step in.

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Ontario's 2026 Budget Falls Short on Environment - Environmental Defence

Tim Gray will be available to provide insight and expert analysis from the Environmental Defence team on the release of Ontario’s 2026 Provincial Budget, which is set to be unveiled tomorrow, March 26...

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The Oil & Gas Industry’s Capture of Canada’s Energy and Climate Policy

New analysis from InfluenceMap finds that the Canadian oil and gas industry's advocacy campaigns against climate policies in the sector resulted in the federal government withdrawing key climate regul...

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