Alberta won’t require an environmental assessment for Pathways Alliance’s $16B carbon capture plan, despite a request from Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, rural residents and others. From @sharonjriley and myself: thenarwhal.ca/pathways-allia…

When the TTC became the first in North America to ban tobacco advertising in 1980, an industry group accused it of “knuckling under” to the anti-smoking lobby. This year, cities took steps towards restricting fossil fuel ads. The arguments sound familiar thenarwhal.ca/tobacco-fossil…

5 takeaways from Canada’s draft rules for an oil and gas emissions cap thenarwhal.ca/emissions-cap-…

Last week, the president of Enbridge Gas made a rare public address. Michele Harradence told investors and policy makers that fewer energy rules are better, and Canada needs to loosen its “tangle of regulatory knots.” Fatima Syed / @fatimabsyed.bsky.social was there: thenarwhal.ca/enbridge-gas-p…

The Trans Mountain fossil fuel pipeline expansion has not led to significantly lower prices at the pumps in Vancouver — but the economist who championed that theory is arguing a strict price comparison misses the bigger picture: thenarwhal.ca/trans-mountain…