Alberta allowed cash-strapped MAGA Energy to acquire 170 wells | The Narwhal The Alberta Energy Regulator approved MAGA Energy, already in financial distress, to acquire 170 oil and gas wells. Unpaid bills will likely fall on taxpayers

According to an email obtained by The Narwhal, MAGA Energy’s revenues had dropped and the company was in “survival mode” when Alberta allowed it to acquire 170 oil wells. Now, the company isn’t paying its bills to landowners and owes taxes to at least one municipality. thenarwhal.ca/maga-energy-...

Feds faced intense lobbying pressure before budget Since April's election, oil and gas lobbyists notched at least 177 meetings with federal officials — a third of which were in September alone. If Tuesday's budget is any indication, they successfully ...

“Since April's election, oil and gas lobbyists notched at least 177 meetings with federal officials — a third of which were in September alone. If Tuesday's budget is any indication, they successfully persuaded Prime Minister Mark Carney's government” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/n...

Canada's 2025 budget:

✅ invests in housing and infrastructure and promises to strengthen some climate regulations

😡 creates new LNG subsidies and doubles down on oil-and-gas handouts

🤡 completely ghosts nature funding.

Not the clear vision an "investment budget" demands.

‘Climate negative’: Canada’s energy transition progress stalls in first Carney budget From its underwhelming climate competitiveness strategy through near-static clean economy tax credits, the Liberal government’s 2025 spending plan is declared a fiscal and regulatory failure by indust...

‘Climate negative’: Canada’s energy transition progress stalls in first Carney budget www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/n...

🗺️ 🏭 🧟 🥊 Tankers, flare stacks, and fossil fuels—oh my!

Check out this new map tool to get an overview of polluting LNG projects across North America. stand.earth/lng-false-cl...

The LNG bridge is starting to collapse Global demand for LNG is supposed to be driven by its role as a so-called "bridge" between coal and renewables. What happens when the shores it's supposed to connect keep getting closer with each pass...

Mark Carney thinks Canada could more than double its LNG exports by 2050. He might want to remember what happened the last time a Canadian politician made big promises like that. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...

Canada's oil and gas industry is good at trumpeting all the benefits it offers and sweeping costs under the balance sheet. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.

We obtained hundreds of documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial in Latin America and all across the Global South.

Read @geoffdembicki.bsky.social's exclusive story.

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We're releasing a new report today that scratches underneath the B.C. LNG industry's hype.

The real winners are foreign multinationals, not British Columbians. Offshored profits, few jobs, higher energy costs and ignored environmental damages.

Full report: ow.ly/QtIZ50Xh3fn

Danielle Smith dodges climate science in parliament Are human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, driving climate change? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she doesn't know, as the province plans to double oil production and build pipelines in ...

Back to the 1970s in Alberta 🚀Are human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, driving climate change? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she doesn't know, as the province plans to double oil production and build pipelines in virtually every direction. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/n...

Major Projects Office can’t back up its boss’ claim Trans Mountain helps fight climate change After Dawn Farrell told a House of Commons committee she believes the Trans Mountain pipeline helps fight climate change, Canada’s National Observer asked if the Major Projects Office she leads could ...

After Dawn Farrell told a House of Commons committee she believes the Trans Mountain pipeline helps fight climate change, Canada’s National Observer asked if the Major Projects Office she leads could substantiate the claims. It couldn’t. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/22/n...

And Carney say's, "I'm the same me" when challenged on his government rolling back climate action and moving forward on fossil fuels expansion.

Alberta teachers’ association hosts talk on oil’s ‘bright future’ | The Narwhal An annual Alberta teachers’ association conference featured a speaker from a member of the Pathways Alliance oilsands group

In central Alberta, public school teachers gather for session on ‘bright future for oil and gas’: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-teac...

David Olive: Is Mark Carney retreating from Canada’s climate change fight? In an astonishing reversal, Canada is poised to make big, long-term investments in projects that contribute to climate change rather than fight it, David Olive writes.

"Instead, we are poised to make big, long-term investments in projects that contribute to climate change rather than fight it. 🛢️🌍🔥That’s an astonishing reversal for Canada and Carney"
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Carney welcomed industry lobby, ignored environmental groups: records | The Narwhal Records show resource industry lobbyists had regular access to Prime Minister Mark Carney in his first 100 days, while environmental groups were shut out

New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days after the federal election show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records. Environmental groups couldn’t get a word in. thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

A strange start for “climate competitiveness” The federal government’s full-throated endorsement of LNG Canada Phase 2 is bad news for anyone who cares about Canada’s carbon emissions — or Canadians’ tax dollars.

LNG Canada Phase 2 could blow past B.C.’s entire oil & gas emissions target — and still hasn’t made an investment decision.

Is this really the kind of “nation-building” project Canada needs?

Renewables generate more power globally than coal for the first time: report Shift to renewables driven largely by rapid growth in China and India

Oh no -- looks like the argument that B.C. LNG is needed to displace coal isn't holding up as low cost renewables now generate more electricity than coal. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

“If a new pipeline promised to be really profitable and had a really strong business case, there would be a private sector proposal in development and this point.”

Janetta McKenzie tells BNN Bloomberg why a new pipeline is bad for taxpayers and the climate.

Alberta’s New Pipeline Pitch: Bad for Business, Disastrous for Climate, Analysts Say Climate advocates and at least one policy analyst are taking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith back to business school after she promised to pitch a new westbound oil pipeline to the federal Major…

A new @alberta.ca oil pipeline would be a “multi-decade gamble” that assumes global oil demand won’t decline—despite cheaper alternatives and growing climate risks.

It’s a risk the private sector won’t take. ➡️

Municipal leaders urge feds to focus on nation-building, not ‘nation-burning’ A coalition of more than 250 leaders has laid out five of its own major projects to replace Ottawa’s fossil-fuel push.

A coalition of more than 250 leaders has laid out five of its own major projects to replace Ottawa’s fossil-fuel push. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/30/n...

17 allied groups are meeting 24+ MPs in Ottawa to urge federal action on a renewable east-west power grid—cleaner air, lowering bills, saving billions in healthcare & supporting rights. ⚡ climatecaucus.bsky.social @stephenjwt.bsky.social @cape-acme.bsky.social @yoursacredearth.bsky.social

Feds, BC are shifting LNG risks to public purse, report claims The federal and provincial governments are on track to provide almost $4 billion in existing support to the LNG sector on the West Coast by 2030.

The federal and provincial governments are on track to provide almost $4 billion in support to the LNG sector on the West Coast by 2030. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/23/n...

Start-up emissions at B.C. LNG plants systematically underestimated, finds study Researchers say B.C. regulators have underestimated pollution by ignoring LNG terminal start-up emissions.

More evidence that B.C. LNG is a bad bet for our province www.biv.com/news/environ...

The U.S. Is Forfeiting the Clean-Energy Race to China As President Trump doubles down on fossil fuels, the U.S. and China offer competing visions for the future of energy.

WSJ: the US is forfeiting the clean energy race to China. Canada risks doing so as well with fossil based major projects. www.wsj.com/economy/glob...

A retrofit mission could power Carney’s made-in-Canada agenda Retrofitting existing homes and buildings strengthens the economy while cutting emissions, accelerates housing delivery while lowering costs, and builds a skilled workforce.

Great ideas from Pembina on a nation-building strategy with broad benefits based on retrofitting existing homes and businesses

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Like others, the team at @energy.iisd.org finds that BC's LNG export projects are a risky bet 📉and a poor choice for all the 💸BC and Canada are forking over.

Carney's red tape narrative doesn't hold up The perception that a bureaucratic maze is preventing Canada from building major projects, as Prime Minister Mark Carney has argued to support his deregulatory nation-building agenda, doesn’t hold up ...

The perception that a bureaucratic maze is preventing Canada from building major projects, as PM Mark Carney has argued to support his deregulatory nation-building agenda, doesn’t hold up according to a data analysis of projects already underway. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/15/a...

The climate costs of B.C.’s Ksi Lisims LNG | The Narwhal Ksi Lisims LNG will initially burn fossil fuels to power its operations in B.C., resulting in ‘significant adverse effects’ for the climate

Ksi Lisims LNG was pitched as a net-zero project. But the B.C. government’s approval says it will likely burn natural gas for years, causing “significant adverse effects” on emissions. Critics warn the project undermines the province’s climate goals. thenarwhal.ca/ksi-lisims-l...

How Canada should respond to Charlie Kirk’s murder Doing better here in Canada means refusing to import the worst elements of America’s ongoing culture war into our own politics.

How should Canada respond to Charlie Kirk's murder? Doing better here in Canada means refusing to import the worst elements of America’s ongoing culture war into our own politics. @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/16/o...

Halt LNG Expansion Until Health Risks Studied, Say Doctors | The Tyee First Nations leaders and health professionals say people are getting sick, and BC needs to hit pause.

In parallel events held Monday in Vancouver and Smithers, B.C. medical professionals and First Nations leaders called on the provincial government to do a comprehensive study into the health impacts of #LNG production before forging ahead with plans to expand the industry.