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Half of Canadians support a new pipeline between Alberta and B.C.: poll

Daily Commercial News — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:20:40 +0000

OTTAWA — Half of Canadians are in favour of building a new bitumen pipeline between Alberta and B.C., while fewer than one in five outright oppose it, a new poll suggests. The Leger poll, which was conducted online and can’t be assigned a margin of error, suggests support is particularly strong in Alberta and among […]

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Document reveals approval to harvest remnant old-growth in B.C.’s northwest

Daily Commercial News — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:00:23 +0000

VICTORIA — British Columbia’s logging agency has changed a policy that conserved remnant old-growth forest in the province’s northwest, with a government briefing note showing a plan to open those areas for harvesting has been approved. The note, obtained by The Canadian Press and written by a BC Timber Sales manager in the Babine region, […]

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B.C. First Nation meets with Alberta minister to oppose changing tanker ban

Daily Commercial News — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:17:31 +0000

EDMONTON — Cameron Hill was six or seven years old in the 1970s when he and his father took to the water in a wooden skiff to help form a blockade to stop a ship of oil executives who were looking for a tanker route through Gitga’at First Nation territory on B.C.’s northern coast. Five […]

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Ontario, Bulgaria sign nuclear support agreement

Daily Commercial News — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:00:57 +0000

SOFIA, BULGARIA – Ontario Minister of Energy and Mines Stephen Lecce joined Bulgarian Minister of Energy Zhecho Stankov recently to announce an agreement that will utilize Ontario’s nuclear expertise to support Bulgaria’s nuclear energy expansion. The agreement will help Bulgaria’s Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) New Build, which involves the construction of two new proposed nuclear […]

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B.C.’s Look West plan invests in clean-energy pilots for heavy-duty vehicles

Daily Commercial News — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:10:18 +0000

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. – As part of B.C.’s recently unveiled Look West plan, the government is investing $500,000 through the Integrated Marketplace platform to support the three pilot projects. Innovate BC will work with the City of Prince Rupert, the City of Prince George, the City of Kitimat and the Town of Smithers to explore […]

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Vancouver Island mill latest to close in B.C., 350 jobs lost

Daily Commercial News — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:10:06 +0000

VANCOUVER ISLAND — A pulp mill on Vancouver Island is permanently ending operations, the latest mill to close in the province, affecting around 350 employees. Domtar said in a statement that continued poor pricing for pulp and lack of access to affordable fibre in British Columbia necessitates the closure of its pulp mill in Crofton. […]

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Drilling group predicts slight uptick in Canadian activity next year

Daily Commercial News — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:05:42 +0000

CALGARY, ALTA. — The head of an oil and gas drilling group is calling the Alberta-Ottawa energy accord a “game changer,” but says the benefits won’t filter through to industry members straight away. “This is really pragmatic policy. I think it’s competitive policy,” Mark Scholz, president and CEO of the Canadian Association of Energy Contractors, […]

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‘Fool’s errand’: Why the Exxon Valdez looms large over northern pipeline debate

Daily Commercial News — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:05:30 +0000

VICTORIA — The Exxon Valdez disaster happened more than 36 years ago off Alaska’s coast, but the catastrophic oil spill still looms over plans for a pipeline from Alberta to the northern British Columbia coast. Rick Steiner, a former academic who was one of the first on the scene of the infamous disaster and has […]

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Nova Scotia approves Halifax bylaw restricting Dartmouth Cove infilling

Lindsey Cole — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:46:51 +0000

HALIFAX – The Nova Scotia government says it has approved changes submitted by Halifax to restrict infilling along a strip of shoreline in Dartmouth. John MacDonald, minister of municipal affairs, says the province’s approval requires that Halifax prove it has authority to regulate infilling and that none of the municipality’s measures infringe on federal jurisdiction. […]

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Ontario investing $19.5M for Centre for Fusion Energy in Pickering

Daily Commercial News — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:05:22 +0000

PICKERING, ONT. — The Ontario government has announced it is spending $19.5 million to help establish a new Centre for Fusion Energy, with the goal of furthering energy research and commercialization. According to a release, the centre will also facilitate new academic and industry partnerships, create new hands-on educational opportunities and stimulate economic and research […]

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CIBC analysts cast doubt on private sector taking on new B.C. pipeline any time soon

Lindsey Cole — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:30:58 +0000

CALGARY, ALTA. – Analysts at CIBC Capital Markets say they don’t expect the private sector to take the lead on a new West Coast oilsands pipeline so long as the British Columbia government and First Nations are opposed. They write in a report that companies would have to rely on meeting the ill-defined constitutional duty […]

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Ambitious plan to store CO2 beneath the North Sea set to start operations

Lindsey Cole — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:41:48 +0000

NORTH SEA, DENMARK — Appearing first as a dot on the horizon, the remote Nini oil field on Europe’s rugged North Sea slowly comes into view from a helicopter. Used to extract fossil fuels, the field is now getting a second lease on life as a means of permanently storing planet-warming carbon dioxide beneath the […]

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