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Canadian oil and gas companies, federal government underestimating impact of methane leaks on greenhouse gas emissions

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau vowed to regulate total emissions from Canadas oil and gas producers as he laid out his first major climate change promises of the campaign Sunday, a . . .

Article content Hannah Konschuh, a grain farmer growing wheat, canola, barley and yellow peas in Alberta’s Wheatland County, has been fighting with oil and gas companies that either haven’t paid or are aggressively trying to reduce their leases for the wells that dot her land. She’s not alone. Further south toward Medicine Hat, Ron Huvenaars, a farmer growing barley, wheat and quinoa, and who is also president of the Alberta Surface Rights Federation, says he’s been helping ...

A new report on Canada's oil and gas sector says the government must kill the Trans Mountain expansion and new LNG projects if the country wants to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.

A new report from the University of Calgary says inactive wells increased by more than 50 per cent between 2015 and 2020. The Alberta Energy Regulator expects another 6,014 of them in 2021.

Share this article Share this article CALGARY, AB, Jan. 13, 2021 /CNW/ - The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) is forecasting a 14 per cent increase in upstream natural gas and oil investment in 2021. Capital spending in the sector is expected to be around $3.36 billion higher this year, reaching $27.3 billion, compared to an estimated total investment of $24 billion in 2020. The planned investment for 2021, while increasing from the lowest levels in more than a decade, would...