Energy companies are undoubtedly relieved that the BC Liberals, led by Christy Clark, will keep running the province. It means that Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline, and Kinder-Morgan’s Trans-Canada pipeline remain on the table - despite a few conditions Premier Clark has already laid out.

On Monday, President Barak Obama nominated the assistant administrator for Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation, Gina McCarthy, as the administration’s new head, replacing Lisa Jackson. On Thursday, however, eight Republicans on the failed to show up for her nomination vote, thereby stalling the process for an undetermined period.

In 2012, inappropriate advertising called attention to questionable values at Adidas, but the company’s annual sustainability report, released this past week shows a commitment to making progress on both the social and environmental fronts.

Companies pumping bitumen out of the ground in Alberta may be eagerly awaiting President Obama’s rubber stamp on the Keystone XL pipeline, but Trans-Canada is forging ahead. Comments by company spokesman Jim Prescott made this crystal clear.

One year after BC Premier Christie Clark’s announcement that Chinese investments in coal mining would bring more than six-thousand jobs to the province, it seems that many of those jobs will be going to temporary workers from China.

As a panelist on the Pembina Institute’s webinar, Competing in Clean Energy, Dan Balaban, CEO of Greengate Power, said that Canada’s clean energy policies are the worst in the world, and since starting up his company in 2007, every form of government support for his business has vanished.

When its new solar panel factory in Portland, Oregon, opened for operation last week, Solopower, based in San Jose, California, qualified for a $197 million government loan guarantee.