“Energy Matters”

It’s not quite Keystone XL, but Canada could be looking at an expanded pipeline capacity of 550,000 barrels per day into the United States.

The plan, still seeking approval stateside, would use existing infrastructure in Canada from the Keystone XL project and include a new 1,038-km pipeline through Montana and Wyoming.

At the height of U.S.-Canada tariff tensions in early 2025, Ontario Premier Doug Ford famously threatened to cut off Canadian electricity exports to the United States.

“If the United States escalates, I will not hesitate to shut the electricity off completely,” Ford told a press conference. He added that he felt “terrible for the American people” in such a scenario, but that his hand would be forced.

One question separates announced but purely hypothetical nuclear power plants from those that actually stand a chance of being built: Who’s going to pay for them?

In China and Russia, which dominated reactor construction for the past few decades, governments provided the funds. Advanced economies placed much greater emphasis on private capital. That approach was intended to impose greater commercial discipline and protect the public purse but led to very few reactors being built in the West.

Premier David Eby’s vehement opposition to the idea of a new oil pipeline across B.C.’s central Interior appears to be out of step with the sentiments of a slim majority of British Columbians, according to recent polling by the Angus Reid Institute.

Polling data, released just as Eby repeated his government’s sentiments Thursday, shows that 53 per cent of residents lean in favour of the idea of building a new oil pipeline from Alberta to B.C.’s north coast, although the backing comes with conditions, according to Angus Reid president Shachi Kurl.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With global electricity demand expected to rise 25 per cent by 2030, nuclear energy will play an essential role in meeting the world’s power needs. Canada’s rich uranium reserves give it a position of strength in bolstering global energy security — and possibly in securing a place at the forefront of a nuclear renaissance.

Given this year’s trade tensions between the United States and Canada, recent decisions, such as embracing U.S.-origin Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and the newly announced Cameco, Brookfield, Westinghouse $80 billion U.S. reactor deal, raise important questions. Is Canada pursuing nuclear sovereignty or ceding control to foreign interests?

A near-majority of Canadians support the development of a new oil pipeline to meet international demands for energy, and economic demands at home, while nearly three-quarters say pipelines are important to Canada’s economic future, new polling from Leger shows.

In an online survey of just over 4,000 Canadian adults from coast-to-coast, 49 per cent said they support the Alberta government’s plan for a new oil pipeline connecting the province to the northwest coast of British Columbia, opening up markets for Canadian energy in Asia.