With just days left in the 117th Congress, exiting U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, has introduced a measure that would ease the permitting process for pipelines. The Pipeline Permitting for Energy Security Act is described as creating regulatory certainty for natural gas pipeline construction across the United States. Specifically, it would approve the…

EDMONTON—Alberta’s Minister of Transportation and Economic Corridors Devin Dreeshen has been given the green light by his federal counterpart to forego assessments required under the Impact Assessment Act, also known as Bill C-69, to build highways. Dreeshen met with federal Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities Minister Dominic LeBlanc at the federal-provincial-territorial infrastructure ministers’ meeting in Moncton, N.B.,…

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii—The U.S. military said Monday it’s ready to begin draining 1 million gallons (3.79 million liters) of fuel from three pipelines as part of an initial step toward closing a World War II-era fuel storage facility that leaked petroleum into Pearl Harbor’s tap water last year. The pipelines run about 3…

STOCKHOLM/OSLO—Sweden sent a diving vessel on Monday to the site of Russian gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea that ruptured last week following blasts in the area, to probe an incident that has added new tension to Europe’s energy crisis. Europe is investigating what caused three pipelines in the Nord Stream network to burst in…

STOCKHOLM—A fourth leak on the Nord Stream pipelines has been reported off southern Sweden, the Swedish coast guard said Thursday. “We have leakage at two positions” off Sweden, coast guard spokesperson Mattias Lindholm. There are two more off Denmark, he said. Two of the leaks are on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline that recently stopped…

News Analysis Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is prompting renewed calls in Canada to bolster energy security, in particular by building oil and gas pipelines to supply the eastern provinces, and to play a greater role in supporting the energy needs of European allies. “One would think that this would be the opportunity for Canada to…

The Alberta government has submitted a motion condemning prominent environmental activist David Suzuki for his controversial comments over the weekend that pipelines could be “blown up” if politicians fail to act on climate change. The motion introduced by Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon on Nov. 23 calls on the Legislative Assembly of Alberta to condemn…

The Alberta government has introduced a motion in the provincial legislature condemning prominent environmental activist David Suzuki for his controversial comments over the weekend that pipelines could be “blown up” if politicians fail to act on climate change. The motion introduced by Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon on Nov. 23 calls on the Legislative Assembly…

The Alberta government has introduced a motion condemning prominent environmental activist David Suzuki for his controversial comment that pipelines will be “blown up” if politicians fail to act on climate change. The motion, tabled by Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon on Nov. 23, calls on the legislature to condemn Suzuki’s comment along with “any…

Having recently lost its constitutional challenge against federal carbon pricing in Canada’s top court, Alberta is still in the fight against Bill C-69, the Impact Assessment Act. Multibillion-dollar investments in resource and pipeline development are not all that is at stake. Provincial-federal relations and Western alienation are collateral issues in what promises to be an…