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There is an escalating tension in Canada between the Albertan and British Columbian (B.C) Governments over the disputed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline, which is due to transport tar sands from Alberta to the B.C Coast.

Although Canada’s controversial tar sands industry celebrated a small increase in production last year, this year’s forecast is looking gloomy, as investors continue to take flight over the climate risks and the relatively low oil price means that other oil patches look more profitable.

Who will clean up the mess if oil companies go bust as the whole fossil fuel industry goes from a downcycle into a potential “death spiral”?

In a dramatic turn of events, it looks like all bust and no more boom for the Alberta tar sands, according to our recent analysis based on industry data. In reality, future rates of production will likely be insufficient to fill even one new pipeline.

The oil industry's own data shows that the tar sands are on the edge of decline – but the key question is if they will take everyone else down with them.

Reading or watching videos from someone like Ezra Levant, a man who used to sell cigarettes, should come with a health warning.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers' "data" claiming a need for pipelines looks increasingly far-fetched the more one looks into it.

Washington DC is still reeling this morning with the news that Donald Trump yesterday sacked FBI director, James Comey. Ostensibly, the White House is saying that Comey’s firing is all about his botched investigation into Clinton’s emails. But everyone knows that is not the truth.

Canada doesn’t have its story straight on climate change – which makes it all the more important to push the country to be the real climate leader we need.

New research published yesterday in the journal, Nature Geoscience, outlines the first documented case in modern times of what is being called “river piracy”, in which one huge river suddenly flows into another.