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Environment & Energy
Emissions, energy infrastructure, climate, and wildfire. The numbers behind Canada's climate commitments, and the structural picture that constrains what's politically possible.
What Alberta's wildfire cause records actually show
Only Alberta publishes a cause breakdown for its wildfires. Arson is 2.6% of the burned area and 95% of that is a single 2019 fire. Powerlines burned more. A fifth has no cause in Alberta's own file — though federal, B.C. and national-composite records name one for 96% of it.
Quebec EV sales must nearly triple to match 2024
Quebec registered just 16,420 new EVs in Q1 2026, a third of its 2024 peak pace. Matching 2024's full-year total would take a 167% jump for the rest of the year — more than a revived federal rebate or Canada's new 49,000-unit Chinese-EV import quota can deliver.
26 years of BC and Alberta wildfires, animated
20.34 M hectares burned since 2000, and 55% of it in the last six years. 2023 alone added 6.47 M ha — just under a third of the entire 26-year record, in a single season.
What the wildfire acceleration means for forests, carbon, water, and insurance
The video shows the pattern. The article walks through what it means: 800 Mt cumulative CO₂ released, watersheds reburning every 14–20 years instead of every century, C$ 4.1 B in 2023 federal disaster payouts, and insurance withdrawal from BC interior communities.
Where Canada's oil goes — and where it used to
The Trans Mountain Expansion (May 2024) tripled Pacific oil capacity. Asia's share of Canadian crude exports moved from 0 % to 10 %. US Gulf-bound flows fell 46 % as barrels were redirected west.
Seniors Are More Worried About Climate Change Than Gen Z
New StatCan survey data flips the usual climate-anxiety script. Canadians 65 and older report the highest concern of any age group, while 15-to-24-year-olds report the least.
Canada's electricity grid in 2050, in one chart
The CER's net-zero scenario maps every technology from 2024 to 2050. Wind grows ninefold to become the biggest source of capacity, hydro stays roughly flat, gas keeps a smaller but real role, and nuclear stays modest. It is the regulator's modelling of one pathway to net-zero, not a forecast.
Canada's nuclear strategy is built on a number the regulator's own model doesn't deliver
Canada's new National Nuclear Energy Strategy promises to supercharge atomic power. The regulator's own net-zero model hands nuclear 5 percent of new capacity through 2050 — and assigns wind 62 percent. Ontario alone faces a potential 14.6 GW nuclear delivery gap by midcentury.