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OTTAWA — Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says it will be another week or two before Canada will know with certainty how much extra oil it can produce and ship to help offset bans on the use of fossil fuels from Russia.

LNG Canada says the arrival of a 4,618-tonne module in Kitimat this week marks the next phase of construction of its liquefied natural gas facility on the west coast.

WASHINGTON — The federal government is urging the state of Michigan to abandon efforts to shut down the controversial Line 5 cross-border pipeline.

CALGARY — An oil and gas labour shortage is one of the factors that could prevent Canada from moving quickly to address energy demand in the wake of U.S. sanctions against Russia.

Employment in Northeast B.C. plunged by 1,100 jobs in February, though the unemployment rate was still too low to be reported for a third straight month, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada.

The BC Oil and Gas Commission says it has decommissioned two-thirds of the province’s 766 orphan well sites.

Average gas prices in Fort St. John took another jump Wednesday, putting prices at most pumps on the cusp of $2 a litre.

Northern B.C. saw more overnight visitors in early February than in the comparable weeks in 2019

"Unprecedented strength in global lumber markets" credited for new milestone

TC Energy says it has signed option agreements to sell a 10% equity interest in the Coastal GasLink Pipeline Limited Partnership to Indigenous communities across the project corridor.