Ontario Power Generation Inc. should be split into three operating units, if not three separate companies, says the chief executive of the agency that runs Ontario's electricity grid. Dave Goulding of ...

Calgary, AB. -- TransAlta has announced it will acquire the remaining 50 per cent interest of Merchant Energy Group of the Americas (MEGA) from Gener S.A. for approximately $2 million US, pending ...

NEW YORK — The United States should increase its heavy-oil refining capacity and help Canadian firms like Enbridge Inc. and Terasen Inc. expand pipelines to ensure secure supplies from the Alberta ...

A regional utility has backed off a proposal to build twin coal-fired power plants in Missouri and Kansas and now plans just one plant while exploring conservation and wind power, its two top ...

U.S. and North Korean envoys failed to reach an agreement on when to resume six-party disarmament negotiations on Pyongyang's atomic weapons program. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill ...

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog warned Iran recently the world would not wait forever for the Islamic republic to divulge the full extent and nature of its nuclear program. "People have to be a ...

Prominent Alberta oilman Clayton Woitas is countersuing energy giant Husky Energy Inc. for at least $335 million for making "scandalous, embarrassing, untrue and unsupported" allegations that his new ...

To further Gov. George Pataki's regional effort to reduce pollution that causes global warming, New York released a preliminary draft of rules to regulate carbon dioxide emitted by power plants. The ...

North America is heading toward an inevitable natural gas crisis that will not end until dozens of liquefied gas plants are built, according to a new study. U.S.-based Cambridge Energy Research ...

Wisconsin Power and Light Co. has asked the state Public Service Commission to approve a $7.6 million refund for customers based on lower-than-expected power and fuel costs in 2001. Janice Mathis, a ...

"TransAlta is moving forward quickly on this project," said Steve Snyder, president and CEO of TransAlta. "It will be the largest cogeneration plant in Canada and will add 650 MW to Southern Ontario's ...

Ontario citizens and electricity users will bankroll the $900 million project to start up a second reactor at the Pickering A nuclear station, Ontario Energy Minister Dwight Duncan announced recently.