Emissions

North Sea cost efficiency improved in 2025

Reinstated wells produced 16 million boe in 2025

Controlling Releases to the Environment

UKCS Decommissioning Benchmarking Report

Leading North Sea operators back NSTA well decommissioning charter

Industry boosts efficiency to deliver millions more barrels from existing fields

Studies on transporting carbon dioxide through new or repurposed offshore pipelines - July 2026

UKCS Wells Insights Report 2026

UKCS Production Efficiency in 2025 Report

Grounds for making order

Section 109 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act authorizes inspection officers to issue orders directing persons to cease contraventions, implement compliance measures, or prevent hazards to safety, security, property, or the environment. Orders may suspend facility operations until remediation is complete, with mandatory written notice and reporting to the Commission.

Nuclear Emergency Preparedness and Response, Version 2

World Maritime Day 2026: From Policy to Practice - Powering Maritime Excellence

Statement on deadly ship attack in the Red Sea

North Sea production emissions down six years in a row

Updated guidance for carbon storage permit applications

Decommissioning

Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed chairs meeting of Executive Committee of ADNOC Board of Directors

ADNOC Signs Agreement with Gulf Group to Supply Up to 2 Million Tonnes of LNG to Thailand

CNR fined £300,000 for breaching vent consent

Waste Management, Volume I: Management of Radioactive Waste

UKCS Decommissioning Cost and Performance Update 2026

IMO Council reaffirms commitment to protecting vital shipping lanes

Statement on recent attacks on ships in the Red Sea

Emissions Monitoring Report 2026

Designation of inspection officers

The Canadian Energy Regulator's CEO may designate inspection officers to enforce safety, security, environmental, and property protection regulations at regulated and abandoned energy facilities. All designated officers must be provided with a certificate of authority and must produce it upon request.

ADNOC, XRG and Masdar Deepen Germany Partnerships with Strategic Energy, Industry and Technology Agreements

Reporting Requirements for Waste Nuclear Substance Licensees, Class II Nuclear Facilities and Users of Prescribed Equipment, Nuclear Substances and Radiation Devices

IMO calls for urgent action as piracy resumes in the Gulf of Aden

UKCS Unit Operating Cost in 2025

IMO Secretary-General mourns seafarers killed during rescue of hijacked ship

NSTA launches senior recruitment drive

Purpose of Act

The Canadian Energy Regulator Act establishes federal regulatory authority over pipelines, power lines, offshore renewable energy facilities, and oil and gas exploration and exploitation. It mandates safe, secure, and efficient construction, operation, and abandonment while protecting people, property, and the environment, regulates energy product trade, and ensures fair, transparent, and efficient regulatory decision-making processes.

Environmental Principles, Assessments and Protection Measures, Version 1.2

Framework for Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning in Canada, Version 2

NSTA grants consent for Jackdaw

Stop attacking merchant ships and seafarers: IMO Secretary-General to Member States

Six months of uncertainty for seafarers in Strait of Hormuz

Confidentiality

Section 61 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act authorizes the Commission and designated officers to issue confidentiality orders protecting sensitive information from public disclosure when disclosure poses a real and substantial risk to pipeline, power line, or offshore renewable energy infrastructure security, protective systems, or public safety.

Confidentiality

Section 60 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act authorizes the Commission and designated officers to issue confidentiality orders protecting information in regulatory proceedings. Confidentiality may be granted to prevent material financial loss or competitive prejudice, to protect confidential financial, commercial, scientific or technical information when the discloser's interest outweighs public interest, or when disclosure poses real and substantial risks to safety, well-being, property or the environment.

Issuance

The Canadian Energy Regulator may issue authorizations for offshore renewable energy projects and associated power lines. Applications must include prescribed information about proposed works, facilities, and equipment. The regulator must decide within 300 days, considering environmental effects, safety, health, social and economic impacts, Indigenous interests and rights, climate change alignment, and relevant impact assessments before imposing conditions.

Relocation

The Canadian Energy Regulator may order pipeline companies to relocate pipelines when necessary for safety, environmental protection, public infrastructure projects, or to prevent interference with drainage systems. The regulator determines cost allocation among parties, ensures procedural compliance with prior consultation requirements, and may award reasonable costs to regulatory proceeding participants.

Reasonable care

Facility holders under the Canadian Energy Regulator Act must exercise all reasonable care to ensure the safety and security of persons, regulated and abandoned facilities, property, and the environment.

Regulations

Section 96 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act authorizes the Regulator to establish regulations governing the design, construction, operation, and abandonment of interprovincial and international pipelines and designated power lines. Regulations must address surveillance, monitoring, safety, security, and environmental protection, and require operators to maintain management systems that incorporate human and organizational factors.

Sentencing principles

Section 174 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act mandates sentencing principles for pipeline offences involving unintended or uncontrolled releases of oil, gas, or commodities. Courts must increase fines based on aggravating factors including harm to human/environmental safety, intentional or reckless conduct, financial motivation, prior non-compliance, and post-offence concealment or failure to mitigate. Courts must provide written reasons if declining to apply identified aggravating factors.

Orders of court

Court order provision under the Canadian Energy Regulator Act enabling judges to impose remedies on persons convicted of offences involving actual or potential unintended releases of oil, gas, or commodities from pipelines. Available remedies include operational prohibitions, environmental monitoring and audits, restoration, community service, publication of facts, notification requirements, financial penalties, compliance bonds, and educational donations, with orders valid for up to three years.

Recommendation and delay of issuance

The Canadian Energy Regulator may recommend to the Minister that an international power line be designated by Governor in Council order and may delay permit issuance during this process. The Regulator must avoid duplicating provincial measures and must consider interprovincial effects, environmental impacts, and regulatory factors when deciding whether to recommend designation.

Laws of a province

Section 252 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act establishes provincial regulatory authority over intra-provincial electricity transmission lines, granting provinces jurisdiction over location/routing, land acquisition and expropriation procedures, environmental impact assessments, environmental protection during construction and operation, and abandonment protocols.

Environmental Protection Regulations for Domestic Licensing and Related Regulatory Functions

Regulations — compensation

Section 173 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act authorizes the Governor in Council to establish regulations governing compensation for energy infrastructure incidents. Regulations may prescribe claim deadlines, authorize interim awards and fee/expense coverage, establish damage priority classes, set compensation caps, allow payment postponement or scheduling, and provide interest provisions. Environmental non-use value damages are explicitly excluded from compensable losses.

Report

The Canadian Energy Regulator must prepare a report within 450 days on pipeline certificate applications, recommending approval or denial based on public convenience and necessity. The evaluation must consider environmental and cumulative effects, safety, Indigenous interests and rights, market feasibility, economic viability, financial capacity, and alignment with Canada's climate commitments.

Issuance

Section 262 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act governs certification of international and interprovincial power lines. The Commission may issue certificates if satisfied the power line serves present and future public convenience and necessity, considering environmental effects, safety, Indigenous rights and consultation, health and socioeconomic impacts, and climate commitments. Decisions must be made within 300 days of a complete application, subject to Governor in Council approval within 90 days.

Regulations

The Governor in Council may establish regulations governing offshore renewable energy projects and power lines, addressing safety, security, and environmental protection. Regulations may prohibit introduction of specified substances or forms of energy, establish record management and disclosure requirements, and provide arbitration procedures for disputes.

Maximum validity — liquefied natural gas

Canadian regulation setting a maximum 50-year validity period for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export licenses under the Canadian Energy Regulator Act. LNG is defined as natural gas in liquid state composed of at least 85% methane with other hydrocarbons and minor non-hydrocarbon gases.

Statutory Instruments Act

Section 92 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act exempts orders and directions issued by the Commission, designated officers, or inspection officers from statutory instrument classification when they apply to a single person or entity, a single regulated facility, or are issued immediately for safety, security, environmental protection, or property protection purposes.

Orders

The Canadian Energy Regulator may issue orders requiring facility holders to repair, reconstruct, or alter regulated facilities to ensure safety, security, and environmental protection. Orders can be directed at Indigenous bodies, governments, third parties, and others. Non-compliance authorizes the Regulator to take direct action or engage third parties, with liability protection for good-faith interventions.

Exemption orders

The Canadian Energy Regulator Commission may issue conditional exemption orders relieving regulated facility holders from specific regulatory provisions when necessary to ensure safety and security of persons and facilities, protect property, or safeguard the environment.

Impact Assessment Act

Section 185 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act transfers certificate application authority for designated projects under the Impact Assessment Act from the Commission to an independent review panel. The panel exercises powers under sections 182-184, coordinates with energy and environment ministers, and must submit reports within Impact Assessment Act timelines.

Study and report

The Canadian Energy Regulator may issue orders requiring holders of offshore renewable energy projects or offshore power lines to conduct and report on studies addressing safety or environmental protection issues within a specified timeframe.

Taking part in the UK Emissions Trading Scheme markets

This guidance explains the operation of the UK ETS markets and how to take part in auctions and in trading on the secondary market.

Revealed: Expensive gas behind ‘nearly 90%’ of rise in UK electricity bills

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UNEP: Opportunity has ‘been lost’ to meet 1.5C warming limit without ‘overshoot’

A temporary breach of the 1.5C global-warming limit is now “inevitable” following “decades of insufficient climate action”, says the UN… The post UNEP: Opportunity has ‘been lost’ to meet 1.5C warming limit without ‘overshoot’ appeared first on Carbon Brief .

Q&A: Why a pivotal IPCC meeting in Ethiopia ended in ‘profound disappointment’

Countries have failed – for the sixth time running – to agree on the timeline for publishing the Intergovernmental Panel… The post Q&A: Why a pivotal IPCC meeting in Ethiopia ended in ‘profound disappointment’ appeared first on Carbon Brief .

Pipeline studies will help carbon storage industry

Oil and gas: offshore environmental legislation

Environmental regulations and guidance on offshore oil and gas exploration and production offshore gas unloading and storage and offshore carbon dioxide storage activities

COP17: Which countries have released new pledges to tackle nature loss?

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COP17: Tracking progress towards the UN’s 2030 nature targets

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COP17: Developed countries ‘fall far short’ of UN targets for nature finance

The amount of finance for nature delivered to date “falls far short” of what is needed to meet the UN’s… The post COP17: Developed countries ‘fall far short’ of UN targets for nature finance appeared first on Carbon Brief .

National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Procedures

The Department of Energy establishes implementing procedures for compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), defining key terms related to hazardous substances, contaminants, and pollutants under CERCLA. The regulation authorizes categorical exclusions for departmental actions that do not normally have significant environmental effects, requiring documented determinations to be posted publicly within two weeks unless classified or confidential business information requires protection.

Compliance with Floodplain and Wetland Environmental Review Requirements

10 CFR Part 1022 establishes DOE procedures for complying with Executive Orders 11988 and 11990 on floodplain management and wetland protection. It requires DOE to evaluate proposed actions in floodplains or wetlands, incorporate flood risk reduction and wetland preservation into planning and decision-making, ensure structures meet FEMA flood insurance standards, and provide public notice and opportunity for review of projects affecting these sensitive areas.

Carbon Storage Operational Guidance

NSTA support for carbon storage industry

Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP17 biodiversity summit

Next week, diplomats from around the world will descend on Yerevan, Armenia, to negotiate a series of decisions under the… The post Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP17 biodiversity summit appeared first on Carbon Brief .

Factcheck: UK Conservatives double the ‘cost of net-zero’ after spreadsheet blunder

A booklet published by the UK’s opposition Conservative party includes a “cost of net-zero” that appears to have been doubled… The post Factcheck: UK Conservatives double the ‘cost of net-zero’ after spreadsheet blunder appeared first on Carbon Brief .

ESG Disclosure: 2025 observations

Fatima bint Mubarak Reaffirms Women’s Vital Role in the UAE’s Development at ADNOC’s Emirati Women’s Day Event

IMO condemns attacks on civilian merchant vessels in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea

Analysis: Wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis

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Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022

An area of Amazon forest roughly the size of the US state of New Jersey has remained standing due to… The post Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022 appeared first on Carbon Brief .

Powering exploration with accessible data

NSTA looks back on year of achievement and ahead to the challenges to come

IMO Secretary-General condemns new attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz

American maritime expert and diplomat to receive International Maritime Prize

‘Concerning’ low sea ice persists as Antarctic hits third-lowest winter peak

Antarctic sea ice has recorded its third-smallest winter peak extent since satellite records began 48 years ago, new data reveals.… The post ‘Concerning’ low sea ice persists as Antarctic hits third-lowest winter peak appeared first on Carbon Brief .

Interactive: What China’s dozens of ‘five-year plans’ say about climate and energy

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Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK

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Explainer: How sea level rise poses an ‘existential threat’ to humans, heritage and nature

For millions of people around the world, rising sea levels are already reshaping economies, livelihoods and cultures. The world’s oceans… The post Explainer: How sea level rise poses an ‘existential threat’ to humans, heritage and nature appeared first on Carbon Brief .

Analysis: Nepal’s $20m ‘loss-and-damage’ claim only covers 0.7% of flood costs

The Nepali government has requested $20m from the UN fund for “loss and damage”, following the devastating floods that hit… The post Analysis: Nepal’s $20m ‘loss-and-damage’ claim only covers 0.7% of flood costs appeared first on Carbon Brief .

Analysis: ‘Super El Niño’ breaks ‘remarkable’ all-time record

This year’s so-called “super El Niño” has entered record-breaking territory.  Sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific have exceeded the… The post Analysis: ‘Super El Niño’ breaks ‘remarkable’ all-time record appeared first on Carbon Brief .

Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge

A surge in clean energy has kept carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in check across India’s power sector, with no growth… The post Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge appeared first on Carbon Brief .

Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions set to fall in 2026 amid Hormuz crisis

Global fossil-fuel emissions are set to fall by around 0.5% in 2026 amid the fallout from the Hormuz crisis, according… The post Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions set to fall in 2026 amid Hormuz crisis appeared first on Carbon Brief .

CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’

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Revealed: England’s June 2026 heatwave sparked record demand for ambulances

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El Niño: Indonesia fire emissions in 2026 ‘on track’ to match record for this century

Wildfires currently burning large swathes of land in Indonesia are on track to produce emissions on a par with the… The post El Niño: Indonesia fire emissions in 2026 ‘on track’ to match record for this century appeared first on Carbon Brief .

Time to apply for Production and Flaring and Venting Consents

ADNOC and SLB Deploy AI Platform Across Over 120 Drilling Rigs to Strengthen Upstream Performance

Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy

Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has emerged as a major force in UK politics in recent years – pushing… The post Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy appeared first on Carbon Brief .

Revealed: More than 1,000 NHS operations cancelled due to record UK heatwaves

More than 1,000 operations at NHS hospitals were cancelled due to heat during the UK’s record May and June heatwaves,… The post Revealed: More than 1,000 NHS operations cancelled due to record UK heatwaves appeared first on Carbon Brief .

Guest post: How extreme heat is ‘creeping’ from summer into autumn and spring

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UK aviation emissions to be 50% higher than thought by 2050, government admits

The UK government has slashed its hopes for electric planes and “sustainable aviation fuels” (SAFs), ahead of giving the green… The post UK aviation emissions to be 50% higher than thought by 2050, government admits appeared first on Carbon Brief .

Q&A: What can – and cannot – be said about global warming’s role in the 2026 Himalayan floods

On the morning of 26 August, flash floods surged through a Himalayan border region of Nepal and the Chinese region… The post Q&A: What can – and cannot – be said about global warming’s role in the 2026 Himalayan floods appeared first on Carbon Brief .