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The article examines how U.S. President Donald Trump's renewal of the Keystone XL oil pipeline project affects Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he attempts to develop Canada's energy industry while also supporting reducing carbon emissions. Information is included on how the pipeline would carry crude oil from oil sands in Alberta, Canada to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. Backlash against Trudeau from environmentalists, indigenous populations in Alberta, and oil sands supporters is noted.

The article discusses Canadian oil companies' efforts to make oil production less damaging to the environment in order to comply with standards on global warming suggested by U.S. President Barack Obama as of June 26, 2013. Topics addressed include the possible approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and efforts to design technology to extract bitumen from oil sands.

Reports that David Anderson, the environment minister of Canada, has indicated that his country would emulate California's new law aimed at curbing automotive global warming emissions if carmakers did not agree to make significant reductions. Negative reaction of automakers in California to the global warming law; Canada negotiating with automakers and representatives of other industries.

Reports that as a result of the United States pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol, Europe gains control of the emissions trading market. Canada which has ratified the treaty; Multinational corporations that must account for emissions laws abroad and in the U.S.; European Union which has issued plans to begin emissions trading in 2005.

Discusses the plans of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and criticism of the plan by the petroleum industry. Indication the Kyoto pact has public support; Discussion of how Kyoto is viewed as a threat to competition and investment, especially in Alberta, the main oil- and gas-producing province; Details of the 1997 Kyoto treaty that calls for developed nations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which are thought to cause global warming; How the prospect of ratification has caused some companies such as Canadian Natural Resources to scale back some operations in Canada; Idea that energy executives are promoting an alternative solution to the problem of global warming, according to Pierre R. Alvarez, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers; Estimate of Petro-Canada on the amount of greenhouse-gas pollutants they have eliminated since 1990; Support for the treaty from Gordon Lambert, vice president for sustainable development at Suncor Energy, which owns oil-sands operations.

Reports that companies in the United States are cutting gas emissions to avoid tougher regulations, as of May 15, 2001. How companies are experiencing pressure from Europe and Japan to reduce emissions; Decision of President George W. Bush's administration to back off from regulating emissions of global warming gases; Suggestion that more emissions come from consumers than corporations in the U.S.

Reports on the logging industry of British Columbia which is depleting the forest of Sitka spruce trees. Loss of original tree cover in America's temperate rain forests; Not enough replanting of trees after logging; Habitat of the spotted owl; High price of timber and the booming economy of British Columbia; Shrinking of the timber supply; Clear-cutting and slash burning; Importance of sparing the forests of the future.