The Lead:

B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s government will deliver a throne speech on Tuesday with an emphasis on pursuing the province’s big ticket energy projects, including an LNG export industry and the large Site C hydroelectric facility.

The ambitious agenda stands in contrast to the mounting challenges facing large infrastructure projects in some parts of Canada, including legal fights over aboriginal title in cases like the Site C dam and new federal climate change rules for LNG terminals.

The B.C. government unveiled a $330 million energy subsidy plan for the mining industry on Monday.

In Canada:

Saskatchewan, a province that has been buckling due to depressed energy prices but hasn’t received the same amount of attention as Alberta from the federal government, has given Ottawa a plan to put unemployed oil sector workers back on the job. Premier Brad Wall is proposing a program to have workers clean up abandoned oil wells, an idea that would the federal government $156 million, he said.

The beleaguered Energy East pipeline has a new pitchman in Quebec, where the massive project has faced the loudest backlash from politicians. TransCanada Corp. is hoping Louis Bergeron can use the same skills he employed when he was able to get the Oleoduc Saint-Laurent, a 240-kilometre pipeline south of Montreal, approved in 2012, said The Globe and Mail.

A federal agency in charge of managing the oil and gas assets of First Nation reserves is the target of a class-action lawsuit from 70 First Nations who claim they are owed $3 billion, The Globe and Mail reports. Indian Oil and Gas Canada has failed to life up to responsibility of making sure First Nations with oil and gas reserves are compensated for the operations that take place on their lands, according to a statement of claim filed in Federal Court late Monday.

Internationally:

Two new oil price forecasts were published yesterday and both paint a gloomy picture for the year ahead. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. predicts oil will fall to US$20 a barrel on account of the dwindling number of places left for store excess product. The International Energy Agency foresees lots of crude going into storage over the year, but doesn’t see attempts by OPEC to curb production succeeding.

Chesapeake Energy Corp., a natural gas driller in the U.S., told media it had no plans to pursue bankruptcy after reports emerged it had lawyers for that purpose. Its stock plunged on Monday, which Bloomberg said was the steepest one-day drop in the firm’s history.

Noteworthy:

In Opinion:

Canada shouldn’t hold its breath on a Saudi-led OPEC effort to cut production, writes the CBC’s Paul Haavardsrud.