Regulatory
Alberta tables climate plan for industry; retains key parts of old legislation
Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 7:24 AM MDT
EDMONTON — Alberta has introduced a new climate plan for the province's big greenhouse gas emitters that it says will…
Comment period opens for $20.6 billion Frontier oilsands mine
Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 7:35 AM MDT
CALGARY — The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada is inviting public comment on the proposed Frontier oilsands mine project in…
Alberta budget weakens environmental, climate monitoring: Opposition
Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 7:17 AM MDT
EDMONTON — The Alberta budget tabled last week cuts funds for environmental monitoring and for managing greenhouse gas emissions.Critics say…
Water shortages could plug CleanBC climate-change electrification plan
Monday, October 28, 2019, 7:12 AM MDT
B.C. could face seasonal or long-term water shortages and hydroelectric production disruptions lasting weeks or months by 2050, the year…
B.C. backing proposal for LNG bunkering hub
Friday, October 25, 2019, 7:34 AM MDT
The B.C. government is throwing its support behind FortisBC and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority in their efforts to develop…
Kenney cuts spending in bid to balance Alberta budget by 2023
Friday, October 25, 2019, 7:29 AM MDT
Alberta’s new conservative government announced spending cuts and some tax increases in an effort to balance the budget by 2023…
Husky CEO says curtailment program preventing Alberta spending despite tax cut
Friday, October 25, 2019, 7:22 AM MDT
CALGARY — The CEO of Calgary-based Husky Energy Inc. says social media speculation that layoffs put in place the morning…
What Canada’s 2019 election means for energy and unity
Friday, October 25, 2019, 7:15 AM MDT
Canada is increasingly a country of energy pessimists and energy optimists, where the nation’s economic foundation of oil and gas…
Three senior executives leave Alberta Energy Regulator
Thursday, October 24, 2019, 7:30 AM MDT
Three executive vice-presidents “are no longer with the AER,” the Alberta Energy Regulator said in a statement on Wednesday. Carol…
Jagmeet Singh vows to keep up Trans Mountain fight in minority Parliament
Thursday, October 24, 2019, 7:27 AM MDT
The morning after Canada’s 43rd federal election, Jagmeet Singh vowed to keep fighting the Trans Mountain expansion project.But the NDP…
Alberta to continue NDP petchem incentives, cancel upgrading and refining programs
Thursday, October 24, 2019, 7:18 AM MDT
CALGARY — The United Conservative government in Alberta says it will continue with a program introduced by the former NDP…
Liberals: TMX could fund $500 million a year in clean energy projects
Thursday, October 24, 2019, 7:16 AM MDT
OTTAWA — The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and…
