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New Oil and Gas Projects Heighten Financial Risk for Canada, Carbon Tracker Analysis Shows
10+ hour, 56+ min ago (634+ words) With the transition away from fossil fuels under way, gaining momentum, and picking up" a major boost from the past month of energy price shocks, Canadian banks, provinces, and the larger economy remain heavily exposed to the financial risk of…...
Pembina Traces Impact of Renewables Moratorium After Alberta Cabinet Minister Attacks
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (443+ words) Alberta Technology and Innovation Minister Nate Glubish The Pembina Institute is correcting errors and asking for a meeting after Alberta Technology & Innovation Minister Nate Glubish took to Substack to attack critics of the province's years-long restrictions on renewable energy development....
Alberta Weakens Methane Regs, 48 Hours After Deal with Ottawa
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (505+ words) Just hours after signing an agreement in principle with Ottawa that already trades away the equivalent of 53 million tonnes of climate pollution, the Alberta government has released new methane control regulations that undercut the new plan, an analyst says. But…...
Alberta Landowner Alleges ‘Mafia-Style’ Meeting Demands as Energy Regulator’s Ethics Investigation Stalls
1+ week, 2+ day ago (933+ words) It's a four-hour drive from Two Hills, Alberta, to the Alberta Energy Regulator's (AER) office in downtown Calgary, but Dwight Popowich was willing to risk the winter driving conditions if his request for an investigation into David Yager might finally…...
Alberta Won’t Recover $250M in Property Taxes from Deadbeat Fossils, Minister Admits
2+ week, 1+ day ago (416+ words) The Alberta government is admitting that it won't likely recover $250 million in property taxes that oil and gas companies owe rural municipalities, even though it hopes to get the problem under control in future. The report concluded that 96% of oil…...
Pushback on Carbon Price Shows Oil Sands Missing the Moment
3+ week, 10+ hour ago (651+ words) A company's claim that regulatory uncertainty prompted it to postpone an $8.25-billion oil sands expansion is the latest sign that the fossil industry isn't taking its climate pollution seriously, analysts say "or at very least, a hardball tactic to get…...
Alberta Municipality Bets Tens of Millions on Wonder Valley Data Centre
3+ week, 2+ day ago (859+ words) This story is part of our ongoing investigative series, Hidden Wonder Valley. A rural Alberta municipality has spent about C$70 million to lay the groundwork for "Wonder Valley," the proposed site for the world"s largest artificial intelligence data centre…...
‘200 Metres Away’: Residents Rally to Keep Alberta’s Second-Largest Power Plant Out of Their Their Backyard
4+ week, 10+ hour ago (1109+ words) Residents in Olds, Alberta, are organizing to block a 1.4-gigawatt gas power plant slated for construction directly across from their homes. Located 90 kilometres north of Calgary, the town of 10,000 people is known for its agricultural college and botanic gardens. It…...
Benefits Deal on Bay du Nord Sets Newfoundland Up for Failure, Critic Warns
4+ week, 1+ day ago (681+ words) The Newfoundland and Labrador government and Norwegian state fossil Equinor are setting the province up for failure with an agreement to divvy up the rewards from a proposed deepwater oil project, when oil demand is set to peak within years…...
Alberta Stalls Out on Renewable Power Purchases Despite Strong Demand from Corporate Buyers
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (445+ words) M'tis Nation of Alberta/YouTube Renewable energy procurements in Alberta almost completely stalled out in 2025 despite gigawatts of demand for new capacity, after a moratorium on new projects and a series of onerous and confusing regulatory changes drove investors out…...