Environmental lawyers are asking Alberta’s ethics commissioner to investigate an energy regulator board member and adviser to Premier Danielle Smith for conflicts of interest. The adviser, David Yager, also has his own oil and gas consulting company and has been...
VANCOUVER — Coastal First Nations in British Columbia have issued an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, asking him to reject any new proposal for a crude oil pipeline to the northwest coast. The move comes as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pushes for a new...
While there’s been a lot of talk about shipping out of Hudson Bay, most of that has focused on Churchill. But a competing project is in the works, with a terminus at Port Nelson. It’s called NeeStaNan, which means “All of us” in Cree. The idea...
ESTEVAN – When you walk to the end of the lane of Lori Carr’s acreage south of Estevan, there are several things that dominate the skyline. Beyond the hay bales is a pumpjack and a dragline. And beyond that dragline, you can see Shand Power Station in...
A month to the day after Saskatchewan announces its keeping coal, Alberta wind power generation output fell to 1.4% of nameplate capacity. That was just 80 megawatts out of a nameplate capacity of 5,688 megawatts. That’s according to data from the Alberta...
