TransAlta wind farm near Pincher Creek, Alta., Wednesday, March 9, 2016.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh By Lauren Krugel Electricity generator TransAlta Corp. has announced plans to power a new data centre west of Edmonton in partnership with the Canada Pension Plan...
Alberta’s new budget will carry an eye-popping $9.4-billion deficit as the province, after decades of trying to get off a roller-coaster of oil revenues, seeks to manage the ride and weather the whiplash. The deficit is the largest since the COVID-19 era, a time of...
Remember when Germany came to Canada for LNG, and Trudeau took their Chancellor to Newfoundland for wind-generated hydrogen? The Newfoundland and Labrador government says it is owed more than $34 million in land reserve fees by several companies that had hoped to...
By Lauren Krugel Executives with crude shipper Enbridge Inc. say increased Venezuelan crude exports would not undermine its plans to send more Alberta oilsands barrels to Texas refineries. “The U.S. Gulf Coast is the world’s best heavy refining...
By Lauren Krugel Pipeline and power company TC Energy Corp. is looking to capitalize on the insatiable electricity demand from U.S. data centres, but it’s focused on tweaking its existing system to meet those needs instead of building from scratch....
