Premier Danielle Smith invoked Alberta’s sovereignty act on Monday to implement new measures in her fight against Ottawa’s looming clean electricity rules while conceding she didn’t need the act to put the changes in place. Smith said she wanted to invoke the...
Canada’s oil and gas well drilling sector is lobbying for a piece of the tax credit pie when it comes to decarbonization. The Canadian Association of Energy Contractors (CAOEC) — which represents drilling rig and service rig companies across Western Canada, as...
Federal security officials have been briefing leaders of major energy and utility firms on cyberthreats, one element of a concerted government effort to underscore the serious risks to the sector. A newly disclosed Public Safety Canada memo reveals a secret-level June...
A British Columbia cabinet minister says she mistakenly dropped a memo to herself describing a “big and shiny” affordability measure that mysteriously ended up in the hands of the Opposition BC United party. In the document, Minister of Energy, Mines, and...
The Manitoba government introduced a bill Thursday to suspend the province’s fuel tax for six months, and possibly longer. If the bill is passed into law, it would lift the 14-cent-a-litre tax on gas, diesel and natural gas used in vehicles between Jan. 1 and...
