The Nova Scotia government has granted environmental assessment approval for plans to build what it describes as the province’s largest wind energy project. On Thursday, the Environment Department issued a statement saying the Ocean Lake Wind Project proposed for...
By Lauren Krugel Alberta’s pitch to the major projects office for a new oil pipeline to the West Coast is being billed as a public-private partnership, though its current structure skews almost entirely toward the public end of the spectrum. Ninety per cent of...
By Lisa Johnson A petition led by country musician Corb Lund to ban new coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rockies has failed. Alberta’s election agency announced Friday that Lund’s petition didn’t gain enough verified signatures to move it...
CALGARY – A new West Coast Pipeline project was announced on July 2, and it’s a redux of the Trans Mountain Expansion – the one that was supposed to cost $7.5 billion and came in closer to $34 billion. Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle...
How many businesses can stay in operation when fully one quarter of their product that they sell in a month brings in exactly zero dollars? Because that’s exactly what happened for grid-scale power generators in Alberta for the month of June. According to data from...
In advance of Canada Day and an expected announcement on another West Coast pipeline, Prime Minister Mark Carney published this video on YouTube on June 30. Here is the text included with the video: “Today, we face an energy crisis on three levels. An...
