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...
The Globe and Mail wrote a piece about grid-scale batteries in Alberta, highlighting Enfinite, which has built a fleet of 20-megawatt grid-scale batteries across the province. Six are online so far, and more will go online in the coming days. However, there’s a...
When the sun is highest in the sky, solar power generation is supposed to be at its peak. That’s the idea, anyway. Reality is sometimes different, as at noon on Thursday, Nov. 23, solar power generation in Alberta was producing just 10 per cent of its nameplate...
On Nov. 23, federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault tweeted, “Groundbreaking report from @IEA, showing that Canada continues to demonstrate global leadership. The key: our oil & gas sector must accelerate investments to reduce...
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...
