For three of four days last week, Alberta saw its wind power generation utterly collapse. On Friday, May 12, Alberta’s wind generation fell to the lowest number Pipeline Online has seen in 17 months of following the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO). At 7:25...
By Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says the time...
By James McCarten in Washington The controversial Canada-U.S. oil and gas conduit known as Line 5 could be facing its toughest challenger yet: the very watershed the pipeline’s detractors are trying to protect. Spring flooding has washed away significant...
By Bob Weber in Edmonton Few governments have seen as many environmental dust-ups as Alberta’s United Conservatives in their four-year tenure. They tried delisting parks and opening the Rocky Mountains to coal mining. They charged fees for a beloved...
By Amanda Stephenson in Calgary Crescent Point Energy Corp. is increasing its use of hedging to protect itself against commodity price swings. Like other Canadian energy producers, the Calgary-based oil and gas company — which has drilling operations in Alberta,...
REGINA, WASHINGTON – In 2011, the Government of Saskatchewan and SaskPower made the decision to go ahead with post-combustion carbon capture on Boundary Dam Unit 3. By 2014, a few months delayed and a few hundred million over budget, the $1.6 billion project was...
