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...
By Lisa Johnson Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s office is shrugging off a United Conservative backbenchers’ public opposition to the government’s deal with Ottawa to get an oil pipeline built. Smith has long pointed to the memorandum of...
By Lauren Krugel The Alberta government is poised to make an announcement about its plans for a new West Coast oil pipeline on Thursday, but experts say industry skepticism is well warranted. Sam Blackett, press secretary to Premier Danielle Smith, said Tuesday that...
