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Threatened by Coal, Ranchers Take the Kenney Government to Court
Threatened by Coal, Ranchers Take the Kenney Government to Court Alberta is poised to let miners destroy mountaintops and vital watersheds grazed for a century. Mac Blades (foreground) carries on his family’s 100-year ranching tradition on the slopes of Alberta’s Rockies. He and his wife Renie joined a lawsuit to stop open-pit coal mining in […]
Alberta’s Environment Minister Cheered on Coal Mining in New Areas before Restrictions Were Dropped
Alberta’s Environment Minister Cheered on Coal Mining in New Areas before Restrictions Were Dropped Months before ending the Coal Policy, the Kenney government issued letters of support for open-pit projects. Coal mining along Alberta’s Rockies. Months before a large zone along the eastern slopes was opened to coal strip mining, two Alberta ministers endorsed an […]
What Kenney Had to Kill to Embrace Coal
What Kenney Had to Kill to Embrace Coal Alberta’s 1976 Coal Policy protected vital drinking water supplies for much of the province. That’s gone now. Under the cover of a pandemic, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney quietly wiped away a near half-century of safeguards against open pit coal mining in most of the province’s Rocky Mountains […]
This Energy Analyst Says the Oil Sands Are ‘Done’
This Energy Analyst Says the Oil Sands Are ‘Done’ COVID-19 is making many bearish about bitumen. Deborah Lawrence’s past pessimism has proven unpopular, and correct. Deborah Lawrence used to be a stockbroker with Merrill Lynch. Over the past decade, the independent economic analyst has developed a reputation for telling oil investors what they don’t want […]
Alberta’s Meat Plant Workers Share Their Fears and Anger
Alberta’s Meat Plant Workers Share Their Fears and Anger As Cargill prepares to reopen, voices from the frontlines of Canada’s largest COVID-19 outbreak. They fear the virus. They are concerned about the futures. They worry for their communities. And they say neither the government nor two foreign-owned companies, which account for 70 per cent of […]
Jason Kenney’s Other Pipeline War Is with Michigan
Jason Kenney’s Other Pipeline War Is with Michigan Locals say Enbridge’s aging Line 5 is a disaster waiting to happen and Alberta’s premier should butt out. Locals urging the aging pipeline be closed down fear it could imperil drinking water for tens of millions of people. Some wonder why Kenney, who has claimed Alberta is […]
Crazy Days in Alberta: The Poison Wells File
Crazy Days in Alberta: The Poison Wells File The province let oil and gas firms create a $100-billion disaster. They expect you to foot the bill. Every day something crazy happens in Alberta to illustrate how thoroughly oil politics have eroded the province’s grip on reality. Judy Aldous, who hosts a province-wide CBC Radio noon […]
Trudeau will fuel the fires of our climate crisis if he approves Canada’s mega mine
Trudeau will fuel the fires of our climate crisis if he approves Canada’s mega mine Alberta’s oil sands produce one of the dirtiest oils on the planet. If the Teck mega mine is approved, the damage to our planet will be colossal This week, the Canadian government is in Madrid telling the world that climate […]
Enviros Tools of Russians? The Weird Conspiracy Theory Firing up Kenney’s Inquiry
Enviros Tools of Russians? The Weird Conspiracy Theory Firing up Kenney’s Inquiry SPECIAL REPORT: Alberta’s ‘anti-energy’ probe makes a debunked US report its must-read. Russian Attempts to Influence U.S. Domestic Energy Markets by Exploiting Social Media was produced by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology, which at the time was led […]
Wexit: Will Alberta Ditch Canada?
Wexit: Will Alberta Ditch Canada? The re-election of Justin Trudeau has revved up Wexit talk in Canada. Brexit, Italexit, Frexit, Nexit, CalExit, Texit, and now Wexit? What likely started as a social media campaign to air a considerable portion of the electorate’s grievances against the federal government, a serious political movement in Canada may be born. Would this have serious ramifications […]
Alberta Imposes New Fracking Restrictions Near Dam after Quakes
Alberta Imposes New Fracking Restrictions Near Dam after Quakes Restrictions come as industry-related tremors have rattled nerves and raised concerns. The regulator’s new regulations follow a wave of tremors set off by Canada’s oil and gas industry, as well as the release of major scientific papers documenting how fracking and other forms of fluid injection […]
Accelerate New Oil Wells, Abandon the Old Ones, All the While Burning
Accelerate New Oil Wells, Abandon the Old Ones, All the While Burning Alberta in a nutshell, under new leader Jason Kenney’s trajectory. The urgency to expedite new petroleum projects stands in stark contrast to the utter disinterest in cleaning up the old ones. Alberta is perhaps unique in the world in having no mandatory timelines […]
Pipeline Bottlenecks Cost Canadian Producers $20 Billion
Pipeline Bottlenecks Cost Canadian Producers $20 Billion Canada has plenty of oil, and demand is high, but the Canadian oil industry has nevertheless taken a major hit this year thanks to its persisting pipeline bottleneck. The Albertan oil industry has long been plagued by insufficient pipeline volumes but has not been able to fix the […]
Both Notley and Kenney Hiding from a $260-Billion Cleanup Problem
Both Notley and Kenney Hiding from a $260-Billion Cleanup Problem The Alberta government may well leave taxpayers to clean up the oil and gas industry’s mess. The main thing Jason Kenney and Rachel Notley have in common, other than their affinity for pipelines, is their joint fear of the possible $260-billion cleanup bill for the […]
More Frack Quakes Rattle Alberta, Cause Deaths in China
More Frack Quakes Rattle Alberta, Cause Deaths in China Regulator shuts down operations near Red Deer. Thousands protest in Sichuan. On Monday Albertans living around the oil-service city of Red Deer, got an early morning wake-up call – a 4.6 earthquake. Vesta Energy, a privately owned oil and gas company, halted its fracking operations west […]
