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Jason Kenney’s Favourite Researcher Just Gave Him a Headache
Jason Kenney’s Favourite Researcher Just Gave Him a Headache What does the UCP do now that Vivian Krause says she never said Canadian enviro groups were being used by US oil interests? Premier Jason Kenney based his ‘Public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns’ on the theory the province was being targeted to benefit US interests. Photo […]
Sorry Cranky Conservatives! Carbon Pricing Wins the Day
Sorry Cranky Conservatives! Carbon Pricing Wins the Day The Supreme Court ruling is good news for anyone invested in a habitable planet. But fixing the climate is going to take more. ‘There’s no court we can appeal this to,’ Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said on Thursday, before vowing to continue his fight. What taxpayer-funded mischief […]
When Is Mountaintop Removal Not Mountaintop Removal? In Alberta, of Course!
When Is Mountaintop Removal Not Mountaintop Removal? In Alberta, of Course! The Kenney government plays word games as it plans to strip-mine the Rockies. Does this look like mountaintop removal to you? Coal mining underway in Elk Valley, BC, on the west side of the Rockies across from where Alberta plans similar mining. Photo by Callum […]
Months Before Albertans Were Told, Australian Miners Knew Plans to Axe Coal Policy
Months Before Albertans Were Told, Australian Miners Knew Plans to Axe Coal Policy Investor presentations signalled the Kenney government aimed to open protected lands to open-pit mining. Documents show Australian firms seeking open-pit coal mining leases in Alberta got signals protections to sensitive lands would be lifted, clearing the way. The public only found out […]
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 […]
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 […]
Is Jason Kenney Ready to Bet Albertan Pensions on Failing Fossil Fuel Firms?
Is Jason Kenney Ready to Bet Albertan Pensions on Failing Fossil Fuel Firms? The UCP government is moving to take control of citizens’ savings — and they should be very worried. Cautious. Reliable. Boring. Those are words that are appropriately associated with pension fund management. However, pensions have recently become a hot button political issue […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
