Alberta

24/01/22
Author: 
Primary Author: Mitchell Beer
Alberta Newsroom/flickr

Jan. 24, 2022

The federal government is looking into independent analysis claiming that carbon capture at a highly-touted Shell Canada demonstration project in Alberta is producing more greenhouse gas emissions than it prevents, The Energy Mix has learned.

24/01/22
Author: 
David Climenhaga
Truckers and supporters against a federal vaccine mandate in Delta before departing for Ottawa on Jan. 23. They vow to snarl traffic on their route. Photo by Darryl Dyck, the Canadian Press.

Jan. 24, 2022

The convoy that left BC Sunday raised $2 million. A key organizer is said to be a big figure in the Alberta separatist scene.

An online fund-raising campaign organized by a person associated with the Maverick Party and other western separatist causes now indicates it has raised close to $2 million in the week to bankroll highway disruptions by truckers angry at Ottawa for imposing a vaccine mandate on cross-border essential workers.

The convoy departed B.C. for Ottawa on Sunday.

12/01/22
Author: 
Nelson Bennett
The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will increase its capacity from 300,000 to 890,000 barrels per day. (Trans Mountain)

Dec. 11, 2022

Trans Mountain has a lot of work to do in 2022 if it is to meet December in-service date

Trans Mountain Corporation has a lot of work to do in 2022 if it hopes to meet the target in-service date for its expanded pipeline and its capital budget of $12.6 billion.

Trans Mountain can only pray Mother Nature does not throw more wildfires, floods, or plagues at it this year.

According to recent third quarter financial reports, the project is only half built and 71% of the $12.6 billion capital budget spent.

10/01/22
Author: 
Devika Krishna Kumar
A heavy hauler truck drives through a mine above the Athabasca oil sands near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Photographer: Ben Nelms/Bloomberg

Jan. 7, 2022

Canada's oil sands producers were able to export a record amount of crude to overseas markets thanks to a new link to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

02/01/22
Author: 
Primary Author: Mitchell Beer
Pulling oil from the tar sands - Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace

December 17, 2021

The Canada Energy Regulator is so closely tied to the fossil industry that it can’t be counted on to produce independent advice on the country’s path to net-zero—yet it’s considered the leading source of in-house energy modelling the Trudeau government has at its disposal, according to an independent expert commenting on the CER’s deeply flawed energy futures report released earlier this month.

02/01/22
Author: 
Aaron Saad
Mídia NINJA - Climate March during COP26 • 05/11/2021 • Glasgow / Scotland (UK

Dec. 28, 2021

As powerful countries keep sinking climate goals, activists likely to escalate tactics rather than accept an increasingly unlivable world

1.5, barely alive

Shortly before the close of this year’s United Nations climate negotiations in Glasgow, UN Secretary General António Guterres offered a sobering summary of the global efforts to address the climate emergency.

15/12/21
Author: 
Justin Hunter
Material for the Trans Mountain Pipeline project sits in a storage lot outside of Abbotsford, B.C., on June 6. COLE BURSTON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Right! Tweaking! Will that be once a year or once every 6 months or.... How about when the pipeline is ruptured? Gene McGuckin
 
And the expansion is not to serve the Lower Mainland but for exporting oil! - Editor
 
Dec. 14, 2021
 
29/11/21
Author: 
Jeremy Appel - Cargill correspondent for Rankandfile.ca

Nov. 27, 2021

Workers at Cargill’s High River, Alberta meatpacking facility have overwhelmingly rejected the company’s latest contract offer and management has escalated tensions by serving a lockout notice. 

25/11/21
Author: 
Alex Ballingall
Peter Julian and Jagmeet Singh

[Editor: Note that the expansion is not slated to supply local refineries.]

Nov. 24, 2021

OTTAWA—NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is not pushing to cancel the government-owned Trans Mountain expansion, even though a veteran MP in his caucus is calling for an immediate halt to construction of the controversial oil pipeline project.

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