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Has Ottawa facilitated or obstructed the spectacular post-1990 growth of oilsands production? The evidence is clear: the ...
Danielle Smith’s separation push is grabbing national attention, but at the heart of it lies Alberta’s oil and gas industry.
Smith has launched an ‘Alberta Next’ initiative to push back against federal policies seen as hostile to the province’s ...
Alberta is in every important way a modern petro-state. It is the heart of the Canadian oil-sands region, which is the result of a process that began 170 million years ago. From Oil Sands Magazine ...
The bigger problem will be for the Alberta government in its deficit." That's how Richard Masson, an executive fellow at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, sums up the impact of ...
No one should dispute the National Energy Program’s devastating impact on Alberta’s conventional oil and gas sector 40 years ago. But the oilsands, not conventional oil, propelled Canada to it ...
A new version of a government-commissioned report about Alberta’s inactive oil wells and what to do about them now says the province should manage a new insurance fund, rather than backstop it ...
The deal, among other things, slightly rejigged the energy-sharing proportions and reduced a much-reviled NEP export tax on Alberta oil to zero until the courts issued a ruling on Lougheed’s ...
CALGARY — An oil spill in a remote northwestern corner of Alberta has turned out to be the province’s largest in 36 years, according to regulators. A spill of that magnitude on a provincial pipeline ...
That’s what Danielle Smith, the Premier of the Alberta province, which is the heart of Canada’s oil industry, said this week, just after the Liberals led by Mark Carney won the federal ...
Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh A new version of a government-commissioned report about Alberta's inactive oil wells and what to do about them now says the province ...