EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney applauded a court decision Tuesday clearing another legal hurdle in the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project and offered some kind words for the prime minister. Kenney acknowledged he has locked horns with Justin Trudeau on many energy issues, but said the prime minister had been as good as his word on the Trans Mountain project. "I have my disagreements with Prime Minister Trudeau on a number of issues ... but I think they did realize there has [Read more]
Saskatchewan premier forms cabinet committee on pipeline expansions
REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has put together a committee of cabinet ministers to assess how the government could help get more pipelines built in the province. Moe says the ministers are to review potential projects and suggest how the government could advance them, including through possible investment. The ministers of environment, trade and export development, energy and resources, and finance make up the committee. Moe says his Saskatchewan Party government recognizes [Read more]
Federal Court to rule on Trans Mountain pipeline expansion challenge
VANCOUVER - The Federal Court of Appeal is set to release its decision on the latest challenge of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion today. Four First Nations from British Columbia filed court challenges after the federal government approved the project a second time last June. A court hearing in December focused on the government's consultation with the First Nations between August 2018 and June 2019. The consultation took place after the Court of Appeal struck down [Read more]
Alberta premier heads to Montreal and Washington, D.C. to talk business and pipelines
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney will travel to Montreal and Washington, D.C., this week. A statement from Kenney's office says the trip, which starts Monday and continues until next Sunday, will promote the government's work to drive investment, expand Alberta exports and get pipelines built. The statement says Kenney will meet with business leaders in Montreal and do media interviews. In Washington, he's set to attend National Governors Association meetings along with Ontario [Read more]
Regulators revisit environmental review for Line 3 pipeline
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota regulators opened a hearing Friday on an updated environmental review for Enbridge Energy's plan to replace its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline across the state, but most testimony focused on broader questions of whether the project even be built. Environmental and tribal activists urged the Public Utilities Commission to reconsider its earlier approvals and kill the project, saying climate change has reached a crisis stage. But the project's supporters, including [Read more]
Alberta, Fort McKay to meet in three months on fate of Moose Lake protected area
EDMONTON - The Alberta government and the Fort McKay First Nation have agreed to meet again in three months to decide the fate of one of the last areas in the band's territory that hasn't been impacted by oilsands development. In 2018, the band thought it had a deal putting a 10-kilometre buffer around Moose Lake. But the deal wasn't ratified and Alberta's energy regulator later approved an oilsands mine that would come within two kilometres of the shore. The First Nation is fighting [Read more]
Dow to build Alberta ethylene plant expansion for more than US$200 million
CALGARY - U.S. chemical producer Dow Inc. has approved an expansion of its Alberta petrochemical facilities expected to cost between US$200 million and US$225 million. While releasing its fourth-quarter results this week, CEO Jim Fitterling announced the Michigan-based company will increase capacity at its Fort Saskatchewan ethylene plant just north of Edmonton by about 130,000 tonnes per year by adding a process furnace. He says Dow will equally share costs of the expansion and the [Read more]
Federal Court of Appeal to release decision in Trans Mountain challenge
VANCOUVER - The Federal Court of Appeal is set to release its decision on the latest challenge of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion on Tuesday. Four First Nations from British Columbia filed court challenges after the federal government approved the project a second time last June. A court hearing in December was specifically focused on the government's consultation with the First Nations between August 2018 and June 2019. The consultation took place after the Court of Appeal struck [Read more]
Oilsands producer Cenovus pledges $50 million to build Indigenous housing
CALGARY - Indigenous leaders say they hope other companies will follow the lead of Cenovus Energy Inc. after it pledged to give $10 million per year over the next five years to support housing in six northern Alberta communities near its oilsands operations. Shirley Paradis, a councillor for the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, says the money is needed because the community's housing resources are stretched to the limit and government funding is inadequate to address the growing population. Vern [Read more]
Alberta panel suggests schools ‘balance’ lessons about climate change, oilsands
CALGARY - Alberta's education minister is endorsing a panel report that recommends school children learn all view about climate change along with the value of the province's oil and gas sector. Adriana LaGrange says she is receiving reports from parents of "extremist views" being taught in schools. "There was a particular document that was shown to me recently — and I currently have my department exploring — in terms of our children being taught that they are the final generation to deal [Read more]
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