CALGARY - The agency responsible for approving and assessing energy development in Alberta is laying off staff as it deals with budget cuts. The Alberta Energy Regulator says it laid off "a couple of dozen" staff Tuesday with more to come by the end of February. Gordon Lambert, interim CEO, says the changes are part of a restructuring that aims to make the regulator more effective, efficient, and resilient. He says the new structure is simpler, one with less hierarchy, less duplication [Read more]
Indigenous LNG supporters chide human rights advocates over pipeline comments
BURNS LAKE, B.C. - A collective of First Nations who support the liquefied natural gas industry in British Columbia say human rights advocates failed to do their research when they called for a pipeline project to be halted. The First Nations LNG Alliance has issued open letters to the B.C. human rights commissioner and the United Nations Committee to End Racial Discrimination over statements they made about the Coastal GasLink project. They called for the project to be stopped in the face [Read more]
Regina police arrest 14 union members during Co-op labour dispute
Regina's police chief says the city is being held "hostage" by a labour dispute between the Co-op Refinery and the union representing 700 of its workers. Evan Bray says officers arrested and charged 14 people with mischief yesterday after access was blocked to the plant. Unifor had announced it was going to prevent fuel trucks from leaving in an effort to shut down the facility. The union's national president, Jerry Dias, was among those arrested. Workers were locked out in early [Read more]
B.C. and Alberta Indigenous leaders demonstrate against major oilsands project
VANCOUVER - Indigenous leaders from British Columbia and Alberta who oppose Teck's Frontier mine say its impact will be felt by First Nations well beyond the site of the massive oilsands project. Members of Indigenous Climate Action, the Tiny House Warriors and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs were among those who gathered Monday in North Vancouver outside the office of Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson calling on him to stop the project. The Teck Frontier mine north of Fort McMurray, [Read more]
Calls for dialogue as pipeline polarizes some in northern British Columbia
HOUSTON, B.C. - A natural gas pipeline project has polarized many communities across northern British Columbia in a dispute a Wet'suwet'en elder says he hopes will be resolved through dialogue. Russell Tiljoe, 83, has long-established ties with the First Nation whose hereditary clan chiefs say the Coastal GasLink project has no authority to run through its 22,000 square kilometres of traditional territory without their consent. His own late father was one of the clan chiefs, but Tiljoe is [Read more]
Alberta court approves Encana reorganization, paving way for change next week
CALGARY - Encana Corp. says an Alberta court has approved the oil and gas company's reorganization that will see it move its headquarters to Denver from Calgary and change its name to Ovintiv Inc. The decision by the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta follows Tuesday's vote that saw 90 per cent of shareholders approve the change, despite public criticism from Encana founder Gwyn Morgan and shareholder Letko, Brosseau & Associates Inc. Encana announced the changes in October as part of a [Read more]
Miscommunication led to three people turned away at pipeline checkpoint: RCMP
VANCOUVER - The RCMP says miscommunication led to three people being turned away at a checkpoint along a logging road leading to a work site for a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia. Supporters of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs who oppose the Coastal GasLink project have set up three camps between the checkpoint and the work site. The Mounties say in a news release that there was some miscommunication as frontline police were implementing new access procedures after the [Read more]
Supreme Court to hear B.C. case attempting to halt Trans Mountain expansion
OTTAWA - Canada's high court will hear arguments Thursday on whether British Columbia can stop Alberta from shipping heavy oil through the Trans Mountain pipeline without a permit. B.C.'s NDP government brought the case in 2018 as it worked to fulfil an election promise to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. The province argues it should be able to limit the contents of the pipeline, because it would bear the brunt of environmental harm from any spill. The federal [Read more]
Pipeline at centre of B.C. conflict is creating jobs for First Nations: chief
A pipeline at the centre of a conflict between hereditary chiefs and a natural gas company in northern British Columbia is creating jobs for Indigenous people and lifting communities from poverty, says an elected chief of a band that supports the project. All 20 elected band councils along the Coastal GasLink pipeline route have signed benefits agreements with the company. The Haisla Nation in Kitimat is among them and Chief Coun. Crystal Smith said the project will help the community become [Read more]
Group cleaning up old oil wells says Alberta government rules inadequate
EDMONTON - A group tasked with cleaning up thousands of abandoned energy facilities in Alberta says the province's rules for ensuring polluters reclaim their wells before selling them off are inadequate. The industry-funded Orphan Well Association made the criticism in a letter to Alberta's energy regulator, which is considering a proposed transfer of hundreds of toxic gas wells, pipelines and other facilities from an energy giant to a much smaller company. "The (association) has seen a [Read more]
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