CALGARY - Alberta's NDP leader spent the final day of the provincial election campaign contrasting her winning-hearts-and-minds approach to building pipelines with the more combative strategy of her chief rival. Rachel Notley donned a hard hat and work boots Monday as she toured a pipe fabrication yard in Calgary, a key battleground in Tuesday's election. "Through patient and determined action, we have built a durable national consensus on the need for pipelines," she said, the occasional [Read more]
Alberta election promised titanic clash, delivered name calling, bozo eruptions
EDMONTON - Alberta's election campaign promised a titanic clash of ideas and ideologies between two nationally known leaders, but delivered a burlesque of biting attacks and bozo eruptions — and a surprise guest appearance by the RCMP. Rachel Notley will make history Tuesday as either the first Alberta NDP premier to win re-election or the first-ever leader of an Alberta party that failed to win a renewed mandate on its first try. A win for Jason Kenney's United Conservatives, as [Read more]
Gas stations that don’t display carbon tax sticker could be fined up to $10K
TORONTO - Buried in Ontario's budget bill are fines of up to $10,000 per day for gas station operators who don't display government-mandated stickers about the price of the carbon tax. The budget contains a new piece of legislation called the Federal Carbon Tax Transparency Act that would require gas stations to display the sticker on each pump. The sticker shows the federal carbon tax adding 4.4 cents per litre to the price of gas now, and rising to 11 cents a litre in 2022. The [Read more]
Trump wields presidential power on energy projects such as stalled Keystone XL
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump is eager to jump-start energy projects such as the TransCanada Keystone XL oil pipeline, and he's taken action to assert executive power over such infrastructure. The president last month issued a new permit for the stalled Keystone project, which would move Alberta crude to U.S. refineries, insisting it's an exercise of presidential authority that's not subject to judicial review. And Trump has now signed another order clarifying the [Read more]
Hasn’t campaigned with federal leader: NDP’s Notley says her focus on Alberta
CALGARY - Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley says she hasn't campaigned with the federal party leader because her focus is on what's best for the province — including pipelines. During a campaign stop in Calgary today, Notley was asked about a Thursday rally with federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and Alberta United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney. They attacked what they call the "Notley-Trudeau alliance." Notley said the Kenney-Scheer rally makes her wonder if [Read more]
Metro Vancouver drivers see another painful record as gas prices jump
VANCOUVER - The cost of fuel around Metro Vancouver is rising again, break previous record-high prices that were set only a week ago. Prices at some Vancouver-area stations were listed at $1.68.9 per litre early Friday, a jump of more than one cent overnight and an increase of about five cents since last Thursday. Analysts blame the trend on issues ranging from gas shortages to reduced capacity at refineries in the western United States as those facilities do annual maintenance [Read more]
Pipeline delays add appeal to creative options for oil transport, transformation
CALGARY - News that permitting issues in the U.S. would delay Enbridge Inc.'s Line 3 replacement pipeline project until the middle of 2020 instead of late this year means that yet another boost in oil export capacity has been kicked down the road. With both the Trans Mountain expansion and Keystone XL pipeline projects in court limbo, attention is turning to alternative ideas to expand Canada's ability to continue to get its oil to market. In a report to Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet [Read more]
UCP’s Kenney takes pro-pipeline message to Fort McMurray, accuses NDP of selling out
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney took his pro-pipeline message to the heart of Alberta's oilpatch Wednesday and promised to push back on policies he said are hollowing out Canada's core industry. Kenney told supporters at a rally in Fort McMurray that a UCP government would fight B.C. and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government if they continued to impede the oil sector. Kenney has promised he would go to court to fight proposed federal legislation on how [Read more]
Northern Alberta chiefs to support federal environmental bill at Senate hearing
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Northern Alberta Indigenous leaders warn that watering down the federal government's proposed environmental assessment law would only doom energy projects to more years of court wrangling. Four Athabasca-area chiefs are to speak to a Senate committee Wednesday in Fort McMurray, Alta., about Bill C-69. They say criticism of the bill from Alberta and the energy industry is "riddled with errors." The chiefs, who represent bands in the oilsands region, say the [Read more]
No pedal to floor: Experts say no government can bring back Alberta bitumen boom
EDMONTON - Getting Alberta's economy running on all its fossil-fuel-powered cylinders is at the heart of the province's election campaign. But some of Canada's top energy thinkers — as well as international experts — warn there's no pedal any premier can stomp to make that engine rev like it used to. "No policy of any Alberta government can change things," said Mark Jaccard, an energy economist at B.C.'s Simon Fraser University, who has advised governments on climate policy and [Read more]
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