CALGARY - Enerflex Ltd. has named Paul Mahoney as the company's new president and chief executive, effective Sept. 29. Mahoney was group president, production and automation technologies at ChampionX Corp., which was acquired earlier this year by SLB. Enerflex board chair Kevin Reinhart says Mahoney, who will also join the company's board, is an accomplished and seasoned executive with broad industry experience. The company says Preet Dhindsa, who has been serving as interim chief [Read more]

OTTAWA - Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson says The federal government is in discussions with Alberta and oil companies on the federal emissions cap for the oil and gas industry. At a news conference in Winnipeg, Hodgson says both the province and industry agree with the government there needs to be a "fundamental change in the emissions intensity of the oilsands." He says they are in "productive" discussions on how they get to results, but will not "negotiate through the media" how that [Read more]

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her latest meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney has inspired optimism and he is demonstrating a "real shift" from the previous Justin Trudeau-led Liberals. Speaking in Edmonton, Smith says she found more common ground with the prime minister when she met with him this week than she has in any meeting with a prime minister. She also took to social media following her face-to-face to say that although there are details to be worked out, the [Read more]

EDMONTON - Prime Minister Mark Carney will today unveil his government's list of candidates for major projects that could get fast-track approval as he pushes to spur investment and grow the economy. Bill C-5, which moved through Parliament at lightning speed in the spring, is meant to streamline and speed up approvals for large infrastructure projects the prime minister and his cabinet decide are in the national interest. Carney's government launched a new office over the summer to hasten [Read more]

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is expected to reiterate her policy demands face-to-face with Prime Minister Mark Carney Wednesday while he's in Edmonton to meet with his Liberal caucus. Smith, on her weekend call-in radio show, says she's looking for "real movement" on nine federal policies she says have "pummeled" Alberta's economy and wellspring oil and gas industry. Her wish list includes scrapping the greenhouse gas emissions cap and re-writing Bill C-69, long labelled the "no [Read more]

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is planning to create standards for releasing treated oilsands tailings into the environment. Creating those standards is one of four new policy recommendations pitched by a government-appointed committee tasked over a year ago with studying tailings management options. Tailings are mixture of water, sand, bitumen residue and chemicals considered toxic to fish and other wildlife. As of 2023, nearly 1.4 trillion litres of the substance were stored in the [Read more]