CALGARY - The Alberta government is facing renewed criticism over its choice of panellists to head up its oilsands advisory group. The Wildrose party is calling for co-chair Tzeporah Berman and another appointee, Karen Mahon, to be fired. The opposition party claims Mahon sent out a fundraising email “imploring people to fight against the Kinder Morgan pipeline.” Berman is a well-known anti-oilsands advocate. She co-chairs the group with Dave Collyer, the former [Read more]
Alberta dairy farm settles with energy company over chemical contaminant
EDSON, Alta. - An Alberta farm family has reached a settlement with an energy company that tainted their land with chemicals. Bonavista Energy (TSX:BNP) has also been ordered by the Alberta Energy Regulator to begin extensive soil and groundwater remediation for the Saken dairy farm near Edson. "Ronald Saken, Lonni Saken and Bonavista Energy Corp. have been diligently working together to address that impact and have reached an agreement that is acceptable to both parties," said a [Read more]
Trump win won’t affect Alberta climate plans: environment minister
EDMONTON - The election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president shouldn't affect Alberta's efforts to combat climate change, the province's environment minister said Monday. Trump is widely expected to pull back on efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and move away from measures such as reducing coal-generated power and putting a price on carbon. In a phone call from United Nations climate meetings in Marrakech, Morocco, Shannon Phillips said that doesn't necessarily mean [Read more]
Mission to Asia: Trade minister says Trump win hasn’t changed Alberta’s plans
EDMONTON - Alberta's trade minister says Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. election last week hasn't changed the province's plan to diversify its economy by expanding new markets. Deron Bilous says a major delegation to China and Japan was planned long before the vote in the United States last week. Eighty organizations and businesses are joining Bilous on the 12-day mission. They include the economic development agencies of both Edmonton and Calgary. China and [Read more]
Bonavista ordered to clean up years-old solvent spill near Edson, Alta.
EDSON, Alta. - The Alberta Energy Regulator has ordered Bonavista Energy Corp. (TSX:BNP) to clean up soil and water contamination from a years-old spill near Edson, Alta. Well testing in 2014 showed the company's South Rosevear Gas Plant had leaked sulfolane, an industrial solvent used to purify natural gas, into well water supplies as far as two kilometres from the plant. Last year the AER ordered Bonavista to establish a long-term solution to supply a landowner with at least [Read more]
Trump presidency doesn’t change need for Canadian carbon price, says Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it's full steam ahead for his government's environmental plan — including a national carbon price — despite a Donald Trump presidency that will likely recast America's climate-change priorities. The Liberals have made the fight against climate change one of the motifs of their government since coming to power a year ago, and had a highly sympathetic Democratic partner in Washington under the administration of President Barack Obama. The [Read more]
Trump hostility toward OPEC seen as potential positive for Canadian crude oil
CALGARY - Donald Trump's hostility toward trade with OPEC oil producers and interest in U.S. energy security could boost demand for Canadian oil as he assumes the president's office, says the head of a Calgary commodity trading firm. Canada provided about 43 per cent of the nine million barrels per day of oil imported by the United States last year, versus about 36 per cent by OPEC, says Tim Pickering, founder and chief investment officer of Auspice Capital. "Trump has talked [Read more]
Kinder Morgan president backs off climate change remarks
EDMONTON - The president of the company behind the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion proposal has backed off earlier remarks in which he suggested he was unsure humans are contributing to climate change. "My comments didn't come out quite right," Ian Anderson of Kinder Morgan told the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. Last week, Anderson said in Vancouver that there was disagreement about the degree to which people are causing global warming and that he didn't know [Read more]
Offshore oil and gas auction brings in $758M for Newfoundland and Labrador
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador has pulled in $758 million in work commitments for offshore oil and gas development in a licence auction that ended Wednesday. The figure is down from the $1.2 billion in commitments the province received in last year's auction in the same region a few hundred kilometres off the east coast of Newfoundland. The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board offered 16 parcels totalling about 3.3 million hectares in the latest [Read more]
TransCanada says it remains fully committed to building Keystone XL
CALGARY - TransCanada Corp. says it's evaluating ways to engage the newly elected Donald Trump administration on the potential benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline. Company spokesman Mark Cooper said Wednesday that TransCanada (TSX:TRP) remains fully committed to building the controversial project that U.S. President Barack Obama rejected last year. President-elect Trump has said he is in favour of the 1,900-kilometre pipeline, and invited TransCanada to reapply for approval as [Read more]
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