MONTREAL - TransCanada has heeded the Quebec government's request for a deeper review of Energy East, agreeing to provide more detailed information about the pipeline project.Environment Minister David Heurtel says the Calgary-based company filed paperwork as required under Quebec's Environment Quality Act and will have to produce an impact study by June 6.Friday's announcement also puts on hold a review process conducted by Quebec's environmental review agency.A second round of Energy East [Read more]
Alberta regulator to study risks of aging energy infrastructure
CALGARY - Alberta's energy regulator is studying the risks posed by the province's aging energy hardware."Aging infrastructure is an issue for the province," said Jim Ellis, head of the agency which released a three-year strategic plan this week.Ellis said the regulator has already compiled a database that locates and assesses Alberta's thousands of abandoned wells. Now it's time to do the same for pipelines, wellheads, compressor stations and all the other industrial facilities a century of [Read more]
Premier Brad Wall says Saskatchewan deficit will be higher than forecast
REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says the deficit in the upcoming provincial budget could be higher than initially forecast.The government was hoping to get the deficit down to about $260 million in the budget that is to be tabled June 1."I think it's going to be higher than that," Wall said Friday at the legislature."We haven't gone through the (finalization) process yet, but because of the softening in revenue, significant softening in resource revenue, we might be looking at a higher [Read more]
Alberta’s Notley rethinking skepticism on Northern Gateway pipeline: spokeswoman
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is rethinking her stance on the Northern Gateway pipeline as her government and British Columbia work on a deal that could see a pipeline to the West Coast swapped for the purchase of electricity.Notley's spokeswoman Cheryl Oates said Thursday that talks are ongoing."B.C. is really looking to export their hydroelectricity," said Oates. "Alberta does not have a market for B.C.'s hydroelectricity unless we get our product to tidewater. So there's a common [Read more]
Alberta sets out details of modernized conventional oil and gas royalties
CALGARY - The Alberta government has released details of its new royalty regime, which is says bring clarity and certainty to conventional oil and gas drilling.The province has simplified the system with a single structure for crude oil, gas and liquids that takes into account the growth of unconventional wells that use horizontal drilling and fracking.Under the new regime, companies will pay a five per cent flat rate royalty until costs are recovered, after which royalty rates will range [Read more]
‘The sky is gonna be blue!’ Conservatives win big majority in Manitoba election
WINNIPEG — An orange dynasty stretching back to the 1990s fell Tuesday as Manitoba voters painted the political landscape a hue of Tory blue. Brian Pallister's Progressive Conservatives routed Premier Greg Selinger and the New Democrats to put an end to 16 years of the NDP in power. Pallister, a former Canadian Alliance MP, joins Premier Brad Wall of Saskatchewan as another voice of conservatism on the Prairies. With all the polls counted, the Tories won 40 of the 57 seats, with the NDP [Read more]
Oil sector market will determine if Canada’s GHGs fall in 2016, says McKenna
OTTAWA - Market conditions in the oil patch will largely determine whether Canada's emissions of greenhouse gases decline this year, says federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is poised to sign the Paris climate agreement later this week at the United Nations in New York, after making the fight against climate change a central theme of his new Liberal government.But Trudeau carries with him to New York the latest official government inventory of Canadian [Read more]
Exodus? Newfoundland and Labrador’s bleak finances fuel angst for the future
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador had the world by the tail five years ago when former premier Danny Williams welcomed students attending a leadership conference to "Canada's coolest province."The treasury was flush with offshore oil money. New schools were under construction, roads were being paved, and chic restaurants catering to high-flying executives with fat expense accounts were doing brisk business in St. John's.It was a taste of prosperity especially savoured in a province [Read more]
Vancouver asks feds for broader scope in pipeline environmental assessment
VANCOUVER - The City of Vancouver is urging the federal government to take a broader look at greenhouse gas emissions when considering the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.City manager Sadhu Johnston has written a letter to Environment and Climate Change Canada saying the department should look at downstream emissions created from processing, refining, transporting and using the pipeline's oil when assessing environmental impact.Kinder Morgan wants to triple the capacity of the [Read more]
Four of six appeals of Nova Scotia gas storage project dismissed by province
INDIAN BROOK, N.S. - Nova Scotia's minister of the environment has dismissed four of six appeals opposing the province's decision to approve a new underground natural gas storage facility.The province is declining to reveal which four groups have had their appeals of the Alton Natural Gas storage facility project denied, citing privacy laws.The Indian Brook First Nation had issued a statement in February saying it would submit an appeal, arguing the facility north of Halifax shouldn't be [Read more]
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