A day after threatening a national unity crisis, Premier Danielle Smith says she would strike a panel to poll Albertans on what to do if her list of demands is ignored. Smith, facing repeated questions from reporters in Calgary about how far she'd be willing to go in a renewed fight with Ottawa, said Friday she'd strike a second Fair Deal Panel to "listen to what it is that Albertans want to do in consequence." Smith's latest demands, posted on social media Thursday after a meeting with [Read more]

OTTAWA - A Mark Carney government will maintain the cap on emissions from the production of oil and gas, Environment Minister Terry Duguid said in a recent interview. Under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, the Liberals promised in the 2021 election to cap emissions from oil and gas and began the process to regulate the cap a year later. In November, they introduced draft regulations — two years behind schedule — that require producers to cut emissions by about one-third over the next [Read more]

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney are meeting today for the first time since he was sworn into office last week. The visit comes a day after Smith's United Conservative Party government tabled a bill that seeks to ban federal employees from accessing oil and gas facilities and the emissions data they contain. Critics and law professors say the province doesn't have the legal authority to do so, but Smith says she hopes Ottawa co-operates. Smith [Read more]

EDMONTON - Alberta's government is proposing a law it says would ban federal employees from going on any oil-related sites -- from wellheads to corporate head offices - but the NDP says it's an illegal and performative distraction. Premier Danielle Smith says the goal is to keep federal staffers away from any place where oil and gas production and emissions data might be located. Smith says it's necessary because she doesn’t trust how the federal government will calculate greenhouse gas [Read more]

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says plans for cleaning up abandoned or inactive oil wells are to be made public in two weeks. She says public funding won't be needed for the new initiatives, despite a draft government report leaked to media that explicitly says the opposite. The report recommends creating new companies backstopped by taxpayers that would acquire abandoned wells and use revenues from them to fund the cleanup. It also recommends setting up an insurance fund [Read more]

CALGARY - Alberta's energy minister says the government will never use public tax dollars to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells. Brian Jean says it will never be an option, despite a newly leaked government-funded report listing recommendations for how Alberta should reclaim its nearly 80,000 inactive wells. The recommendations include creating companies backstopped by taxpayers that would acquire abandoned wells and use revenues from them to fund the cleanup. It also recommends [Read more]