CALGARY - Pembina Pipeline Corp. says it will defer making a final investment decision on its proposed Cedar LNG project until mid-2024. The Calgary-based pipeline company and its project partner, the Haisla First Nation, have been working to develop plans for a floating liquefied natural gas facility in Kitimat, B.C. The project partners had previously said a decision to go ahead with the project could be made before the end of the first quarter, with onshore construction work starting as [Read more]
Alberta First Nations seek answers on carbon capture and storage plans
Seven Alberta First Nations have banded together to seek answers as industry and government move on billion-dollar plans to inject and store millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases underneath or adjacent to their traditional lands. "We don't know how pumping carbon underground will affect our lakes, our rivers — even our underground reservoirs," said councillor Michael Lameman of Beaver Lake Cree Nation, one of the members of the Treaty 6 working group. "(Industry's) been vague, not very [Read more]
Alberta NDP leadership candidate says federal carbon levy is ‘dead’
CALGARY - Alberta's former deputy premier entered the province's NDP leadership Sunday with criticism of the federal carbon levy and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Sarah Hoffman, who was deputy premier when the NDP was elected in 2015, joins fellow legislature members Kathleen Ganley and Rakhi Pancholi in the race to replace Rachel Notley, who announced last month she was stepping down. The new leader is to be chosen in June. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Hoffman, 43, said [Read more]
Protectionist policy promises in U.S. election will be a challenge: Alberta premier
WASHINGTON - Premier Danielle Smith says no matter the outcome of the United States election, there will be challenges for Canada and Alberta. She said both President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump have policies that could harm or restrict trade with Canada. "Both have protectionist policies that would be damaging to our country and our province," Smith said at the Canadian Embassy in Washington on Thursday. Trump, who has become the Republican party front-runner in the [Read more]
Enbridge appeals to vacate an order that would shut down its pipeline
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An attorney for the energy company Enbridge tried to persuade a federal appellate court Thursday to vacate an order that would shut down part of a pipeline running through a Wisconsin tribal reservation. The company contends that U.S. District Judge William Conley improperly ordered Enbridge to shut down a 12 mile (19 km) portion of Line 5 within three years. The section runs across the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa's reservation. Conley also ordered the [Read more]
Bill to update impact assessment law coming in spring: Wilkinson
OTTAWA - Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says the government will have legislation ready by the spring to fix the constitutional problems the Supreme Court has with the federal Impact Assessment Act. The Liberals passed the act in 2019 to overhaul how major projects are assessed for their environmental and social impacts. In October, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the law was too broad because it allowed Ottawa to wade into provincial jurisdiction. The new legislation [Read more]
AIMCo sets up $1B fund to invest in energy transition opportunities
EDMONTON - The Alberta Investment Management Corp. has set up a new $1-billion fund dedicated to investing in the global energy transition and decarbonization sectors. The investment manager says the money represents new capital and investments made through the fund will be in addition to its other climate-related investments across asset classes. AIMCo chief investment officer Marlene Puffer says it has been strategically evaluating climate change risks and opportunities for the last [Read more]
Alberta government opens water-sharing talks with large users amid worsening drought
EDMONTON - The Alberta government says it's opening talks on water-sharing between large water users as the province's drought situation worsens. Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz says negotiations between water licence holders in three southern Alberta river basins are to start this week. She says if a severe drought occurs this summer, the voluntary agreements would see major users take less water to help others downstream. There are currently 51 water shortage advisories in the [Read more]
A timeline of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion’s major milestones and setbacks
CALGARY - The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is facing delay yet again, as the company responsible for building the project reported Monday it has run into a fresh construction-related challenge in B.C. Here's a look back at the history of the project, and the milestones and setbacks it has experienced up to now: March 21, 1951: The Trans Mountain Pipeline Company is established via a charter granted by the Parliament of Canada, with the intent of building a pipeline to carry oil from [Read more]
Trans Mountain expansion runs into ‘technical issues,’ completion delay possible
CALGARY - The company behind the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion says it has encountered technical issues which could mean a delay in the project's completion. In a statement on its website Monday, Trans Mountain Corp. says it needs additional time to determine the safest and most prudent actions for minimizing further delay. It says the technical issues were discovered between Jan. 25 and Jan. 27. Trans Mountain Corp. says it will not provide an interview. The company says it is [Read more]
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