CALGARY - A major Canadian electricity producer is successfully off coal power in this country, nine years ahead of a government deadline. Calgary-based Trans-Alta Corp. announced Wednesday it has finished its planned transition from coal to natural gas in its Canadian power generation. The company said the recently completed conversion of the Keephills Unit 3 power plant west of Edmonton was the last of three coal-to-gas conversions at its Alberta thermal power generation [Read more]

The RCMP say they are investigating allegations that protesters threatened security officials, set off flares and damaged vehicles at a drill site for the Coastal GasLink pipeline in northern British Columbia. The Mounties say in a statement released Monday that officers were called to the site along a forest service road near Houston on Sunday. They say anyone blocking worker access to the area is in breach of a court-ordered injunction. Opposition to the pipeline project among [Read more]

Trans Mountain's chief operating officer says the pipeline will likely return to full capacity in late January at "the earliest" as work continues after fallout from torrential rains that the company says will cost tens of millions of dollars. The pipeline shut down on Nov. 14 as a precaution following floods in the area of Hope, B.C., and came back online last week. Michael Davies, head of operations at the federally owned company, says the 21-day shutdown marks the longest in the [Read more]

CALGARY - Premier Jason Kenney used his first address to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce since the start of the pandemic to tout the recovery of Alberta's economy amid high energy prices. Saying that 'Alberta is back', he noted that in the first quarter next year the provincial GDP is expected to finally surpass the level it was in 2014 before a crash in oil prices pushed the province into recession. He says that is a sharp turnaround from the early days of the pandemic when unemployment [Read more]