Emma McIntosh, David Bruser
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News, Energy, Politics
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November 23rd 2018
What is clear is that the technique is unproven, and by conditionally approving industry plans that include it, Alberta officials are signaling they still have no idea how they’re going to clean up the waste of the oilpatch.
The staggering estimate of $260 billion in financial liabilities for the oil and gas industry’s graveyard of spent facilities were spelled out by a high-ranking official of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) in a February presentation to a private audience in Calgary.
Mike De Souza, Carolyn Jarvis, Emma McIntosh, David Bruser
Many thousands of Quebecers have mobilized to demand decisive measures to fight climate change as Premier François Legault’s new government and opposition legislators prepare to convene for the first time since the Oct. 1 election.
"We’re striking the right balance," the Alberta premier said Thursday, after the announcement at a meeting of the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors at the Petroleum Club in Calgary.
Ontario’s immigration minister attacked the Trudeau government’s policies on border crossers just days after turning down a federal offer to get briefed on the same issue.
Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod introduced the major planks of the new plan on Thursday. It proposes to increase the amount that someone on welfare is allowed to earn before their support payments are clawed back. It also proposes to increase access to employment services, and change rules that determine who qualifies for assistance.
Unless it is weakened before legislation is tabled in the spring, B.C.’s ZEV mandate will be the strongest in North America, leapfrogging California, other U.S. states and Quebec.
Similar kinds of attacks on Quebec legislator Catherine Dorion and U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both newly-elected young women, are meant to inhibit their audacity and to chill their ambitions, because they both represent a radical break from the status quo, writes columnist Nora Loreto.
Errors in a recent ocean warming study illustrate global warming’s complexity. They also show the depths to which climate science deniers will stoop to dismiss or downplay evidence for human-caused climate change.
