Alberta report takes a different view of renewables than government
Critics are asking why the Alberta government's proposed regulations on renewable power seem to have ignored the conclusions of its own utilities regulator.
Paul McLauchlin
Alberta puts six-month freeze on all new renewable energy projects
Alberta is pausing approvals for all new renewable energy projects — effective immediately — while it reviews how these projects affect land use, the power grid and how they’ll be cleaned up down the line.
Oil companies stiffing Alberta municipalities at tax time, despite boom
Rural Municipalities of Alberta says energy companies now owe towns and villages in which they operate a total of $268 million. That's up more than six per cent from last year and 261 per cent since 2018, when the association began keeping track.
Alberta landowners fear renewable energy could spark a new abandoned equipment crisis
Once bitten, twice shy.
Alberta rural municipalities complain unpaid oilpatch taxes rising despite high oil prices
The amount of unpaid taxes energy companies owe to small-town Alberta is growing despite high oil prices, the province's rural municipalities said on Tuesday, March 8, 2022.
Rural Alberta municipalities struggle as unpaid oilpatch property taxes skyrocket
The exponential growth of unpaid property taxes from Alberta's struggling oilpatch is threatening small communities and they need new ways to enforce the rules, says the group that represents them.