Alberta oilsands leak reveals gaps in industry oversight
Recent leaks of toxic tailings from northern Alberta oilsands mines have revealed serious flaws in how Canada and Alberta look after the environment, observers say.
Alberta Energy Regulator
Heads should roll over massive Alberta spill by Imperial Oil
The coverup of Imperial Oil’s latest spill of toxic tailings water at the Kearl mine north of Fort McMurray is an outrageous breach of trust.
Tailings scandal puts polluting corporations in MPs’ crosshairs
MPs lambasted federal and provincial governments in question period Friday for failing to hold polluting corporations accountable in the wake of tailings leaks in northern Alberta.
Alberta silence over oilsands spill 'worrisome', says Steven Guilbeault
Alberta's nine-month silence over two releases of toxic oilsands tailings water is "worrisome," says federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.
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.
Energy regulator may have ignored law by not disclosing Alberta oilsands leak: lawyer
Drew Yewchuk of the University of Calgary's Public Interest Law Clinic is asking the province's Information Commissioner to investigate how and why the Alberta Energy Regulator chose not to release information on the leak at Imperial Oil's Kearl mine, despite direction in provincial law to do so.
First Nation chief in Alberta angry that Imperial Oil didn't disclose oilsands tailings spill
A northern Alberta Indigenous leader has accused Imperial Oil Ltd. of a nine-month coverup over a massive release of toxic oilsands tailings on land near where his band harvests food.
Alberta landowners fear renewable energy could spark a new abandoned equipment crisis
Once bitten, twice shy.
Alberta's oilsands mine security reform unlikely to fix problems, First Nations contend
Alberta is preparing to change how it ensures oilsands companies are able to pay for the mammoth job of cleaning up their operations, but critics fear a year of consultations hasn't been enough to avoid repeating past mistakes.
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.
For decades, Alberta’s energy regulator massively downplayed crude oil and saline water spills
The agency that regulates Alberta’s energy industry to protect the environment has been keeping inaccurate data that dramatically downplay decades of spills of crude oil and saline water — reflecting profound dysfunction and pro-industry bias within the regulator.
Fossil fuel industry dominates Canada’s 100 largest emitters
If Canada wants to make a meaningful dent in its industrial carbon emissions, the data makes clear that the name of the game is fossil fuels.
Feds block Grassy Mountain coal mine
The federal government says the proposed Grassy Mountain coal project in southwestern Alberta cannot proceed.
Company applies to appeal decision rejecting open-pit coal mine in Alberta
The company behind a proposed open-pit coal mine in Alberta's Rocky Mountains has filed a request to appeal a decision by a review panel that rejected the project as being not in the public interest.
Nationalizing old oil and gas wells might be the best way to ensure cleanup
Most of Alberta's energy wells no longer hold enough oil and gas to pay for their cleanup and the public should take them over to ensure their remaining revenue funds remediation, a new report concludes.