Alberta

Nebraska regulators approved passage of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline Monday, clearing the last major regulatory hurdle for the controversial $10-billion project but creating a new wrinkle by choosing an alternative route for the pipeline.

The pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta to Cushing, Oklahoma and to Wood River/Patoka, Illinois “is expected to remain shut down as we respond to this incident,” the Calgary-based company said in a statement Thursday.

To say that Hassan Yussuff was frustrated Wednesday would be putting it politely. “There are other adjectives I will not use," the president of the Canadian Labour Congress told National Observer after hearing the government still has no "just transition" policies lined up for fossil fuel workers who will lose their jobs.

The cost of looking after hundreds of wells, pipelines and other oilfield gear left behind by bankrupt Lexin Resources Ltd. has exceeded $2 million and the bills continue to roll in, says Alberta's Orphan Well Association.

Gender and vocabulary are clashing on the floor of the Alberta legislature as Premier Rachel Notley accuses one male opponent of mansplaining, and calls out another for "hepeating."

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal from Alberta's energy regulator that seeks to overturn a ruling that could allow bankrupt energy companies to walk away from cleaning up abandoned oil wells.

Now, I know the advice that many of us abide by. Don’t feed the trolls and by in large, I don’t. I’m breaking this rule because I think the misogynistic and violent nature of certain comments and potential links to pro-oil platforms needs to be called out.

The procedure would be a departure from the NEB's previous treatment of Kinder Morgan. The regulator had refused to allow cross-examination of company officials in its original hearings to review the project, which were set up when the former Harper government was in power. The Trudeau government has declined to intervene in the case.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is refusing to apologize for his government's accusations against Burnaby after getting a letter from the British Columbia coastal city's lawyer. The provincial government accused the City of Burnaby last Friday of "deliberately slowing down" permits for Texas-based Kinder Morgan and the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

Alberta is proposing new legislation to ensure students who join gay-straight alliances in school are not outed without their permission.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she wants the National Energy Board to move quickly to remove roadblocks on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

One of the country's largest oilsands companies is facing federal charges in the death of 31 great blue herons at one of its mine sites in northern Alberta more than two years ago.

The National Energy Board has rejected a requested deadline proposed by pipeline giant Kinder Morgan to limit debate about its request to short-circuit provincial and municipal laws standing in the way of its Trans Mountain expansion project.

B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman said that Kinder Morgan's recent behaviour requires federal and provincial authorities to place more scrutiny on the company. “I think it’s reprehensible that Kinder Morgan acts as if they don’t have to follow the conditions in the permit that they received."

The lethal mix of migratory birds and oilsands tailings ponds are in the news again this fall.