Sonya Savage

Alberta is investing millions of dollars into carbon capture technologies at a time when climate experts say the technology should be used as a last resort.

After years fighting a futile legal battle against the federal carbon tax, Jason Kenney’s UCP government has found another hill for its well-paid lawyers to die on, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Now it’s time for them to brag about the size of their climate ambition — and do something about it, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The Kenney government’s two-year, $3.5-million inquiry into the foreign funding of environmental organizations found no “suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of any individual or organization.”

Madu, who is Black, said he phoned the police chief after he received the ticket but only to seek assurances that he was not being racially profiled or singled out for surveillance given his political position. 

Alberta's energy minister says she has received two reports that will determine the future of coal mining in the province's Rocky Mountain foothills and eastern slopes.

The global energy transition could create 170,000 jobs in Alberta and contribute $61 billion to the province's GDP by 2050, according to a new study released on Tuesday, December 7, 2021, by provincial economic development groups.

The Alberta government has introduced legislation that it says would help municipalities recoup some of the millions of dollars in unpaid property taxes they're owed by energy companies.

Launched in 2019 by Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative government to investigate foreign funding of environmental groups, the inquiry led by commissioner Steve Allan found no “suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of any individual or organization.”

"It was because of the overwhelming response and the need to accommodate that response with extra time that we had to approach the minister with the request for an extension," committee head Ron Wallace said in an interview Tuesday.

Albertans want to talk about a lot more than coal when it comes to development in their beloved Rocky Mountains, says the head of the committee charged with collecting public opinion on the issue.

The federal government says the proposed Grassy Mountain coal project in southwestern Alberta cannot proceed.

Decarbonizing oil and gas production while letting market forces determine supply — not dismantling and phasing out — is still Ottawa’s fundamental approach to the national hydrocarbon sector, writes energy and climate journalist Markham Hislop.

The public inquiry report into what the Alberta government labels troublesome foreign funding of enviro-groups was delivered on Friday, July 30, 2021, – a year late and million dollars over its original budget.

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.