MEGlobal Canada announced on Friday that it has entered into a 10-year agreement with Edmonton-based Capital Power to purchase a significant share of renewable energy from Capital Power’s Whitla Wind facility. The agreement will see Capital [Read more]
A new report from the Pembina Institute, Getting on Track: A primer on challenges to reducing carbon emissions from Canada’s oil sands, calls on Canada’s oil sands producers to put forward a plan that will reduce [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on Feb. 9, 2022. Alberta has seen significant changes to its electricity supply mix over the past decade. In 2005, electricity generated from wind and solar [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on Feb. 9, 2022. Alberta has seen significant changes to its electricity supply mix over the past decade. In 2005, electricity generated from wind and solar [Read more]
Northern Petrochemical Corporation announced it will build a $2.5 billion carbon-neutral ammonia and methanol production facility near Valleyview, Alberta. According to a press release from the Government of Alberta, the facility will be the first [Read more]
Key to understanding [UCP government’s] cold-blooded strategy is determining how long it will take to achieve this goal of “herd immunity”. October 1, 2021 Dear Albertans, After Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey’s offer to [Read more]
EDP Renewables Canada and TC Energy Corporation have agreed to a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for 100 per cent of the output of the 297-megawatt (MW) Sharp Hills Wind Farm. Sharp Hills Wind Farm [Read more]
Last Thursday, Pembina Pipeline Corporation and TC Energy Corporation announced a plan to jointly develop a carbon transportation and sequestration system. Called the Alberta Carbon Grid, the project will use existing pipelines as well as [Read more]
Air Products announced last week that it will build a multi-billion dollar net-zero hydrogen energy complex in Edmonton. The company began work on the core of the energy complex in 2018. The $1.3 billion net-zero [Read more]
By Michael Brown This article was published by Folio on May 25, 2021. Alberta’s oil and gas fields could be in store for another natural resource boom thanks to a University of Alberta-based lithium extraction [Read more]
By Nina Lothian This article was published by Pembina Institute on April 6, 2021 Canada’s climate targets demand deep decarbonization across the Canadian economy, necessitating improved, transparent and consistent assessment of the carbon performance of [Read more]
This article by The Pembina Institute was published by the Edmonton Journal on March 12, 2021. By Chris Severson-Baker When Alberta’s 2021 budget was released late last month, it included the establishment of a $2-million-a-year [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Todd Hirsch, chief economist of the Alberta Treasury Branch and an influential voice in the Alberta energy conversation. The topic of discussion was an Oct. 21 column [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Dale Marshall of Environmental Defence about a new study showing methane emissions from oil and gas production could be double current estimates. If the study’s results apply [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Dr. Nathan Lemphers about his working paper, which examines transportation electrification narratives in Alberta oil/gas (negative), Ontario automotive manufacturing (uncertain), and Quebec (positive). Related links: The Stories [Read more]
Rating: Advanced high school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews energy economist Ken Fellows, School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, about the new study, “Energy & Environmental Policy Trends: Is the Site C [Read more]
Rating: Advanced high school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Kevin Birn, an economist with IHS MarkIt, about how oil sands producers have driven down costs to around $30 WTI per barrel. Falling supply from Latin [Read more]
By Robert Tremblay The future is low carbon. For Albertans to continue to have the prosperity we have enjoyed, we need to create an economy that is compatible with that future. A low carbon world [Read more]
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is likely to play an important role in decreasing industrial sector emissions intensity. CCS works by capturing carbon emissions made by the consumption of fossil fuels, or by carbon emitted during [Read more]
By Emily Geary This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Sept. 9, 2020. Total US crude oil production grew by 1.24 million barrels per day (b/d) (11 per cent) in 2019. This [Read more]
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