This article was published by The Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association on June 15, 2020. The federal government says it will have a comprehensive strategy for hydrogen in place by the end of the summer, [Read more]
On Tuesday, RBC announced it has entered into a formal partnership for a long-term renewable energy Power Purchase Agreement with Bullfrog Power and BluEarth Renewables. The agreement is the first of its kind for a [Read more]
Canadian Utilities announced it has been awarded $2.8 million in funding from Emission Reductions Alberta’s Natural Gas Challenge. The ATCO company says the funds will go towards advancing its first-of-its-kind hydrogen blending project in Fort [Read more]
On Tuesday, the Alberta government announced it will reinstate environmental reporting that had been curtailed due to COVID-19 on July 15. The move comes four weeks earlier than planned. Jason Nixon, Minister of Environment and [Read more]
By Brett Wittmeier This article was published by Folio on January 10, 2020. University of Alberta engineers have found a way to turn waste fat, oil and grease into a steady supply of renewable energy. [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on May 20, 2020. The location of propane exports in Canada is changing. Increasingly, more volumes of propane are exported from British Columbia. In January 2020, [Read more]
On Wednesday, the Alberta government announced it is setting a new helium royalty rate. The Kenney government says the change, retroactive to April 1, will provide investor certainty to help develop an untapped resource that [Read more]
By Chris Severson-Baker This article was published by Pembina Institute on April 21, 2020. The federal government’s announcement of financial support for Alberta’s oil and gas sector is welcome news as the COVID-19 pandemic deepens and [Read more]
By Gillian Rutherford This article was published by Folio on April 15, 2020. Alberta laboratories had two advantages when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, allowing them to ramp up early and perform more tests per capita [Read more]
Alberta oil sand giant Cenovus says it will cut its 2020 capital spending by approximately 32 per cent in response to falling oil prices. The Calgary-based company says it is also temporarily suspending its crude-by-rail [Read more]
The Canada Energy Regulator has recommended that the Federal cabinet approve the NGTL 2021 System Expansion Project. The $2.3 billion NOVA Gas Transmission project includes approximately 344 km of natural gas pipeline in eight loops [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on March 4, 2020. Hydrocarbons, like bitumen and other heavy oils, are typically too dense to flow on major export pipelines. For example, bitumen produced in [Read more]
The Alberta government is loaning $100 million to the Orphan Well Association to help create jobs and cut the number of abandoned wells in the province. According to a press release from the Alberta government, [Read more]
This article was published by COSIA on Nov. 19, 2019. By its nature, oil sands development—particularly mining—disturbs surface lands. Sections of forest in Northern Alberta have been cleared so the underlying bitumen can be recovered. [Read more]
On Tuesday, Backwoods Energy Services announced it will work alongside the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to provide financial support to its Indigenous employees looking to purchase their first home. According to the company, its [Read more]
The Alberta government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tri-Municipal Industrial Partnership, or TMIP, to coordinate the development of a new eco-industrial area in Greenview, south of Grande Prairie. According to a press [Read more]
Calgary’s Greengate Power Corporation and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) announced on Monday their agreement to further fund the $500 million Travers Solar project. The funding will go towards development and construction of the Travers Solar [Read more]
“Business as usual” in the Canadian oil patch is unacceptable, but “only slightly better than business as usual” is just as unacceptable CEO Alix Pourbaix is being praised for Cenovus Energy’s aspirational goal of net-zero [Read more]
Teck Frontier decision is seminal moment for Canada, which must demonstrate it is capable of negotiating treacherous path to climate action and economic development The federal government is expected to decide on the future of [Read more]
“Economic conservatives” and those with “future hope in oil and gas” most opposed to energy transition in Alberta Alberta is the epicentre of the Canadian crude oil, natural gas, and pipeline industry. Not surprisingly, like [Read more]
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