The federal government’s climate plans hinge on rapidly building an unprecedented quantity of new energy infrastructure. There is growing recognition and concern that Canada lacks the policy and regulatory frameworks to enable the country to build enough fast enough.
March 14, 2023, 12 AM MDT
While a template approach can be more efficient from a business standpoint, that method will not advance crucial, nuanced partnerships, such as those with Indigenous communities.
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The Rural Municipalities of Alberta (RMA) has conducted a member survey identifying that as of Dec. 31, 2022, approximately $268 million in property taxes currently owed to rural municipalities by oil and gas companies have gone unpaid.
March 8, 2023, 12 AM MST
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The way the B.C. government is interpreting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is reversing generations of progress on advancing Aboriginal sovereignty and economic development, Ellis Ross, a Liberal MLA and former chief councillor for the Haisla Nation, told the Indian Resource Council (IRC) Economic and Energy Reconciliation conference in Calgary last week.
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Providing Canada and the world with secure, affordable, low carbon and socially beneficial energy is the opportunity of a lifetime for Canadian workers, both young and old, the audience of executives and young professionals at the Canadian Energy Executive Association’s (CEEA) Beyond Boomers event heard in Calgary.
March 2, 2023, 12 AM MST
The B.C. government is forecasting lower natural gas royalty revenue for 2023/24, with prices easing, although that’s offset by rising production.
March 1, 2023, 11:13 AM MST
Non-renewable resource revenue in 2023/24 is estimated at $18.4 billion, $9.2 billion less than the $27.5 billion forecast for 2022/23, which would be the highest ever for Alberta.
February 28, 2023, 3:19 PM MST
The spread between West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Western Canadian Select (WCS) oil prices is expected to narrow as factors that weighed on the differential in late 2022 dissipate and additional pipeline capacity comes online later this year, the Alberta government noted in its budget tabled on Feb. 28.
February 28, 2023, 3:19 PM MST
Bitumen royalties are estimated at $12.6 billion in 2023/24, $6.2 billion less than in 2022/23, due primarily to the lower oil price forecast.
February 28, 2023, 3:20 PM MST
Strong fundamentals are expected to support natural gas prices in Western Canada, the Alberta government forecast in its annual budget tabled on Feb. 28.
February 28, 2023, 3:20 PM MST
Compliance payments from large industrial emitters to the Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction Fund (TIER) jumped $216 million in 2022/23 relative to budget, to $637 million, with the rebound in economic activity, higher energy prices and industrial output, as well as decisions regarding offset credit usage versus compliance payments in light of the federal government’s future and ongoing carbon tax increases.
February 28, 2023, 3:20 PM MST
The new B.C. government royalty regime being rolled out over the next year-and-a-half puts a significant focus on environmental, climate change and Indigenous issues, while laying out a new royalty structure that addresses modern production technologies and shifts in the production mix in the massive Montney unconventional resource play, Grant Nulle, executive director for Strategic Projects and Policy for the B.C. government, told a packed house at the recent Canadian Society for Evolving Energy (CSEE) B.C. Day event in Calgary.
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Premier Danielle Smith, who has a positive outlook on oil and gas in Alberta, sees resource development in the province blending familiar sources with less charted territory.
February 22, 2023, 5:58 AM MST
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