Not just Albertans getting fleeced by the nuclear snake oilagarchs, Carney is also captured.

Despite getting a much-ballyhooed $7-million in start-up costs from the Alberta Government in 2023, a year later Cenovus Energy Inc. pulled the plug on its study of the potential for so-called small modular reactors to generate power to wring oil from Alberta’s oilsands. To the company’s credit, it only spent $555,000 of the public’s money […]
More good journalism to kick off your weekend: Emphasis added:
Yager is the architect of Alberta’s strategy for dealing with the province’s growing oil and gas liabilities, including pipelines and orphaned wells, a problem that he once called a “giant stinking pile of sh*t.” The Alberta government paid Yager more than C$250,000 for the strategy, while he simultaneously served as AER director, a special advisor to Premier Danielle Smith, and ran an oil and gas consulting company.
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Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) board chair Duncan Au wrote that he and his fellow board directors were satisfied that no “conflict or apparent conflict” exists.
https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-landowner-alleges-mafia-style-meeting-demands-as-energy-regulators-ethics-investigation-stalls/ by @JEmphatically

Dwight Popowich and legal group Ecojustice are seeking an ethics investigation into AER director David Yager over alleged conflicts of interest. They say the regulator’s demand for an unrecorded meeting has stalled the process, a claim the AER denies.

Will a gas export tax harm our diplomatic relationships? No. Foreign companies being sad about having to pay some tax in Australia is quite different to foreign countries losing trust in Australia as a reliable trade partner.
So Canada just doesn't have an environmental policy now
https://thewalrus.ca/after-intense-lobbying-carney-allows-gas-powered-data-centres-in-alberta/