As it turns out, Alberta oil and gas doesn’t love you back.

Alberta's oilpatch cut 10,000 jobs last year — even as production soared | Edmonton Journal

#ableg #abpoli #ClimateChange

https://edmontonjournal.com/business/energy/albertas-oilpatch-cut-10000-jobs-last-year-even-as-production-soared

Alberta's oilpatch cut 10,000 jobs last year — even as production soared

The province produced about 122 million barrels of oil in 2011. Last year, Alberta produced nearly 1.4 billion barrels of oil by November.

Edmonton Journal
Are there good reasons to want well-functioning regional interties? Sure. Does that mean Alberta should be forced to buy from Montana, specifically? Please be serious. (Also, well done on the wording choice of that headline, CBC) #CNDPoli #ABLeg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why Alberta and Montana are in...
Why Alberta and Montana are in a charged argument over electricity | CBC News

In the view of representatives of Big Sky Country, Alberta’s rules sometimes block Montana electricity from being sold into Alberta, which they say hurts their power producers and discourages cross-border transmission investment. Alberta, meanwhile, says it isn’t treating Montana any differently than it does its Canadian neighbours.

CBC
Alberta has four health ministers, and there’s not been a chirp from any of them about the mess in the province’s Emergency Rooms - Alberta Politics

Ever since emergency medicine physicians in Edmonton called last Friday for Alberta to declare a state of emergency about the catastrophic condition of the city’s hospital Emergency Rooms, the only sound from Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government has been an unnerving silence. Out here in Wild Rose Country, we have four health ministers. […]

Alberta Politics

Continuing the story of Wonder Valley’s journey from a gleam in someone’s eye to a possible mirage, and the “boy band” assembling around the project in 2026.

Meanwhile, O’Leary says that Trump needs energy, and Smith has the “lowest cost energy in America.” (no, that’s not a typo)
#ableg #cdnpoli #WonderValleyAlberta #AIdatacentres #AIDataCenters

https://open.substack.com/pub/jodymacpherson/p/wonder-valley-watch-the-us-needs?r=b0efu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Wonder Valley Watch: The US needs energy, CCS not a thing, and emissions 'happen'

Continuing the story from early spring to Stampede, down an Instagram rabbit hole

The Missive

@Paulatics

Again, useful, full throated democracy love and Canada love. 👆

#cdnpoli #ableg #canada

Should Alberta/Canada adopt EN81, the worldwide standard for elevators?
#elevators #urbanism #ableg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or1_qVdekYM
North America's Elevator Problem

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“If conditions are dire enough that doctors are speaking bluntly to the media, we all need to listen. Our acute care system is not well. The current situation has exceeded normal operating parameters for acute care” The AMA has entered the chat. 🇨🇦 #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
January 10, 2025
Forest Heights Park
Organized by the Edmonton Public Schools Advocacy Network.
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#yeg #education #ableg #photojournalism #alberta #yegphotographer #edmonton #teachers #students