datum (n=1)7h ago

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.

and

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

#ABPoli #Alberta #journalism

Alberta Landowner Alleges ‘Mafia-Style’ Meeting Demands as Energy Regulator’s Ethics Investigation Stalls

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.

The Energy Mix
pinhman10h ago
As Australia faces significant rise in gas costs, it puts in place a gas export tax to tame speculative inflation

“ Gas companies like to avoid tax, and a gas export tax is easy to avoid by not exporting so much gas and diverting a small percentage of current exports to Australian gas customers.”

Canada?

#cdnpoli #abpoli
https://thepoint.com.au/explainers/260326-gas-export-tax-wont-harm-trade-or-diplomacy-despite-industry-scare-campaign-claims
Gas export tax won’t harm trade or diplomacy despite industry scare campaign claims

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.

RE 🇨🇦10h ago

So Canada just doesn't have an environmental policy now

https://thewalrus.ca/after-intense-lobbying-carney-allows-gas-powered-data-centres-in-alberta/

#cdnpoli #abpoli

Show threadpinhman11h ago
@dyckron Everyone participating in this "debate" is an AtlasNetwork stooge.

Looks like nothing more than a well staged exercise in misinformation than a debate.

What Canadian media will cover this as real debate, and who as a contrived piece of manipulation.

BUT the rule is for these players, never mention AtlasNetwork, otherwise it gives away the manipulation and coercion.



Kenney past president of Can Taxpayers Fed
Gunter "incoming president of Civitas"
Mark Milke Civitas
the "opponent" Keith Wilson works with "justice centre .."
Even D Smith is a former? stooge
#atlasnetwork #abpoli
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374262009_Silencing_the_Voice_the_fossil-fuelled_Atlas_Network%27s_campaign_against_constitutional_recognition_of_Indigenous_Australia
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/keith-wilson-lawyer-complaint-tweet-apology-1.7087890
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/profile/lorne-gunter
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/profile/m-danielle-smith
Mat Wright12h ago

AB and BC NDP should just cross the floor and join the cons

#BCpoli #ABpoli #CDNpoli

RobfromCalgary13h ago
"...Premier Danielle Smith is determined to remain in power and she’s already proved she’s prepared to tear up the rule book on any number of issues..." #ableg #abpoli
https://albertapolitics.ca/2026/03/the-inks-barely-dry-on-the-alberta-electoral-boundaries-commission-report-and-it-may-be-in-trouble/
The ink’s barely dry on the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission report and it may be in trouble - Alberta Politics

The final recommendations of Alberta’s Electoral Boundaries Commission released yesterday are probably about the best that could be expected given the ridiculous limitation that only two additional seats could be added to the Legislature’s current 87 despite the province’s burgeoning population. After all, the commissioners had to draw the lines somewhere, and the way they […]

Alberta Politics
RobfromCalgary14h ago

"...the fact that the UCP-appointed chair of the commission felt the need to write that it was unconstitutional and wrong tells you what you need to know..."

#ableg #abpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/electoral-boundary-commission-dallas-miller-9.7143937

Boundary commission chair questions motives of UCP-picked panelists in final riding report | CBC News

Alberta’s electoral boundaries commission issued a final report Thursday that proposed removing two rural seats from Alberta’s political map, but it was accompanied by a starkly different “minority report” alternative that proposed splicing several big-city ridings with rural seats.

CBC
atomicker14h ago

No private company has shown interest in purchasing or building the project, yet the Alberta government continues to push forward with its idea for a new oil pipeline to the coast.

via @wcelaw.bsky.social (West Coast Environmental Law) on Bluesky

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bakx-smith-ceraweek-foreign-investment-pipeline-9.7139057

#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #NoPipelines #ABPoli #Alberta

Smith-Carney pipeline deal facing early delays | CBC News

The first set of deadlines included in the energy and climate deal struck between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are not expected to be met, showing early challenges with the agreement that includes pursuing a new export pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast.

CBC
Ron Dyck15h ago

Lede: A minority report by UCP-appointed commissioners would slice Alberta cities into pizza pies of ‘rurban’ ridings

The ink’s barely dry on the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission report and it may be in trouble https://albertapolitics.substack.com/p/the-inks-barely-dry-on-the-alberta

#abpoli

The ink’s barely dry on the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission report and it may be in trouble

A minority report by UCP-appointed commissioners would slice Alberta cities into pizza pies of ‘rurban’ ridings

Alberta Politics by David Climenhaga
Show threadRE 🇨🇦16h ago

E.g. federal government can be accused of overreach into provincial matters, but provincial government can interfere at will into municipal matters, like, shrug, whatever, what are you going to do about it?

#onpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli