By Aaron Walker, Windspeaker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
As First Nations leaders challenge one of Canada’s largest proposed artificial intelligence data centres over its potential impact on fresh water, many say Ottawa’s newly introduced clean water legislation leaves a fundamental question unanswered: Who ultimately decides what happens to waters in First Nations territory?
Continue reading AI Data Centres: Can Bill C-37 deliver real authority to First Nations over water?
By David Pickup and WIll Noel , News release from the Pembina Institute.
CALGARY — Two thirds of Albertans want to see more renewable energy projects built near where they live, and think the province should be doing more to encourage wind and solar development, according to new polling commissioned by the Pembina Institute.
Continue reading Majority of Albertans back wind and solar, but investors continue to face hostile business environmentDespite the latest spike in oil prices and months-long push by oil and gas industry for the stripping back of environmental regulations, Albertans are concerned about overreliance on single sector.
By Janetta McKenzie , News release from the Pembina Institute
CALGARY — A majority (61 per cent) of Albertans say they do not want taxpayer money to be used for a new pipeline, with even more (67 per cent) saying they think the province’s economy is too dependent on the oil and gas sector.
New polling commissioned by the Pembina Institute and conducted by Probe Research in late April and early May suggest Albertans’ views on energy policies are not aligned with priorities being brought forward by the Government of Alberta and oil and gas industry leaders. These have included a broad push for environmental deregulation, as well as a proposal for a new oil pipeline that has so far been funded exclusively with Alberta taxpayer dollars, and has still yet to attract a private sector proponent.
Continue reading Majority of Albertans don’t want taxpayer dollars used for pipeline; say province’s economy too dependent on oil and gas
Alberta’s first operational carbon capture facility, the Meadowbrook Carbon Storage Hub, quietly commenced operations in December. Bison Low Carbon Ventures Inc. (Bison), the developer, issued a press release stating:
“The Phase 1 facility is licensed for up to 500 kilotonnes per annum of CO2 injection and we expect the project, once scaled, to be able to safely handle a minimum of 3 million tonnes per annum of CO2 injection for permanent sequestration.”
Continue reading Alberta’s First Carbon Capture Facility Operational
By David Boles, St Albert Gazette, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Residents living just north of the Alberta capital may have felt the ground shake beneath them on more than one occasion in the last few weeks.
Several earthquakes have been felt in central and northern Alberta, including one in Sturgeon County on April 18 that Earthquakes Canada says registered at a magnitude of 4.1.
While relatively rare, earthquakes in Wild Rose Country are not uncommon.
“There are natural earthquakes, that are related to the movement of tectonic plates off the west coast were plates are sliding past one another and colliding,” said John Cassidy, an earthquake seismologist with Natural Resources Canada.
Another tremor to hit rural Alberta came on Saturday, when a 3.8 magnitude earthquake struck northeast of Fort Saskatchewan.
Earthquakes Canada says the first quake was industry-related, something Cassidy says is an example of an induced earthquake.
Continue reading Earthquakes shake up areas north of Edmonton
