The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has invested billions in fossil fuel expansion in the United States since Trump’s return to office.

It turns out oil and gas aren’t Alberta’s only hazardous exports.

It’s an energy agenda seemingly at odds with the prime minister’s previous stated commitments to addressing climate change.

For some separatists, ignoring Indigenous rights is not only a side effect of an independent Alberta, but an explicit goal.

The Alberta premier belongs to a U.S. group called the Governors Coalition for Energy Security that’s led by Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, Trump’s envoy to Greenland.

Report author Mark Cameron is at Bluesky Strategy Group, which boasts to clients “our team has the reach to get your story told” in Canadian media.

New data show American capital now controls most of Canada’s oil and gas sector while jobs vanish, royalties lag, and billions flow south.

The pro-AI and fossil fuel group tells DeSmog that it’s great to see its ideas “get taken up by government.”

By tying the project’s fate to Indigenous “equity,” Carney saddles groups with the blame, and potentially the bill, if they move to stop a pipeline they oppose.

Critics say new LNG ventures in British Columbia saddle Indigenous communities with debt, opaque ownership structures, and financial risk that could leave them owing billions.