Mitch Anderson is a Vancouver-based journalist covering climate and extraction industries.
The premier is tossing aside the constituents who voted for her to grant favours to tech and fossil fuel executives.
The Liberals once talked tough about distancing Canada from the U.S. Now they seem eager to profit from the presidentโs agenda.
Itโs a massive subsidy to Equinor, the Norwegian oil company behind the Bay du Nord offshore oil project.
Canadian politicians and pundits are leveraging Trumpโs war with Iran to expand fossil fuel infrastructure.
First Nations are furious, environmentalists feel betrayed, oil companies are demanding more, and the clock is ticking.
Leaders of the Alberta separatist movement are insisting they do not want to become the U.S.โs 51st state, but their actions (and own words) say otherwise.
While Michigan lawmakers are taking fossil fuel companies to court for delaying the green transition, the Alberta government is hampering clean energy.
It turns out oil and gas arenโt Albertaโs only hazardous exports.
For some separatists, ignoring Indigenous rights is not only a side effect of an independent Alberta, but an explicit goal.
New data show American capital now controls most of Canadaโs oil and gas sector while jobs vanish, royalties lag, and billions flow south.
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