Mitch Anderson is a Vancouver-based journalist covering climate and extraction industries.
Premier Danielle Smith can expect new tariffs, fewer revenue streams, and a provincial deficit brought on by lowered oil prices.
With spotlight on politicians and their pledges in Baku, fossil fuel lobbyists are racking up private meetings with Trudeauโs government.
Taxpayers are on the hook as the bitumen extraction industry continues to play by its own rules.
The province launched its โscrap the capโ campaign while burdening every Albertan household with $70,000 in oil industry liabilities.
Proposed new rules for CCS projects transfer long-term liabilities to the province.
Below-market pipeline tolls amount to an extra $18.8 billion subsidy to the oil industry, report finds.
The global push for climate transparency is just getting started.
Overseas demand for Alberta bitumen has yet to materialize as Asia transitions to electrified transport.
Canadian taxpayers fund the fossil fuel sector more than any other G20 nation.
With new federal requirements for accuracy in oil industry advertising on the way, the Canadian Energy Centre has folded like a wet cardboard box.
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