Alberta’s shattered fiscal house
As its money-making oil industry shrivels, Alberta is faced with a seismic reordering of its books—and the notion that it’s now an outlier for the wrong reasons
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Hours from death, these birds survived a tarry encounter with Alberta’s oil sands
When dozens of aquatic birds landed in an oil sands tailings pond, saving their lives wasn’t easy. But an Edmonton rehab agency managed to send some back into the wild.
Happy that Alberta’s oil-fuelled party is over? Think again.
Jen Gerson: In a system where every major project is a target for obstruction and protest, everyone suffers
Jason Kenney and the oil sands: look who’s statist now
He may be a true believer in the conservative cause, but Kenney has evolved into a petro-premier first and foremost
The real betrayal of Albertans? Lifer politicians who won’t tell them the truth.
Scott Gilmore: Every major player and investor understands the days of oil are numbered. Politicians are the only ones too shameless to say it out loud.
The unbelievable things coming out of Jason Kenney’s ’War Room’
Jen Gerson: Nothing demonstrates the parochialism and myopia of the people running Alberta Inc. more than their support for the Canadian Energy Centre
The outsized meaning of the Frontier oil sands mine
The project is a long shot to get built, while others are already approved. How did it become a flashpoint in the climate-change battle?
Greta Thunberg’s visit to Alberta was no ordinary celebrity drop-in
The 16-year-old Swede lent her voice to Albertans who care deeply about climate change. And make no mistake, there are a lot of them.
Scrubbing the oil sands’ record
Canada’s bitumen giants say their crude has become less carbon-intensive than the average. How do their claims hold up?
Bill McKibben on how we might avert climate change suicide
The author argues the pipeline to B.C. is folly and Canada risks being ’a great source of destruction’