Environment Archives - Alberta Politics

In a Jan. 15 letter to the Chairman of the Alberta Energy Regulator, Environment Minister Brian Jean lifted the ban on coal exploration on the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains that was put in place after intense public pressure on Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party Government in February 2021. Hard to say whether the […]

Environment

Dig, baby, dig! Energy Minister Brian Jean lifts ban on coal exploration on the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies

Guest post: Science versus the Alberta Minister of Hunting and Fishing

Everybody understands the point of the UCP’s ‘Scrap the Cap’ ads is to use taxpayer money to campaign against the Liberals

Citing ‘uncertainty’ about Bill C-59’s environmental truth-in-advertising provision, Pathways Alliance pulls all content from its website

Why capture carbon when it’s so much easier to capture a government?

Truth in advertising? Forget about it, says the UCP, assailing Bill C-59 ‘gag order’ in overwrought screed

Danielle Smith celebrates her return from COP28 with unhinged attack on federal environment minister

Replacing the Sovereignty Act so soon? Danielle Smith’s belligerent statement vows new attack on federal power

Guest Post: Alberta has already killed the notorious Grassy Mountain coal mine, so why is it still alive?

Guest Post: Researcher Regan Boychuk digs deep into the history of the RStar scheme

Jason Kenney offers a grab-bag of defences, some unusual, against five environmental groups’ defamation lawsuit

There are several reasons for Jason Kenney’s enthusiasm for ‘small modular reactors’ – none of them are particularly good