Thanks, and so long, and I’ll see y’all soon!
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Proposed federal clean-electricity rules are ‘unaffordable blackout regulations’? … UCP environment minister floods the zone
What’s disappointing about this is the central role of Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz is playing in the UCP’s effort to flood the media with you-know-what.
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It’s hard to take Danielle Smith’s hysterical outburst at federal environment minister very seriously
The plotline’s obvious. The UCP will use any stratagem to stall implementation of carbon reduction measures and renewable energy. And Ottawa doesn’t mind looking like the grownup in the room.
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Social-conservative groups gear up for stealth takeover of Alberta school boards in coming elections
If you’re concerned about the MAGA assault on education, fasten your seatbelts, because it’s coming to Alberta. And like the warning on your car’s wing mirror, it’s closer than it looks.
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2,500-word Alberta ‘fact sheet’ tries to counter critics of freeze on new renewable electricity project approvals
Bottom line: Nothing is changing. The freeze will continue. The principal criticisms have been met with a lot of words, but not really answered.
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Estimated 24,000 jobs, $33B in investments at risk because of renewables freeze: Pembina Institute
The projects would have contributed an additional $263 million a year in tax and land-lease revenue to 27 different municipalities, the Pembina report says.
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Today is last day on job for AHS VP Deb Gordon, highest-ranking woman in the province-wide health agency
It would be fair to observe that senior health care management in Alberta appears to be becoming a less congenial place for women executives.
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Environment minister in government that won’t approve geothermal power projects visits new geothermal project in Germany
Irony is dead in Alberta.
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Meanwhile, across the continent in Maine, citizens are fighting to create a publicly owned, not-for-profit state electrical utility
Enmax Energy Corp., the utility company owned by the City of Calgary, has committed millions of dollars to a campaign to persuade voters in the U.S. state not to create a public, not-for-profit utility company.
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Thanks, Klein! Albertans are getting hammered as deregulated July electricity prices jump 128% over last year
High summer electricity prices are one impact of Alberta’s wide-open deregulated electricity market introduced by Ralph Klein’s Conservative government in 2000.
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United Conservative Party nationalizes privatized medical lab services – who saw that coming?
One crucial question about yesterday’s announcement remains unanswered: How much is this “de-privatization” going to cost?
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What’s next for Rachel Notley? Is there a path to the PMO for Alberta’s former NDP premier?
To be blunt, if the national NDP is going to survive it needs a leader stronger than Jagmeet Singh.