To fight Ottawa’s carbon cap, will Danielle Smith really take control of oil company emissions data?

To show how opposed her UCP government is to Ottawa’s oil and gas emissions cap, Premier Danielle Smith said Alberta would use its provincial Sovereignty Act to bar energy companies from submitting emissions data to the federal government, and from letting federal employees onto their production sites.

These actions are “bold” in the government’s own words. They’d also potentially run afoul of federal law requiring data sharing, and companies’ own obligations to shareholders and investors.

But it’s worth considering how many switches would have to flip a certain way to reach this fraught point of provincial-federal standoff over data and where federal inspectors could literally stand:

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