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$500M investment means construction to start on Canada’s largest solar farm this year | CBC News

If Alberta were investing in these type of projects a lot more money could be earned rather than collecting tax from the builder and the people who will use it. This is a huge missed opportunity. From a year ago:
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Jason Kenney addresses a crowd of about 500 UCP members at an event in Edmonton on February 16, 2019. (Scott Neufeld/CBC)

Jason Kenney wants to avoid the mistakes made by a liberal Ontario government when it comes to subsidizing renewable energy by getting Alberta out of the power contract game.

But according to an expert, he’s talking about a problem that doesn’t really exist.

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A year later, he hasn’t learned a thing.

February 5, 2020

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Federal court dismisses Indigenous challenge of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

OTTAWA — The Federal Court of Appeal says the government’s decision to approve the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion a second time is reasonable and will stand.

In a unanimous, 3-0 decision today, the court dismissed four challenges to that approval launched last summer by First Nations in British Columbia.

The government intends to finish the expansion and then sell both the existing pipeline and the expansion back to the private sector.

February 4, 2020

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Jason Kenney’s Other Pipeline War Is with Michigan | The Tyee

Some wonder why Kenney, who has claimed Alberta is bullied by foreign-backed environmental advocates, has no problem intervening in the decision-making of a jurisdiction beyond Canada’s borders.

“The premier ought to take care of things that are directly impacting the citizens of Canada and let the people of Michigan take care of things that directly impact the citizens of Michigan,” said David Holtz, a spokesperson for the environmental group Oil & Water Don’t Mix, based in northern Michigan’s Traverse City.

Last June, Kenney notified his 173,000 Facebook followers that Michigan’s leaders are trying to decommission Enbridge’s Line 5, a nearly 70-year-old pipeline traversing the state. Line 5 serves as a shortcut for moving Alberta crude oil to refineries in Sarnia, Ontario, accounting for about 70 per cent of the oil it carries.

February 3, 2020

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Why Is It Always Someone Else’s Fault?

Mr Kenney has painted himself into a corner. He’s convinced Albertans
that our economy will be driven by nothing but energy for a long time
to come and that energy investment is driven by government policy and
not global markets. Therefore, when his energy-centric government
policies fail to produce the desired result because multi-national
players would rather invest elsewhere, Kenney needs someone (other than
himself) to blame for Alberta’s faltering economy.

Trot out Trudeau (again).

February 3, 2020

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Feds rankle provinces with spring timeline for stabilization fund changes

Finance ministers in Alberta and Saskatchewan say they expected
short-term fixes to the fiscal stabilization fund earlier than that and
are now wary they will have to wait until after the federal budget to
learn about the impact on their own finances.

The program, which has not changed since 1995, provides help to
provinces facing a year-over-year decline in non-resource revenues, but
the money available to eligible provinces is capped at just $60 per
resident.

February 1, 2020

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