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Alberta Energy Regulator investigating release from coal mine into Smoky River
The Alberta Energy Regulator says it has laid charges against Land Petroleum International Inc. and president Bill Fung for hindering AER inspections in 2018. The Alberta Energy Regulator logo is seen on a flag at the opening of the regulator's office in Calgary in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Alberta Energy Regulator, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Alberta Energy Regulator may have ignored law by not disclosing oilsands leak: lawyer
Tailings samples are being tested during a tour of Imperial's oil sands research centre in Calgary on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018. A Calgary-based lawyer says Alberta's energy regulator may have ignored provincial law by not publicly disclosing that waste from a large oilsands tailings pond was escaping containment and seeping into groundwater. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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First Nations say Alberta’s oil sands mine security reform unlikely to fix problems
Alberta is preparing to change how it ensures oilsands companies are able to pay for the mammoth job of cleaning up their operations, but critics fear a year of consultations hasn't been enough to avoid repeating past mistakes. A dump truck works near the Syncrude oilsands extraction facility near the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta on Sunday June 1, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Alberta Energy Regulator mandates sector to increase cleanup spending to $700-million
Oil field pump jacks in rural Southern Alberta, November 9, 2022. Todd Korol/The Globe and Mail
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Tidewater pleads guilty to 2019 acidic water release in west-central Alberta
Alberta's provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa, Tuesday, June 30, 2020. A central Alberta restaurant is closing temporarily after public health inspectors say some of its staff accepted photos of patrons' dogs instead of their vaccine passports to dine-in. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Alberta moving forward on two new plans to maintain river water quality
Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon is seen during a news conference in Calgary on Sept. 15, 2020. Alberta is proposing two new plans to monitor water quality on the North Saskatchewan, Battle and Upper Athabasca rivers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Todd Korol
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Alberta Energy Regulator orders takeover of Mojek Resources’ wells, pipelines, facilities
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Alberta gas plant operator fined $80,000 for refusing regulatory inspection in 2018
A decommissioned pumpjack is shown at a well head on an oil and gas installation near Cremona, Alta., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. The Alberta Energy Regulator says it is suspending all of the licences held by an oil and gas producer with more than 2,200 wells and 2,100 pipelines after it failed to bring its operations into compliance. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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First Nations say Alberta review of coal project inadequate, seek federal involvement
The Rocky Mountains west of Nanton where ranchers and farmers worried about pollution and their water supplies objected to a new proposed coal mine by the Jason Kenney government in Alberta. Todd Korol/The Globe and Mail
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Alberta regulator suspends operating licences for SanLing Energy over failure to meet safety obligations
A SanLing well site near Buffalo, Alberta, September 4, 2018. The Globe and Mail/Todd Korol
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Alberta Energy Regulator suspends licences of SanLing Energy for owing $67-million
A decommissioned pumpjack is shown at a well head on an oil and gas installation near Cremona, Alta., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. The Alberta Energy Regulator says it is suspending all of the licences held by an oil and gas producer with more than 2,200 wells and 2,100 pipelines after it failed to bring its operations into compliance. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Unpaid Alberta oilpatch property taxes triple in two years, rural municipalities say
Pumpjacks draw oil out of the ground near Olds, Alta., on July 16, 2020. Alberta's rural towns say property taxes that have gone unpaid by the province's struggling oilpatch have tripled in two years. A survey released by the association for those communities says industry owes a total of $245 million. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Vista coal mine lays off 300 workers, still awaiting tailing ponds approval
Demand for thermal coal, used in power generation, is ravenous in Asia.
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Questions arise over what reinstated Alberta coal policy protects
Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage addresses the attendees while Tom Olsen, Managing Director of the Canadian Energy Centre, looks on at a press conference at SAIT in Calgary on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Greg Fulmes
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Alberta reinstates 1976 coal policy in wake of public backlash and legal challenge
A conveyor belt transports coal near Hanna, Alta., on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016. An Alberta Environment Department spokesman says the government plans to restore some aspects of a coal policy it revoked last spring. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Calgary oil company files $400-million lawsuit against Alberta government over proposed Rigel oil sands project
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney speaks at the Rideau Club in Ottawa on Thursday, March 12, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Alberta scraps coal-mining leases in face of public outcry
This handout image shows Grassy Mountain, Alberta looking south west. A proposed coal mine that would create hundreds of jobs but shear off a mountaintop in one of Alberta's most sensitive environments is to go to a public hearing this week. Riversdale Resources, proponent of the Grassy Mountain steel-making coal project near the town of Blairmore in the province's southwest, says the mine would create two decades of solid employment and improve a site scarred by previous development. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Riversdale Resources **
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Morning Update: Trump impeached again, charged with incitement of insurrection
**EDS.: RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT TITLE FIELD** Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) displays the signed the article of impeachment at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, after the House on impeached President Donald Trump for inciting a violent insurrection against the United States government, as 10 members of the president’s party joined Democrats to charge him with high crimes and misdemeanors for an unprecedented second time. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)
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Energy regulator reports spill of about 400,000 litres of produced water from Alberta pipeline
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Polaris pipeline system partly closed following spill near Fort McMurray
Inter Pipeline's Heartland Petrochemical Complex is shown under construction in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., on Jan. 10, 2019. Operator Inter Pipeline Ltd. says it has partially shut down its Polaris pipeline system following a leak detected on Crown land just east of the Fort McMurray airport in northern Alberta.
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Big oil patch names join legal battle over Sequoia Resources bankruptcy
Dave Marks of the Alberta Orphan Well Association checks out an abandoned well site they will decommission near High River, Alberta, August 12, 2020. Todd Korol/The Globe and Mail
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Energy firm charged with hindering Alberta Energy Regulator facility inspections
The Alberta Energy Regulator logo is seen on a flag at the opening of the regulator's office in Calgary in an undated handout photo.
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Alberta government overhauls oil well liability system to fix decades-old issue of inactive sites
A de-commissioned pumpjack is shown at a well head on an oil and gas installation near Cremona, Alta., on Oct. 29, 2016.
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New oil sands projects would no longer need government approval under new Alberta bill
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney makes his way to the chamber as the Alberta Legislature sits through the weekend to pass a series of emergency bills, in Edmonton on Friday, March 20, 2020. Alberta politicians are coming back to the legislature this week to sit until late July, passing 10 bills while continuing to keep social distance and dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Alberta mulls bill that would limit energy project approval time
A de-commissioned pumpjack is shown at a well head on an oil and gas installation near Cremona, Alta., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. Alberta's energy regulator is making changes that it hopes will keep bad operators out of the province's oilpatch. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Alberta’s UCP government needs to apply strategic thinking to its environmental policies
Kelly Cryderman
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Alberta Energy Regulator suspends environmental monitoring for oilpatch due to COVID-19 pandemic
A haul truck carrying a full load drives away from a mining shovel at the Shell Albian Sands oil sands mine, near Fort McMurray, Alta., on July 9, 2008.
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Morning Update: Summer enrolment up at universities despite online shift
A man registers at a mobile COVID-19 testing clinic, Thursday May 14, 2020 in Montreal North.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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Alberta’s Energy Regulator looks to be reining in its leniency
Jeffrey Jones
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Morning Update: How many tests are enough? Canada’s goals under the microscope
A man registers at a mobile COVID-19 testing clinic, Thursday May 14, 2020 in Montreal North.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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Alberta suspends environmental monitoring rules for oil sands during pandemic
FILE PHOTO: Oil goes into a tailings pond at the Suncor oil sands operations near Fort McMurray, Alberta, September 17, 2014. In 1967 Suncor helped pioneer the commercial development of Canada's oil sands, one of the largest petroleum resource basins in the world. Picture taken September 17, 2014. REUTERS/Todd Korol//File Photo
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Alberta Energy Regulator blocks sale of Shell assets over cleanup concerns
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Restoring faith in Alberta Energy Regulator to be an ‘interesting leadership challenge’ for Laurie Pushor
A pumpjack works at a well head on an oil and gas installation near Cremona, Alta., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. A shortage of capital and a mindset devoted to "hunkering down" in the face of persistent headwinds mean mergers and acquisitions activity in Canada's oilpatch will likely remain at low ebb in 2020, analysts say. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Alberta’s top court overturns oil sands mine approval over First Nations concerns for land
Top court overturns oilsands mine approval over Aboriginal concerns for land
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Former Saskatchewan deputy energy minister appointed as head of Alberta Energy Regulator
A de-commissioned pumpjack is shown at a well head on an oil and gas installation near Cremona, Alta., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. Alberta's energy regulator is making changes that it hopes will keep bad operators out of the province's oilpatch. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Former energy regulator executives repeatedly ignored rules, Alberta’s A-G says in report
Former energy regulator executives repeatedly ignored rules, Alberta’s A-G says in report