Dale Nally, #ableg associate nat gas minister, now announcing the new #petrochemical program for Alberta. It'a a 10-yr, billion-dollar program, in which companies will receive grants when they build new petrochem facilities in the province. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…#cdnpoli
Nally is very excited about this program, by the by. He says Alberta is taking action now to attract as much petrochemical investment as possible. The program starts this fall. He says it has the potential to bring 1000s jobs, billions of $ to Alberta. #ableg#cdnpoli
Nally says grants are way more attractive than royalty credits to the petrochem sector. Royalty credits have been the way successive #ableg governments have pursued investment in Alberta, btw... the PCs used them, the NDP used them too.
Oh and the #ableg government will continue the petrochemical diversification program (you might remember that one as a particular favourite of the NDP gvt). This new grant program will run alongside it.
Greg Moffatt, with the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada, says Alberta's new petrochem grant program is welcome news. He also says maybe it'll help convince the feds to look at ways to attract more petrochemical investments here. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…#ableg#cdnpoli
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Premier Smith insisted Alberta Electric Systems Operator asked for a pause on renewables. In fact, internal emails show the AESO head was 'not comfortable' with the plan but was told to 'support the minister without reservation'. Via @DrewPAnderson #ablegthenarwhal.ca/alberta-renewa…
This is a really important read by my pal @DrewPAnderson. Made all the more 🔥 when you re-watch the video from the press conference in which Smith doubles down on the AESO asking for the renewables pause. Here, I’ve clipped it for you 😊 #ableg #cdnpoli
@DrewPAnderson “The desire to halt the new project pipeline is a very troubling message for me, and is something we need to provide good messaging against…when we have the opportunity,” the AESO head wrote to colleagues in June 2023. Does that sound like a man who asked for the pause? #ableg
Oh hey the Alberta government is having an townhall about the drought. I don't remember seeing any notification of this at all, but anyway Minister Schulz is up now. "I don't think Alberta will receive enough precipitation to prevent a severe drought," she says #ableg
The town hall about Alberta's drought is here... ag, environment and municipal affairs ministers all on the call and there is lots of time for Qs. #ableg #cdnpolivideo.teleforumonline.com/video/streamin…
These are alarming numbers NOT limited to sthrn Alberta. Many rivers and reservoirs are at or near historic lows "due to several years of below average precipitation." Old Man reservoir 28% capacity, normal range 62-80%. St. Mary's reservoir is at 15%, normal values 41-70% #ableg
Oil sands companies in the Pathways Alliance have awarded a $10m contract to Wood, a global engineering company, to develop detailed plans for a 400km CO2 pipeline that will eventually link >20 oil sands facilities with a storage hub near Cold Lake #cdnecon#oott#ableg
Wood’s work will focus on the main transportation line linking 14 oil sands facilities to the storage hub (think pipe size, materials, monitoring station design, route). It’ll also help inform overall capital and operations cost estimates #cdnecon#oott#ableg
The oil sands work will support a regulatory application later in the year. Pathways expects $16.5b to spent on the carbon capture network (including $ from governments). It reckons the project will ⬇️ net carbon emissions by 10-12m tonnes/year by 2030 #cdnecon#cdnpoli#ableg
Huh. Thomas Dang has stepped down from NDP caucus. RCMP searched his home lately #ableg
Notley is talking now. Something about the covid19 records page. She says Dang visited the page and notified AHS about his concerns regarding privacy on that website. She says they have a longstanding policy that caucus members under police investigation can't be in caucus #ableg
I spoke to groups who got notices from the anti-oil Alberta Inquiry into foreign funding. If they do reply, commissioner Steve Allan reckons 14 days is enough time to consider 1,200 pages of responses he could get b4 the report's due /1 #ableg#cdnpolitheglobeandmail.com/business/artic…
Also, remember how Kenney repeatedly referenced the Pembina Institute when he promised this inquiry during the election? Pembina got less $$ from international grants than from O&G companies that contracted the think tank to help find environmental solutions. /2 #ableg#cdnpoli
The same is true for Greenpeace. It got $2.9m in foreign donations from 2007-2018 for oil sands campaigns, but $5.6m from Albertans over the same period. /3 #ableg#cdnpoli
Alberta gets another credit downgrade. S&P has lowered from A+ to A, citing large deficits averaging more than 25% of revenues during fiscal 2020-24. Says pandemic has "further worsened AB's budgetary
balances" which had not yet recovered from oil price slump /1 #ableg#cdnpoli
S&P says Alberta's downgrade is "the culmination of the two powerful economic shocks that Alberta has endured in the past six years," adds the province entered the pandemic with "relative fiscal weakness" b/c of the prolonged oil slump that started in 2014 /2 #ableg#cdnpoli
S&P adds Alberta's budgetary results deteriorated & its tax-supported debt burden "rose to a greater extent" than all other Canadian provinces." Consequently, AB's operating and after-capital deficits are the largest of any local/regional gvt in Canada /3 #ableg#cdnpoli