Alberta’s been on a roll. In July, Moody’s upgraded Alberta’s outlook from stable to positive and affirmed its AA2 credit rating. The respected research firm cited the province’s balanced budget, debt repayment legislation and spending constraints for its decision.
The Green Line vision – by its name tied to ‘Climate Change’ – was conceptualized in 2016 with lots of justification and talk about Calgary expanding by hundreds of thousands of people, and how this new line transporting people to all life’s events would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and road congestion.
The Honourable RJ Sigurdson was first elected as the MLA for Highwood in 2019 and was re-elected this past May. He grew up working on his family farm north of Cochrane, started his working career in Oil and Gas working on a Conventional drilling rig, later becoming an experienced red seal sheet metal worker and a senior project manager & shareholder for Avalanche Air Systems. Following his re-election, Mr. Sigurdson was sworn in as Alberta’s Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation after previously serving as the Parliamentary Secretary for EMS Reform.
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AEG Members and Non-Members: Tanya Fir, Minister of Arts, Culture and Status of Women, and Sue Riddell Rose, Founder & Board Chair at Canada Powered by Women, presents: Women’s voices in Energy.
The current federal government decree is for all new passenger vehicles to have net-zero emissions by 2035 – that’s only 11 years away. Rather than liquid or gaseous fuel, electric vehicles (EVs) run on electricity and must get that electricity from somewhere.
Housing has now become the PM’s latest expertise. He has declared ‘their plan’ to solve the housing crisis. With no background in the housing industry, his Party has outlined steps they intend to take to accomplish ‘his plan’ to build more homes.
After extensive consultation with our members, we must convey that we are in firm disagreement with CSDS 1and CSDS 2 as they are expected to bring about increased costs and uncertainties for businesses, particularly SMEs, with limited advantages for larger corporations, investors, or consumers. We must point out that these standards also contradict the values of a free market system by influencing investor choices and directing capital flows in a manner inconsistent with free enterprise.
The precarity of our supply chains was one of the unsettling realities revealed by the pandemic. All it took was a strain on a single link to cause shortages throughout the system. In some cases, it was an annoying inconvenience. In other cases, it was much more serious, including shortages of baby formula, computer chips and the contrast dye used for X-rays, ultrasounds, CT and MRI scans.
Attendees to yet another COP28 gathering of ‘the rich, the famous and the confused’ under the guise of saving the world from alleged manmade global warming, met in oil-rich Dubai to talk about a ‘phase out’ or ‘phase down’ of hydrocarbon energy.
