Cenovus’s proposed $5.7-billion purchase of Athabasca would lift its oil sands production share to 21.5 per cent, Wood Mackenzie estimates.
Author Jeremy Appel argues Danielle Smith channels anti-elite anger into an agenda that strengthens corporate power. His Energi Media interview explores oil interests, separatism and the durability of her political legacy.
Political scientist Stewart Prest says Canada must respond clearly to U.S. involvement in separatist politics and Danielle Smith’s ambiguity in Alberta.
Political scientist Duane Bratt says Alberta separatists’ contacts with U.S. political actors amount to foreign interference, while warning the Oct. 19 referendum could be followed by a Trump-style backlash over mail-in ballots.
Ottawa and Alberta will jointly explore high-speed rail linking Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton, with Alberta preparing to seek private-sector proposals this fall.
A new U.S.-Venezuela oil agreement could reshape heavy-crude competition by giving Washington a direct interest in Venezuelan production and preferential access to some of the barrels.
Political scientist Duane Bratt says Alberta’s oil-heavy economy has insulated it from Trump’s tariffs, while the trade war is testing Danielle Smith’s U.S. strategy and Alberta separatism.
Thomas Lukaszuk says Alberta should stop shielding oil and gas from Canada’s response to Donald Trump and cancel the October 19 referendum in the name of national unity.
Alberta’s oil sands were not simply discovered and developed. Jeremy Schmidt argues that government science, geoscience, technology and water governance helped create the modern petroleum economy — and shaped how Alberta thinks about land and energy.
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