Alberta Energy Regulator

A new analysis of a decade's worth of data kept by Alberta’s oil and gas regulator suggests the agency has made unsubstantiated claims about the success of oilsands tailings spills cleanup.

Announcing an upcoming motion under her Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act on Tuesday, Smith said the government plans to challenge the cap in court when or if it becomes law, and that it will take the steps necessary to give the province exclusive authority and ownership of emissions data, ban federal employees from designated oil and gas facilities, and more.

The Alberta Energy Regulator is denying a request from the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and group of environmental organizations for an environmental assessment of the Pathways Alliance’s proposed carbon capture project.

An energy company that runs a natural gas well north of Calgary says a roughly 24-hour fire that injured five workers has finally been snuffed out.

An explosion at an energy site northwest of Calgary has injured five workers, and RCMP say the resulting fire could burn for days.

Efforts to investigate damage from contaminated wastewater onto Indigenous lands in Alberta are crucial, but won’t undo the years of damage from weak enforcement of Canada’s environmental laws.

When the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) announced Imperial Oil had to pay a $50,000 administrative penalty, it said this was the maximum base amount allowed under the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act. This is "absolutely not" accurate, according to experts.

The group's current president, Laurie Pushor, announced last week that he wouldn't seek a new contract after his current term expires next April.

The Alberta Energy Regulator's $50,000 fine for Imperial Oil for tailings leaks at one of its oilsands facilities is a paltry measure in the face of its massive profits, according to several critics.

Following years of advocacy and struggle, Indigenous nations downstream of the oilsands have received funding to understand the diseases they argue are a direct cause of the fossil fuel industry.

In the latest version of its annual forecast, released Monday, the Alberta Energy Regulator predicts production of raw bitumen will grow to four million barrels per day in 2033, up from the 3.4 million barrels per day that was produced last year.

For the first time, Alberta's oil and gas industry has exceeded the province's own regulatory limit for natural gas flaring.

A Calgary energy company has been ordered to abandon close to 2,000 wells, pipeline sections and other facilities over concerns about care and maintenance of the sites. But questions remain about whether Tallahassee Exploration will be able to pay for the multimillion-dollar reclamation plan the provincial regulator has ordered the company to submit.

In February, Energy Minister Brian Jean wrote a letter to the Alberta Energy Regulator suggesting three coal exploration applications for the province's Rocky Mountains should be exempt from a government order banning such development.