Deregulation of Alberta’s electricity sector in the ’90s.
The global financial crisis of the 2000s.
Today, he sees a more daunting transformation ahead, one that surrounds the global energy transition, climate concerns and the role of companies and consumers as Canada seeks to reach “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
“Challenges always look bigger when they’re in the windshield as opposed to in the rear-view mirror, but it is, in my mind, a very challenging prospect,” Kiefer, 62, said in an interview Thursday.
“We will need to change the way we behave, the way we think about energy, the way we use it, in order to accomplish our long-term goals. And change is a difficult thing to enlist on society as a whole.
Deregulation of Alberta’s electricity sector in the ’90s.
The global financial crisis of the 2000s.
Today, he sees a more daunting transformation ahead, one that surrounds the global energy transition, climate concerns and the role of companies and consumers as Canada seeks to reach “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
“Challenges always look bigger when they’re in the windshield as opposed to in the rear-view mirror, but it is, in my mind, a very challenging prospect,” Kiefer, 62, said in an interview Thursday.
“We will need to change the way we behave, the way we think about energy, the way we use it, in order to accomplish our long-term goals. And change is a difficult thing to enlist on society as a whole.
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney plans to reintroduce so-called turn-off-the-taps legislation that could limit oil exports to other provinces after an existing bill came out of force last week.
The Preserving Canada’s Economic Prosperity Act was the first piece of legislation proclaimed by Kenney’s UCP government in 2019 after the previous NDP government introduced it in 2018 but did not bring it into effect.
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It was meant to give Alberta more control over the export of its crude oil in the middle of a bitter dispute between Alberta and B.C. over the TransMountain pipeline expansion (TMX), a project that has since proceeded.
Alberta Tops BC in Court Battle Over Provincial Rights to Control Oil, Natural Gas Pipeline Flows
The Alberta government has won an epic court battle with its British Columbia (BC) counterpart over rights of oil- and natural gas-producing provinces to control pipeline flows.
The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal dismissed a BC lawsuit against a 2018 Alberta bill nicknamed the “turn-off-the-taps act,” formally titled the Preserving Canada’s Economic Prosperity Act. BC was also directed to pay costs of the two-year case.
The ruling overturned an injunction by the Federal Court of Canada trial division that blocked Alberta from using its contested bill to prevent BC from opposing the 590,000 b/d Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (TMX) of its oil pipeline.
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