CALGARY – Ottawa’s massive planned changes to emission regulations for power producers and oilsands projects have the potential to remake Alberta’s generation industry – and scare investment from bitumen extraction and upgrading, experts say.
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Almost every day of the campaign – tomorrow is election day – he has been ambushed by embarrassing revelations that have shot holes in his government’s key economic strategy: extracting and selling the oil in the tar sands of northern Alberta.
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KALISPELL – Canadian politicians and industry remain keenly interested in coal-bed methane reserves north of Glacier National Park, despite an announcement last week that such plans were off the table.
“We are still very interested in the potential of the Canadian Flathead,” said Jessica Whiteside, spokesperson for BP Canada. Her company already has begun collecting environmental data there, in anticipation of energy development, “and we do plan to continue those environmental studies.”
The reason BP Canada continues investing in the Flathead, even after British Columbia’s government pulled that drainage out of a broader project, is because the company “will ask for coal-bed methane rights in the Flathead” sometime in the future.
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