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CALGARY -- Alberta's latest step toward a possible vote on splitting from Canada adds an unwelcome layer of unpredictability in an already shaky global economic landscape, business leaders said Friday.
CALGARY -- The head of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce says uncertainty around Alberta's future role in the country brings risks for investor confidence, economic growth and Canada's global competitiveness at "exactly the wrong time."
CALGARY -- The Alberta and federal governments have tied up one of the last remaining loose threads hanging from the energy accord they signed late last year.
Ottawa's electricity strategy will consider ways government can shoulder some of the cost of doubling the country's grid by 2050 and ensure equipment and workers are available to make it happen.
CALGARY -- Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. is moving ahead with early engineering work on two steam-driven oilsands projects, but an $8.25-billion mine expansion remains on hold until questions around government environmental policies are resolved.
CALGARY -- The chief executive at Cenovus Energy Inc. says the national dialogue around future oilsands development has been "myopically focused on the climate agenda" a day after a coalition of green groups lamented the "unhelpful feedback loop" that's taken root around pipeline development and environmental regulations.
CALGARY -- The Competition Bureau says Keyera Corp.'s proposed $5.15-billion purchase of Plains All American Pipeline LP's natural gas liquids business is likely to harm energy producers and stifle investment.
CALGARY -- Environmental advocates say a tax incentive for "low carbon" liquefied natural gas facilities amounts to a government subsidy for the fossil fuel industry.
CALGARY -- Alberta and Ottawa have reached an "agreement-in-principle" that puts the province in control of regulating its methane emissions, with final rules expected by the end of this year.
The Business Development Bank of Canada is increasing the funds available to entrepreneurs looking to take advantage of an anticipated boom in defence spending.
CALGARY -- Alberta is taking another run at having a court strike down federal project review legislation.
CALGARY -- A former U.S. State Department official says he's optimistic the Canada-U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement will be renewed.
CALGARY -- An expansion project has been put on hold at a diamond mine in the Far North, a move the Northwest Territories government says underscores the need to reduce its economic reliance on that industry.
CALGARY -- Business groups are urging the Alberta government to repeal its tax on wine.
CALGARY -- U.S. oil producers will likely be the first to cut output should the global crude price continue to languish below US$60 per barrel, but their Canadian peers should be able to keep chugging along, energy experts say.
CALGARY -- The prospect of building a new bitumen pipeline to the West Coast has garnered most of the attention since Ottawa and Alberta announced their sweeping energy accord late last month, but another item has left environmentalists dismayed and energy industry players pleasantly surprised.
CALGARY -- A Canadian pipeline boss led a new report advising the Trump administration on how to more quickly build new oil and gas infrastructure in the United States amid a push north of the border to do the same.
CALGARY -- Analysts at CIBC Capital Markets say they don't expect the private sector to take the lead on a new West Coast oilsands pipeline so long as the British Columbia government and First Nations are opposed.
CALGARY -- Oil and gas industry advocates say they're heartened by an expected agreement between Alberta and Ottawa on a new West Coast pipeline, but their optimism is tempered by the long list of obstacles that would remain.
CALGARY -- A new oilsands pipeline to the northern B.C. coast is a non-starter as long as oil tankers are forbidden there, but experts say a removal of the federal ban would only lift one of many obstacles deterring the private sector from such a project.
CALGARY -- Alberta and Ottawa are said to be closing in on a "grand bargain" that could see a new West Coast oilsands pipeline built in tandem with emissions-offsetting measures, but it's unclear it would be enough to incent private industry to invest in such a project.
The chief executive of Saskatchewan-based Cameco Corp. wants to make clear that the U.S. government is not getting involved in its main uranium mining business under a massive nuclear reactor deal announced last week.
CALGARY -- Few are as acquainted with Canada's graveyard of defunct oil pipelines as Alex Pourbaix, a former executive at the company behind the Keystone XL and Energy East proposals.
An Indigenous advocate in northern Ontario says his community's past experience with Anglo American PLC's diamond-mining subsidiary De Beers does not inspire confidence that a proposed merger between the U.K. company and Vancouver-based Teck Resources Ltd. would benefit First Nations.
CALGARY -- Enbridge CEO Greg Ebel says Ottawa would need to make a lot of changes before his company would be willing to build the West Coast bitumen pipeline the Alberta government is pitching.
CALGARY -- Analysts at CIBC say they're doubtful Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's plan to spur development of a West Coast bitumen pipeline will succeed.
CALGARY -- Premier Danielle Smith said Wednesday that Alberta plans to submit an application for a new oil pipeline to northwestern British Columbia, describing it as a higher calling for those in need around the world.
CALGARY -- The Alberta government said Wednesday it plans to submit an application for a new oil pipeline to northwestern British Columbia.
BANFF -- U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra says he's offended by the suggestion that President Donald Trump is uninformed about what Canada has to offer his country.
CALGARY -- Alberta's premier says she sees promising signs in the first batch of projects announced under Ottawa's new fast-tracked approval process, but environmentalists warn the inclusion of liquefied natural gas locks Canada into a high-carbon future.
CALGARY -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she expects the private sector to lead the way on potentially bringing nuclear power to the province.
Shares in Hudbay Minerals Inc. surged after it announced a deal with Mitsubishi Corp. to sell a 30 per cent stake in an Arizona copper project the Toronto-based miner says will support U.S. national security goals.
CALGARY -- Canadian oil and gas drillers that import vast amounts of sand from the United States are getting relief from counter-tariffs that could have added heavy costs to industry.
CALGARY -- The chiefs of four First Nations in Alberta say they're eager to take part in the province's nascent data centre industry, but argue the province is taking the wrong approach to attract large-scale tech players.
CALGARY -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has expressed confidence one or more private-sector pipeline operators will come forward with a plan to ship oilsands crude to the Port of Prince Rupert, B.C., and test the federal government's new regime to speed along projects deemed in Canada's national interest.
CALGARY -- CALGARY -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has expressed confidence one or more private-sector pipeline operators will come forward with a plan to ship oilsands crude to the Port of Prince Rupert, B.C., and test the federal government's new regime to speed along projects deemed in Canada's national interest.
CALGARY -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is pitching the idea of a "port-to-port corridor" that would connect energy and other goods to Canada's northern Pacific and Arctic coasts.
CALGARY -- The Alberta government is working to entice a private-sector player to build a major crude pipeline to coastal waters, Premier Danielle Smith said Wednesday.
CALGARY -- Former federal Conservative cabinet minister Rona Ambrose says the secessionist sentiment in Alberta is an unwelcome source of uncertainty for investors -- but it could fizzle out quickly if Ottawa handles it right.
CALGARY -- The chief executive of the Canada Infrastructure Bank says the Crown corporation is looking forward to playing a role in Ottawa's ambitions to push ahead major projects deemed in the national interest.
CALGARY -- The chief executive of WestJet Group says the federal government should not treat air travel as a luxury in a country as vast as Canada and reducing costs to the industry would help foster national unity.
CALGARY -- Ottawa is weighing the proposed takeover of Calgary-based Parkland Corp. by American fuel distributor Sunoco LP at a time of fraught Canada-U.S. relations and amped-up resource nationalism.
CALGARY -- Energy industry groups and environmental advocates were striking a hopeful note a day after voters returned the Liberals to power in Ottawa.
CALGARY -- The industry group representing Canada's oil and gas service contractors has laid out its top priorities for the Liberal government in Ottawa, which held onto power in Monday's federal election.
Canada's main stock index saw a modest uplift Monday as the federal election campaign came to an end, while U.S. markets were mixed ahead of earnings reports from tech heavyweights.
The chief executive of pipeline operator TC Energy says he believes Canada can be the No. 1 exporter of liquefied natural gas to Asia, but political leadership is crucial to making it happen.
CALGARY -- Western Canadian business groups have outlined their wish list ahead of an expected federal election call this weekend.
CALGARY -- A group of energy sector chief executives is calling on the leaders of the four federal political parties to declare a Canadian energy crisis and use emergency powers to help speed the development of key projects in the "national interest."
The head of the Canada Infrastructure Bank says the power and export-enabling projects the Crown corporation backs are more crucial than ever as trade tumult intensifies with the United States.
CALGARY -- Margaret Atwood has been called prescient -- particularly when it comes to her famous 1985 dystopia "The Handmaid's Tale" and the recent rollback of reproductive rights in the United States -- but the renowned Canadian author says her predictive powers failed her ahead of last week's U.S. election, which delivered Donald Trump another White House win.
CALGARY -- Calgary's mayor says every skipped toilet flush over the next two weeks will matter as repairs on a troubled water main near the finish line and a treatment plant picking up the slack works full-tilt.
CALGARY -- For almost two weeks, a city of 1.6 million people has been told once again to stop watering lawns, take three-minute showers, hold off on laundry and dishes, and let the yellow in their toilets mellow.