I guess there's no Alberta oil or Saskatchewan potash, either www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New Post: CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator Denies Public Hearing Rights on a Coal Application ablawg.ca/2025/09/15...…coal-application/

New Post: The Government of Alberta’s Commitment to Protect Alberta's Water from Selenium Pollution ablawg.ca/2025/10/01...…lenium-pollution/

@charlesrusnell.bsky.social spoke to my class yesterday—great session! I asked him @ Al Beeber running campaign ads while still writing for the #Lethbridge Herald.👇 “You can’t be a politician AND a journalist,” and he said a leave of absence should have been mandatory. Call 403-328-4411 to complain.

Premier Smith's mandate letter to Minister Jean mentions all sorts of resources - oil and gas, geothermal, lithium etc but not a word about coal. So why is this govt so stubbornly continuing to hype this fossil resource? And what happened to the coal modernization initiative? Is it dead? #abpili

I lived in Madrid when Madrid Centro went into effect and it was amazing. I bring it up all the time as an example of the benefits of that kind of policy choice.

Bruce McAllister, while representing our government and Premier at the recent Alberta Next Panel, mocked a child and backed corporal punishment. He has the right to push separatism, but this conduct shows he has no place in government. His terse apology only reveals bitterness.

After cancelling 11 gigawatts of wind, solar and energy storage projects which would have resulted in thousands of clean energy jobs, Danielle Smith decides they should sink public money into another oil pipeline to the coast. This will surely fail as there is no social license in #bc for […]

As with all of these mandate letters that are being dribbled out to feed the media - after the bash the feds points it's always what's missing rather than what's in the letter that's important. One example: Indigenous Relations - not a word about UNDRIP implementation legislation. #capoli #abpoli

You pay, they profit, they leave a mess, you pay again. Repeat as necessary www.theenergymix.com/any-new-oil-... #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #ClimateChange

Well also bad deal for BC, and we say no way no how, but even worse for the planet. No more O&G BS we need to be investing in green energy only. Futures of O&G already lowering. #cdnpoli

If Alberta is the proponent (as the GoA press release promises) then our at risk $$ won't be just a few millions they will be in the billions. The pipeline companies & producers have called Premier Smith's bluff and she's gambling with our money, not hers. An easy game to play. #abpoli #cdnpoli

Alberta's advisory (aka booster) group includes a member of the board of directors of the AER. It's true that any such project will be regulated by the feds but this still fails the smell test. #cdnpoli

Here's my effort w David Luff & Neil Kathol to hold the GoA's feet to the fire when it comes to its commitment to protect Alberta's water sources (& those of downstream users) from coal-related selenium contamination #abpoli @cpawssab.bsky.social @cpawsnab.bsky.social @albertawilderness.bsky.social

A better preface: It may cost as much as "$6.4 billion to reverse rising selenium concentrations in Canadian and U.S. waters and operate those treatment systems for 60 years" from the mining of metallurgical coal in the Elk Valley. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Standing with you on this and hope the same is true of your dean, Dean Fiona Kelly as well as all of your law school and indeed U of A colleagues #abpoli #ableg

I hope CAUT and your faculty union will follow up with you. That's pretty wild.

This administration, president Bill Flanagan, has consistently bowed to conservative pressures and has acted against free speech on campus. I am sorry you were a target of these oppressive measures. Self-censorship, especially for younger and contract faculty, is real.

Important piece by Andrew Nikiforuk on Lemkin and the origins of the Genocide Convention. Thanks to Andrew for writing it and the Tyee for publishing. #cdnpoli #abpoli

Put this spurious poll together with Emma Graney's puff piece in the G & M last week on Northback's intent to file a new Grassy Mtn application, & it's pretty clear that Northback is launching a slick campaign to hoodwink Alberta voters & pressure the GoA. #abpoli #cdnpoli @cpawssab.bsky.social

Here's to celebrating Spain and Ireland.

After President Trump's fatuous nonsense speech to UNGA on the occasion of the UN's 80th anniversary, consider listening to a real speech, that of. Norway's Foreign Minister, Espen Barth Eide. Gaza at about 6.00, climate change at about 12. #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbcE...

Perhaps Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs to re-read UNGA Resolution 181(2) (1947) - and not just the part he likes. docs.un.org/en/A/RES/181... #cdnpoli

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

“We have had so many problems in ensuring the full implementation of our Modern #Treaties over the years. The establishment of this new office will assist us in ensuring the effective implementation of our agreements.” #Indigenous #FirstNations #Inuit #cdnpoli

I need to say a few words about Darren. He was, in many ways, the doctor all doctors needed to be. Compassionate, caring, an advocate and a poet. We were all privliged to have him in our world. And we are poorer for his departure from it. Wherever you are, I hope there are paddles and pedals.

If allowed to proceed, the MD of Taber would be setting a bad precedent by reversing course on grassland protection and a promise not to allow conversion of these lands. #AbAg #LivingPrairieGrassland #Drought #Conservation #Taber cpaws-southernalberta.org/md-of-taber-...

Justice Feasby has issued his decision on interventions in the Alberta Independence referendum case. P'raps the most imp point is the clarification that even if the referendum crosses this hurdle the CEO will still have to assess the "same Q" issue: 2025 ABKB 552, <https://canlii.ca/t/kfk68> #abpoli

Crying again. "Darren did not want a formal funeral. If you are reading this and want to honour him the way he would have wanted, do what he did every day: go outside, ride your bike, enjoy nature, and do something kind for a stranger." Damn straight. edmontonjournal.remembering.ca/obituary/dar...

Premier Smith's mandate letter to Mickey Amery. No surprises. All about fighting the feds. Nothing about shared objectives. Nothing about introducing something like a regulatory impact analysis statement for new regulations to improve transparency and accountability. #abpoli #cdnpoli

A glorious day picking berries south of Trondheim.

NEW The Prime Minister’s extraordinary and significant statement on MI5 misleading the High Court A practical example of the judiciary and executive holding the security service to account By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-prime-... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...

Had an Q from a former student (now a KC) wondering when I became an expert on middle-eastern affairs. Ans: I don't need to be an expert on mid-east history to call genocide when I see it; both the facts of genocide & the necessary intent as revealed by the statements of senior Israeli ministers.

Yay!! So pleased to see that the Court of Appeal is being asked to rule on the Q of when the AER's CEO can interfere in an application before AER hearing commissioners. My response FWIW is: never. 1/

This is simply obscene. Forced evacuation after forced evacuation. One more step in the State of Israel's campaign of genocide against Palestinian people. #cdnpoli

Very sad day for YEG

OMG what a loss, so well respected on social media and always enjoyed his posts.

A few thoughts on Danielle Smith’s plan to put citizenship status on driver’s licenses and the UCP’s continuing rhetoric targeting newcomers. You deserve better and better is possible. 1/2 #abpoli

Ceasefire NOW. Arms embargo NOW. Sanction NOW. Close the loopholes NOW. Aid for Palestine NOW. Sign the petition: act.gp/3W0Kiag

FINALLY! Now STOP sending Israel weapons, ammo and other war machinery!

It didn’t take long for an oil company to rely on the flawed decision of the CEO of Alberta Energy Regulator to cancel a hearing on coal applications, commented on by Prof. @nigelb.bsky.social, to argue landowner associations should be denied (intervenor) status in AER Proceeding ID 462. #AERReform

Finally - a Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada’s recognition of the State of Palestine. But it falls far short of calling out, let alone condemning, the genocide being committed by the State of Israel. This is not enough. #abpoli #cdnpoli

"In August of 2025, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled Premier #DougFord 's ambitions to rip out the City of Toronto's #BikeLanes as a violation of Canadian charter rights. Specifically, it's inconsistent with the constitutional protection of life, liberty and security." #yyc #yycbike

Insightful analysis on EJIL Talk today - of relevance to both international and domestic law. #abpoli #cdnpoli #ableg

#Canada must join Norway, Saudi Arabia & the EU in the meeting of the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution & continue work with Ad Hoc Liaison Committee for #Palestine @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social @coreyhogan.ca @eleanorolszewski.bsky.social

Canada? @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social @coreyhogan.ca

hot take: Proposed update to TIER that allows companies to count on site investments as payments is not good policy. 1. It's hard to set the BAU against which these investments count 2. It is double counting, thats the whole point of a carbon tax 1/ www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

Here's how we got here: - A provincial regulator panel DENIED the company's request to cancel. - The (upset) company used political pressure to appeal to energy minister + regulator CEO to cancel. - CEO sidesteps the regulator panel and cancels the hearing. shorturl.at/JE7Nl @nigelb.bsky.social

Entire report is utterly damning but p’raps esp the concl that Israel's "widespread and systematic targeting of children is part of a strategy to destroy the biological continuity and future existence of the Palestinian group in Gaza, thus part of the intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza.” [219]