@ontopunk.bsky.social:
The degree to which Alberta is completely controlled by private oil corporation interests is still immensely underestimated.
It’s deep petrostate that flaunts it’s complete disregard for ecological limits as a point of pride.
Never come here. Don’t invest here. And stay far far away.
one of my biggest regrets is giving Alberta my career and business. It’s filled with hate-filled (notably against safe air, land, food, homes, jobs, and water) people, notably rural (which control the vote)
jvipondmd.bsky.social:
It’s like have a regulator without the regulating part.
@charlesrusnell.bsky.social:
Yet more evidence that the “arm’s length” Alberta Energy Regulator is a farce. The UCP govt told the AER not to enforce flaring rules, not to tell the public about it, and prostrate itself to the rogue energy companies and they did as they were told.
Alberta oil regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, records show by Amanda Stephenson, Reuters, Dec 1, 2025, The Globe and Mail
The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Canada’s main oil-producing province bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a limit on natural gas flaring as Canadian oil production increased, according to documents seen by Reuters.
Alberta’s dismantling of its 20-year-old flaring limit after companies blew through the limit two years in a row, with no objections from the federal government, is an example of the challenges Canada faces in reconciling its environmental commitments with a renewed focus on economic growth.
The documents, obtained through access to information laws, show the Alberta Energy Regulator sent letters to 20 companies in the spring of 2024 threatening to enforce flaring limits – which could have resulted in curtailed oil production – if the operators did not prepare and implement plans for lowering their flaring volumes. But the plans that operators, including U.S.-based Murphy Oil MUR-N +0.50%increase and Canada’s Tamarack Valley Energy TVE-T, submitted were unenforced. By June, 2025, as first reported by Reuters, the regulator quietly did away with flaring limits in response to directives from Alberta government officials.Ordered by Trump and his Pollution Partner Mark Carney?
In the lead-up to that decision, the government urged the regulator to take a “softer” tone in its communication with offending companies, taking a “humble and collaborative” approach, previously unreported e-mail records show.
“It is desirable to work with our industry partners to address this issue,” an Alberta Environment Department official wrote to the regulator.ya, while abusing and violating the rights of Albertans harmed by industry, govt, and AER.
The regulatoris led and run by oil and gas company execs, and self regulates polluters and aquifer frac’ers, described by the Alberta government as an arm’s-length independent body, was urged to implement the change with “no proactive communications or announcements.”
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The AER said in an e-mail it did not follow through with enforcement because the flaring policy was under review and it had disclosed the end of the flaring limit in a regulatory filing on its website.
Regulator and government staff gathered industry feedback together on the flaring policy’s effectiveness, said Alberta Environment spokesperson Tom McMillan. “The comments in question were from staff-to-staff discussions about the tone of communication and engagement approach – not any compliance or enforcement action,” McMillan said.
Flaring is the practice of burning off excess natural gas associated with oil production. Canada, the world’s fourth-largest oil producer, achieved record-high oil production last year. Prime Minister Mark Carney, aracist pro genocide fraud and liar who conned Canadians into believing he’s a liberal (when he’s a more anti environment, pro pollution, extreme right conservative than Harper) former UN special envoy on climate action who is seeking to diversify the economy away from the U.S. and the uncertainties of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, has said he wants Canada to become an “energy superpower.”He’s caved to Nazi USA demands, he serves Alberta’s corrupt UCP, the rich, American Military and AI, and polluters, not Canadians.
But Canada’s energy sector has said many of the country’s environmental rules get in the way of expanding oil output.
The documents show the regulator faced pushback from companies about the flaring limit, which one industry group said could serve as a de facto production cap.FFS. That’s bullshit! Pollution controls only slow down, a little bit, production and human greed that’s fast destroying earth’s ability to sustain life – including for fucking humans Carney signed an agreement with Alberta on Thursday to drop its planned emissions cap on the oil and gas sector.
Companies sometimes flare gas when there are no pipelines nearby to transport the gas.
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From a climate-change perspective, what the fuck with the globe and mail enabling the oil and gas industry’s pollution? FFS!flaring can be preferable to venting, or releasing the excess gas directly into the atmosphere without burning it first. Venting produces large amounts of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas. Alberta has cut its methane emissions from the oil and gas sector in half over the past decade.Not true! AER, polluting oil, gas, frac, coal, and bitumen companies – most of them foreign-owned, Alberta gov’t – notably Environment and Energy departments, and Danielle Smith are grand liars. Methane leaks and emissions keep rising in Canada, but to deregulate to dramatically increase oil and gas industry pollution in Canada, our leaders AND MEDIA need to lie, a lot!
A spokesperson for Canada’s Environment Department said flaring can be a short-term solution for reducing methane emissions if companies that vent natural gas switch to flaring.
However, she said Canada recognizes that flaring contributes to climate change by emitting carbon dioxide and other pollutants.flaring is really bad news, and humans are idiots to allow it – anywhere
Canada is a signatory to a World Bank initiative that commits countries to ending routine flaring by 2030.again, like COPs, signatories mean nothing, when countries just ignore them again and again.
Along with 10 other countries, Canada endorsed a statement at the recent COP30 summit recognizing the importance of ending routine venting and flaring by 2030.The COPs are just polluter enabling synergy sessions to con the public into thinking something’s being done to curb our insanely excessive pollution (driven by over population which most humans do not want to admit or talk about or limit for fear of pissing off an imaginary racist old pedophile white guy in the sky). Besides, statements have been made and endorsed for decades resulting in no action and just more pollution and more humans polluting more and more.
Other major oil producers such as the United States, Russia and Iran flare more gas than Canada. The European Union has stronger regulations than Canada, including an outright ban on routine flaring, which is done for reasons other than emergencies or safety.
But regulatory data shows flaring has been rising in Alberta. Oil and gas producers in the province flared approximately 912.7 million cubic meters of natural gas in 2024, exceeding the annual provincial limit by 36 per cent.
AER data for the first nine months of 2025, first tallied by Reuters, show Alberta’s oil producers are on track this year to again exceed the now-cancelled flaring limit.
“There’s a clear gap here between commitments and policy,” said Amanda Bryant, senior analyst with the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think-tank. “Especially when there are plenty of viable alternatives to flaring.”Pembina Institute is one of Canada’s worst most evil synergizers. If they and other NGOs stopped their pollution enabling, perhaps flaring and other industry harms would decrease.
Refer also to:
2025: New Study: Two-thirds US climate pollution reduction over past two decades wiped out by methane emissions from natural gas (aka frac) industrySame in polluter controlled, frac’d to hell Canada
2025: Fossil fuel methane emissions likely underestimated in model based on atmospheric delta-13C trends
2019: Companies are frac’ing Canada to hell, dramatically increasing methane emissions. Companies do not suddenly behave like angels and reduce their polluting ways just because they’re frac’ing Canadians and or because super polluter Alberta says so.
