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“The oil industry isn’t asking for a deal, they’re demanding unconditional surrender,” said [me]. “It is utter folly in a long-term economic and environmental sense.”
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As an anarchist who loves tech I find it more and more depressing every day that China is starting to look like a better prospect to live in.
Alberta rejigs industrial carbon pricing to allow technology investments by Emma Graney and Jeffrey Jones, Sept 16, 2025, The Globe and Mail
Alberta is changing its industrial carbon tax system to allow major emitters to account for investments in emissions reduction technology at their sites 
There are none that are not lies!in lieu of paying into a provincial fund or buying carbon credits, as is now the case.
The province also said it would allow smaller emitters that are part of the program to opt out of it this year to reduce regulatory burdens, and reinvest the savings into emission reduction or other operational improvements.To run faster from clean up, law violations, murdered workers, and contaminated water, etc.?
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said on Tuesday that the changes to the Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction, or TIER, program are aimed at bolstering the competitiveness Translation of that Dildo Danielle hogwash = deregulation so that polluters and law violators can make more money for the rich, mostly Nazi Americansof Alberta’s major industries, notably the oil sands, whose largest operators are considering a $16.5-billion carbon capture and storage project.ya, considering alright, only if Harper Con Carney forces starving Canadians to pay for it all. Douche Fuckers, the entire lying KKKLan of them
They will allow businesses to invest directly into technology through TIER, choosing the best technologies for their needs, Ms. Smith said.
“This approach allows company to meet up to 90 per cent of their compliance obligations by investing in projects at their own facilities rather than waiting for government to redistribute those funds,” Ms. Smith said at a news conference on Tuesday.
Alberta has had an industrial carbon price in place since 2007. Essentially, the large industrial sites governed by TIER can comply with the rules by reducing emissions, buy offsets or make payments to the fund. Currently, facilities can invest in projects to reduce emissions in future years to lower their obligations under the system over time. Under the new approach, the investment itself can be used to address up to 90 per cent of TIER obligations over an eight-year period.
An August analysis by S&P Global found that prices in Alberta’s system have decreased significantly from last year, with credit and offset prices on August 4 down more than 55 per cent compared with the fourth quarter of 2024. That’s largely due to a glut of credits, with some traders estimating there three years of banked inventory sit idle in the market.
The market would likely balance out by the end of the decade, “provided aggressive regulatory changes are not made to the program’s structure,” the report said.
The changes to TIER come as the federal and Alberta governments work toward what Ms. Smith has deemed a “grand bargain,” which has paired a new oil pipeline with progress on the oil sands producers’ Pathways Alliance carbon capture project to reduce emissions in the oil sands.
Ms. Smith said she mentioned the change in direction to Prime Minister Mark Carney during a meeting last week.
“We knew that we needed to find a different way of approaching this issue, so this won’t be a surprise to the federal government,” she said.
The changes stand to weaken the TIER program by opening the door to risks of double counting – that is, companies getting credit first for making the initial technology investment, then again for the emissions reduction once they begin, said Chris Severson-Baker, executive director of the Pembina Institute think tank.
And it will slash demand for TIER credits, he said, further undermining the stability of Alberta’s credit market on which projects Pathways Alliance rely.
The current obstacles to that development are not primarily regulatory, but financial, including Alberta’s lackluster credit market.
Uncertainty over the future of the federal carbon price is another concern for Pathways members. Eliminating it is one of the items being pushed by more than 90 oil and gas executives and industry associations, who on Monday sent a letter to Mr. Carney, urging him to simplify regulations code for demanding regulations are removed altogether that govern the sector.
They also urged Mr. Carney’s Liberal government to repeal the West Coast tanker ban, shorten timelines for project approvals, commit to growing fossil fuel production and eliminate the oil and gas emissions cap. And they want Ottawa to provide Indigenous loan guarantees at scale so industry can create ownership opportunities for communities.Dirty Douche Fuckers! So those Indigenous “partnerships” industry brags about creating from the goodness of their life-destroying polluting hearts are not with industry, they are with Canadians! FFS
Suncor chief executive Rich Kruger, one of the signatories, said in an interview that although Ottawa has made some “positive actions” – such as the formation of the Major Projects Office and referring major energy projects to the body – more policy changes are needed to stimulate investment.
“We need the clarity and predictability across the regulatory environment to make this happen,” Mr. Kruger said.
Predictability is code for we demand all regulations removed, and we demand $billions more freebies, subsidies and gifts too. Carney being the Harper Nazi that he is, will give them everything they demand and whine about, and more, fucking Canadians and escalating harms to life on earth
The government’s goal should be to create a free market “where a multitude of projects can come forward, big and small,” rather than picking and choosing a short list, he said.
“What we fundamentally are saying is we need to unravel a decade of, quite frankly, onerous, complex, largely anti-oil and gas legislation,” he said.
“It’s about protecting and promoting Canada’s competitiveness. And the rest of the world is not standing still.”
Others in the world, with China leading the way, are going full steam ahead with alternate energies. The main reason these tarsands fuckers are chasing money from poor Canadians via Harper Con Carney, is because more and more banks are refusing to finance them and because much of the world does not want out shitty disgusting filthy frac’d and or mined bitumen.
Alberta changing industrial carbon tax program to recognize company investments in emissions reduction, Critics say changes could weaken value of provincial carbon credits by The Canadian Press, Sep 16, 2025, CBC News
The Alberta government is changing its industrial carbon tax program to let companies avoid paying provincial fees for emissions by investing in their own emissions reduction projects instead.
Premier Danielle Smith told reporters Tuesday that the move, likely to come into effect this fall, would support economic growth while ensuring companies work to lower emissions.Will never happen in Alberta, it’s controlled by rich American Repuglican polluters, certainly not while Trump and polluter lover Dildo Danielle is in power
“We’re looking at it a little like a recycling program,” Smith said.
“It will incentivize companies to spend money here in Alberta on emissions reductions investments specific to their projects without burdensome regulation or government choosing winners or losers.”
Smith said the province is also allowing smaller companies that don’t meet the program’s minimum emissions threshold to opt out of the carbon pricing system for 2025.
“This change will help smaller industries to save money and redirect resources into emissions reduction investments or other operational improvements for more cost savings,” she said.
‘Significant win for industry’: environment minister
Alberta has had an industrial carbon pricing system since 2007. The current version, called Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER), has been in place since 2020.
Smith said the upcoming changes to the program stem from consultations her government did with hundreds of oilsands and natural gas officials last spring.
Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz, speaking alongside Smith, said the changes are a “significant win for industry.”
“Instead of sticking to two compliance options, which is by paying a levy or using credits to offset their emissions, enabling companies to reinvest in their own facilities and choose the onsite technologies that work best for them, this helps with the economics of production but also emissions reduction,” said Schulz.
Environmental groups raise concerns
Smith’s announcement drew criticism, with groups like clean energy think tank the Pembina Institute, saying the changes could lead to “double-counting,” while also weakening the value of Alberta’s carbon credits.
“Based on what we’ve heard today, companies will be able to avoid paying a compliance cost at the point of investment in technologies, but then also generate a carbon credit when their emissions start to be reduced,” said Chris Severson-Baker, the institute’s executive director.
Dale Beugin, executive vice-president at the Canadian Climate Institute, agreed. He said in a statement that permitting double-counting would create an oversupply of carbon credits in the market.
“Without improvements, excess credit supply — and the low credit prices that result — will dilute incentives for investment,” Beugin said.
“These changes add up to two things: less long-term certainty for businesses and investors, and more harmful emissions going into our atmosphere, contributing to global emissions fuelling more wildfires, droughts and extreme weather endangering Albertan communities.”
Opposition NDP energy critic Nagwan Al-Guneid said the province didn’t do enough consultation before moving forward with the changes.
She also said Smith and Schulz’s announcement lacked specific details on what kind of projects will qualify for companies to invest in under the new rules.
Schulz said Tuesday that companies will have eight years to make infrastructure investments if they choose to comply through the new method.
She said if those investments aren’t made, a company’s emissions fees will be collected by the government as usual.
Kendall Dilling, the president of the Pathways Alliance, said in a statement that the government’s changes will encourage investment in emissions reduction technology.
Dilling said the alliance, which represents Canada’s largest oilsands companies that are working together on a major potential carbon capture and storage project, appreciates the province’s efforts to support the oilsands industry.
Alberta indefinitely froze its industrial carbon price at $95 per tonne of emissions in May, and neither Smith nor Schulz mentioned Tuesday whether that freeze would be lifted in the near future.
Schulz’s office did not immediately respond to questions about the future of the freeze.
Smith said in May that the move was a critical step in keeping industry competitive throughout Canada’s tariff fight with the United States.
Alberta’s price was set to increase to $110 per tonne next year in line with federal rules, and if Alberta doesn’t lift the freeze by the new year, it will mean the province breaks its compliance agreement.
Ottawa could choose to enforce the $110 price if Alberta doesn’t increase its carbon price come January — a move advocacy group Environmental Defence called on Prime Minister Mark Carney to take Tuesday.
“Alberta needs to pull its weight when it comes to fighting climate change and if it won’t, the federal government must step in,” said the group’s programs director, Keith Brooks, in a statement.
‘A three-legged stool’: Can a grand bargain over pipelines, production and Pathways become a real deal for Alberta? In essence, the industry is saying further changes are needed by Ottawa to complete the stool, and that involves removing or overhauling problematic federal policy impeding investment into the sector by Chris Varcoe, Set 17, 2025, Calgary Herald
There’s plenty of talk these days about the Carney government striking a grand bargain with Alberta and Canada’s oil and gas sector.
But how does that talk become a real deal?
It’s a curious question, as Ottawa wants to see the sprawling Pathways Alliance carbon capture project get built to help decarbonizeNo such thing as decarbonizing fossil fuels, Carney is spewing industry propaganda to force more tarsands harms and pollution on the world. Unforgivable douche fucker the oilsands, while industry and the UCP government want to see pipelines built and petroleum production increased.
An open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, signed by 95 top brass and industry groups, was released Monday evening, welcoming recent federal changes to establish a new Major Projects Office and release an initial list of projects to be fast-tracked for government approval.
However, it’s not enough to become a grand bargain.The law violating greedy lying polluters, most of them AmeriKKKan, want ordinary Canadians to pay for their rape and pillage profiteering, and pay for clean up companies are walking from all over Canada.
“Those steps are necessary, but they’re not fully sufficient. The policy changes that are required to stimulate investment are still there,” said Rich Kruger, CEO of Suncor Energy, one of the members of the Pathways Alliance group of six major oilsands operators.Investors and banks no longer want to invest in the disgusting Alberta tarsands because they know companies have no idea what to do with their massive lakes of toxic waste, and want to empty them directly into the Athabasca watershed, and because they know the world no longer wants Canada’s vile life destroying tarshit, except for greedy Nazi polluting AmeriKKKa
“I’ll go to the Grand Bargain. (It) is Pathways, in terms of achieving significant emissions reductionsagain, impossible. the only way to significantly reduce tarsands deadly pollution is to stop producing it and the fucking douche fucking tarsands companies and their lying lobby groups know it. They want to keep raping the tarsands into $billions into their pockets, so they keep lying, a pipeline in terms of expanded market access — but those two have to be coupled with material upstream growth.
“It’s really a three-legged stool that’s required. So any one of those legs without the other two really doesn’t achieve the objective.”
In essence, the industry is saying further changes are needed by Ottawa to complete the stool, and that involves removing or overhauling problematic federal policy impeding investment into the sector.
The group reiterated its previous call to overhaul the Impact Assessment Act, remove the federal tanker ban off the northern B.C. coast, ditch the industry emissions cap and shorten approval timelines for all projects within months — not years — of application.Deregulate Deregulate Deregulate and poison life on earth dead. They are fucking making billions of dollars in profits, they can stop afford to stop polluting!
“Canada still lacks the clear, competitive and durable fiscal and regulatory policies total deregulation, fucking frac’ing free for all, and $billions more in subsidies, freebies, gifties from starving Canadian families required to achieve the so-called ‘Grand Bargain,’ ” the letter states.
Shortly before the spring federal election, a smaller group of 14 industry CEOs put out a letter to the parties with similar recommendations for policy changes, calling for new pipelines to be approved within six months of filing an application.Bossy shits, aren’t they?
A follow-up letter was issued to Carney after his victory in the April election.
Since then, the federal government has passed Bill C-5, in part to advancemassive deregulation and profit raping for deadly tarsands polluters nation-building projects. It recently set up a Major Projects Office, based in Calgary.and Nazi Carney put a fucking douche industry shilly shit as its head, I bet she’ll approve everything industry demands, instantly.
Last week, the prime minister released an initial list of five significant nation-destroying, and life on earth destroyingbuilding infrastructure developments to be expedited, including LNG Canada Phase 2.
“We’re excited about the new initiatives that the new federal government seems to be talking about, but we still have some pretty important gaps that we think need to be addressed,” said Sue Riddell Rose, CEO of Rubellite Energy, who signed the letter.we want more $$$$$$$$ and total deregulation! we demand it, and we do not say please! and we refuse to clean up when we are done raping Alberta, sans condoms.
“We hope that 95 signatories to a letter does get the attention of the prime minister, that these are still really important issues.”
The Carney government also mentioned six other projects in earlier stages of development that could be referred to the major projects office in the future, including the Pathways Alliance’s foundational carbon capture network in northern Alberta.
The $16.5-billion project would see a new 400-kilometre pipeline constructed to connect more than 20 oilsands facilities to an underground CO2 storage hub near Cold Lake, helping reduce dramatically increase the carbon footprint of the sector.and put Indigenous lives at risk from dying via CO2 leaks, explosions, or, having their brains fried
Work on the carbon capture network has been ongoing for several years, but the oilsands producers have maintained there isn’t sufficient government support to move forward on the massive development.They are demanding Canadians pay for all of it, and take on all the massive liabilities, while AmeriKKKan rich fuckers stuff their pockets
The Alberta government has a program that offers a 12 per cent grant to carbon capture developments, while Ottawa has an investment tax credit that would cover up to half of these projects’ capital expenses.
Increasing incentives beyond what’s already on the table will face opposition from critics of the sector.
“The oil industry isn’t asking for a deal, they’re demanding unconditional surrender,” said Keith Stewart of Greenpeace Canada, noting the sector is responsible for nearly a third of all Canadian emissions.
“It is utter folly in a long-term economic and environmental sense.”
Premier Danielle Smith announced changes Tuesday to the province’s industrial carbon price program, known as the Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) system, that might help move things forward.
Through TIER, heavy industrial emitters such as an oilsands facility or fertilizer plant must meet an emissions intensity benchmark.
If they exceed it, operators can buy carbon offsets to meet their obligations, or pay into the TIER fund at a set carbon price — frozen earlier this year at $95 per tonne of CO2.
Under the new rules, the province will recognize companies investing in emissions reduction technology in their own on-site facilities as a way to comply with their TIER obligations.
In an interview, the premier said oilsands operators — and other companies — will be able to reinvest in decarbonization technology, such as the Pathways Alliance carbon capture network.
She noted companies, combined, pay millions of dollars annually into the fund.
“This now allows them to recycle that $400 (million) to $500 million back into this project. So we think that should be sufficient,” Smith said.
“We have listened to the industry, and we think that this is the reasonable way for us to address that issue.”
With the oilsands industry facing a multibillion-dollar investment in emissions reduction without generating additional revenue, federal policies must change to help create the “Grand Bargain,” the premier said.
This would allow new pipelines to proceed, creating an environment for companies to invest in expanded production.
“The federal government, provincial government and industry are on the same page about progressing Pathways. There’s still work to do in understanding the fiscal framework, who pays for what, how all that works,” added Kruger.
“But it can’t be done in isolation without also working on expanded market access . . . and then all the enabling regulations that will fill that pipeline or pipelines.”
Chris Varcoe is a Calgary Herald columnist.
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