Exploring Theme: "Individual Business Issues"

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 19, 2024 UPDATED NOVEMBER 20, 2024 The Globe and Mail: A deal touted as Canada’s largest equity purchase by an Indigenous partnership may not be completed as planned because of an undisclosed snag at TC Energy Corp. TRP-T -0.04%decrease, which had previously agreed to sell the minority stake in its Alberta gas pipeline network. François Poirier, TC...

APTN News: The Canadian Press – A deal that was billed as Canada’s largest-ever Indigenous equity ownership agreement has hit a snag. TC Energy Corp. said Tuesday the $1-billion agreement, announced in July, that would see it sell a minority stake in its Western Canadian natural gas transmission network to a consortium of Indigenous communities...

NationTalk: PEACE RIVER, AB – In an unprecedented move, an American oil company is attempting to have the entire elected government of a Canadian First Nation imprisoned for practicing their constitutionally guaranteed Treaty Rights. On May 14, Obsidian filed materials with the court asking it to incarcerate the Chief and Council of WCFN for purportedly...

The Globe and Mail: Reuters – A Canadian First Nation on Wednesday said it has told the Alberta Energy Regulator that oil and gas producer Obsidian Energy Ltd. OBE-T +3.43%increase cannot proceed with plans to expand drilling on its territory owing to concerns about earthquakes. The Woodland Cree First Nation in Northern Alberta criticized Obsidian earlier this week for failing...

Civeo also demanded salary cuts years ago, says longtime housekeeping coordinator CBC News: Angela Fiddler doesn’t know how she’ll afford to feed her husband, who’s terminally ill with cancer, after being let go last week — five months after she voted to reject a pay cut. Fiddler is one of around 300 workers at Wapasu Creek Lodge,...

NationTalk – This omnibus bill 22 includes amendments that would make the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) the sole judge of the public interest for all Albertans, allowing the elected government to cut itself out of the decision-making process. This means the AER will be the final decision maker about impacts to Treaty rights and the...

NationTalk – All temporarily suspended reporting and monitoring requirements will come back into effect on July 15, 2020. The Alberta Energy Regulator’s (AER) decision to end its temporary suspensions follows steps taken by the Government of Alberta, including the repeal of Ministerial Order 219/2020 and Ministerial Order 17/2020. All temporarily suspended reporting and monitoring requirements...

Three First Nations in northeast Alberta – Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Fort McKay First Nation and Mikisew Cree First Nation – have jointly filed an appeal related to recent Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) decisions to suspend key aspects of environmental monitoring in the oil sands. The First Nations were not consulted on decisions that clearly...

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers requested that the federal government relax several regulatory and policy activities, including an indefinite suspension of all consultation with industry to develop new environmental policies. At the same time, industry has lobbied the provincial government to resume consultation with Indigenous communities to advance projects despite the closure of our...