Simon Dyer

We were honoured and inspired to hear Canada’s Minister of Finance and National Revenue, François-Philippe Champagne, address our annual #unGALA in Toronto last week.

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Real benefits for Alberta ranchers and farmers to make money from renewables on their land - unless you happen to live in an area where the Alberta Government took away your property rights and banned it, I suppose.

Didn't have the Alberta government trying to legalize canned fenced hunts as "red tape reduction" in Bill 10 on my bingo card. This will be very controversial. www.assembly.ab.ca/assembly-bus...

Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy: another exercise in buck-passing | Pembina Institute For all the economic benefits that Alberta’s storied history of oil and gas development has produced, there are staggering economic and environmental liabilities that now threaten the land, the people...

Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy: another exercise in buck-passing www.pembina.org//blog/albert...

Alberta’s Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners | The Tyee Two firms that invested far less are getting $238 million. Taxpayers face more such hits.

Amazing story that Alberta taxpayers are paying up to 10x the compensation necessary to coal companies as the Alberta Government extricates itself from the mess it created by selling coal leases in previously protected Eastern Slopes thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Did you know Alberta ranchers and farmers can get annual payments of $96,000 to $192,000 per quarter section (160 acres) by choosing to host solar energy projects on portions of their land?

Danielle Smith’s pipeline still doesn’t have a business case The biggest obstacle standing in the way of another pipeline to the West Coast isn't the tanker ban or federal climate policies. It's oil prices and the nature of the businesses that rely on them for ...

Danielle Smith’s pipeline still doesn’t have a business case www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/o...

90 minutes at Edmonton Papastew starting at 3 o'clock!

90 minutes in Edmonton Papastew at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Not sure what new steps they've included in process, but slowest voting experience I've ever had. I feel sorry for the after work crowd.

A strange start for “climate competitiveness” The federal government’s full-throated endorsement of LNG Canada Phase 2 is bad news for anyone who cares about Canada’s carbon emissions — or Canadians’ tax dollars.

A strange start for “climate competitiveness” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/07/o...

Lesueur Ridge in the Ghost Public Land Use Zone is a beautiful little September hike

NEW: Our early estimate of Canada’s national emissions is out and shows progress stalled in 2024.

The country’s 2030 targets are now out of reach, emphasizing the need for a coordinated policy reset with the federal and provincial governments. ⬇️
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Alberta’s move to undermine industrial carbon pricing challenges integrity of ‘grand bargain’ | Pembina Institute CALGARY — CHRIS SEVERSON-BAKER, executive director of the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the Government of Alberta’s announced changes to the Technology Innovation and ...

Alberta’s move to undermine TIER industrial carbon pricing challenges integrity of ‘grand bargain’ www.pembina.org//media-relea...

Where should we build electric truck chargers first?🔌

Our new report maps priority zones in the GTHA using truck traffic data, helping identify where to build charging infrastructure for #ElectricFreight.

The framework can be applied in CA cities. 1/2

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#Alberta paid $30M+ in land rents for delinquent oil & gas companies in 2024, according to media reports this week.

It’s just one of the financial, health and safety risks posed by the 500K+ unused wells across Canada.

More in our new report 👇 1/2

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Good news out of Alberta - the final legal establishment of the expanded Gipsy-Gordon Wildland Provincial Park covering more than 186,000 hectares of boreal forest. First announced in 2012 as part of the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?...

Live 24/7 CO₂ emissions of electricity consumption Electricity Maps is a live 24/7 visualization of where your electricity comes from and how much CO2 was emitted to produce it.

Saskatchewan actually already appears to have a more GHG intensive electricity mix than China. We are falling further behind. app.electricitymaps.com/map/all/mont...

Quoted passage from Minister Jeremy Harrison's letter to SaskPower staff: "Work will begin this year to restore Boundary Dam 4 to service and be re-certified. Further investments will be made in long-lead items as a part of the life extension project. In the years to come, all coal units at Boundary Dam, Poplar River and Shand will receive the work necessary to extend the life of those units."

Minister Jeremy Harrison has just directed SaskPower to rebuild its coal-fired power plants and continue running them past 2030. The letter directs SaskPower to begin by putting Boundary Dam unit 4 back in service. This decision is problematic for many, many reasons and I list some of them below:

I'm surprised this line from the Premier didn't get more attention "Banning industries is just not something we are going to do" when the government has *LITERALLY* banned wind development in the same area where Albertans have repeatedly said they don't want coal

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Alberta continues its record of punitive rules for renewables while treating oil and gas extremely permissively. Strict 30% up front security for renewables while conventional oil and gas has no clear mandatory security and oilsands mines are less than 3% security. Sounds fair, right?

The plan fails to uphold the province’s legal requirement for caribou conservation and recovery, and significant revision is needed to ensure the protection of the species.

Respond to the Upper Smoky Sub-regional Plan public survey 👇

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Comparison of requirements for renewable energy compared to oil and gas in Alberta

Evergreen comparison table of how Alberta unfairly treats management of renewables compared to oil and gas

Latest Pembina report - Down But Not Out - highlights the impact unfair changes to renewable energy rules have had on renewable energy investment in Alberta

New coalition files challenge against the Alberta Energy Regulator to ensure polluters pay for orphan well cleanup | Coalition For Responsible Energy Despite Sequoia bankruptcy, Alberta Energy Regulator gives the oil and gas industry a staggering 83% discount on its 2025 orphan cleanup fee

New coalition files challenge against the Alberta Energy Regulator to ensure polluters pay for orphan well cleanup - "Despite Sequoia bankruptcy, Alberta Energy Regulator gives the oil and gas industry a staggering 83% discount on its 2025 orphan cleanup fee" c4re.ca/new-coalitio... #ABLeg #ABPoli

Congratulations Stephen! Look forward to checking this out. Hope Lizzie Lake and the Gates of Shangri-La made the cut.

This is a great opportunity for a senior leader with a track record of creating change in the energy space leading teams working on electricity, oil and gas, renewables in remote communities and carbon dioxide removal.

Beverly Yee, Marlo Raynolds join Pembina Institute board of directors | Pembina Institute CALGARY — Two veterans of Canada’s energy and environmental landscape have joined the Pembina Institute’s board of directors.

Beverly Yee, Marlo Raynolds join Pembina Institute board of directors www.pembina.org//media-relea...

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

Very rigorous report shows how Alberta’s draft Upper Smoky plan will extirpate caribou.

Excellent annual report card from CPAWS on conservation progress across Canada. Sad to see my home province of Alberta stalling and failing to protect nature