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Live now: Xinka leaders are visiting British Columbia from Guatemala this week to say: The Xinka People do not consent to the Escobal Silver mine. The UBCIC is calling on the Canadian government & Vancouver-based Pan American Silver to respect the Xinka People’s decision 1/2🧵

New Post: The Information Commissioner’s Report on the Government of Alberta’s War on the Public’s Right to Access Information ablawg.ca/?p=14544&previ…

Alberta's electricity sector can be fixed if UCP want to fix it Interview with Jason Wang, Pembina Institute about new report, Down But Not Out. Reviews how Danielle Smith's policies have chilled investment in the provincial wind, solar industry youtu.be/1Yrdelbr0LA

That's right! The government withheld every single record that could inform Albertans how it came to be that taxpayer dollars and infrastructure are funding religious products that already exist on the free market. Every email. Every briefing note. All of it. /4

Our biennial Dirty Dozen report is out today - spotlighting 12 cases that show the risks and shortcomings of B.C.’s mining regulatory regime. Given the push to fast-track projects, this year we dug into the impacts of cutting corners. Full report: reformbcmining.ca/reports/

New Post: “Get the province of Alberta in line”: Treaty Promises, Provincial Power, and the Role of Indigenous Nations in Discussions on Alberta Secession ablawg.ca/2025/05/30/get…

A bit of history: Canada's first (1994) national communication to the UN on climate change discusses industry-gov't collaboration to deploy carbon capture. And, from our second (1997), we talk about keeping oil and gas GHGs to 76Mt by 2020 (actual was 204 Mt).

"Canada’s weak access to information laws are so antiquated it can take two to five years to get a reply to a request for certain facts." - Robert Fife , Globe & Mail's Ottawa buro chief, and Michener-Baxter Award winner. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… #cdnfoi #cdnpoli

Newly launched Access to Information review is flawed, transparency advocates say richmond-news.com/national-news/… via Richmond News

A meeting in rural Alberta reveals a knot of tension in the global oil industry: who bears its burden? It's a divide between economic promises and the struggles of small communities thenarwhal.ca/alberta-big-oi…

A lot of shoddy reporting skips relevant history, so this CBC piece adding a short version of US-Iran history is very welcome. (although it still skips US support for Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war.) cbc.ca/news/world/ira…

New Post: How Canada’s Federal and Provincial Governments Collaborate Against the Public Right to Access Environmental Information ablawg.ca/2025/07/10/how…

This piece is evidence of just how bad landowner/public safety issues have to become before ⁦Alberta Energy Regulator⁩ will take action against bad actor oil & gas companies. #AERReform Troubled Alberta oil and gas company faces regulatory ultimatum | CBC News cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

Cartoonish behaviour from the UCP.