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Regulators borrow military technology to detect air pollution (more…)

Alberta’s earth sciences brain trust keeps no secrets (more…)

Even government computers are strained by oilfield waste (more…)

Watchdog agencies get more demanding, then more efficient (more…)

A fragile truce blooms as industry tempers generations of mistrust (more…)

An appeal court praises the ERCB for doing good work, but there is no end in sight to conflicts over hazardous drilling

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The return of the company town

Alberta’s the last best West, right? Where everyone stands alone. And no one needs a handout. So a company town is unnecessary. Oil patch historian David Finch scrolls back in time to put this theory to the test. (more…)