Here’s your weekly news recap. Have a great weekend! -Your United Conservative Team
Premier Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled the Northern Shield Energy Corridor this week, a proposed 3,300-kilometre pipeline that would carry up to 800,000 barrels of Alberta oil per day to domestic refineries and new markets. The project would run entirely within Canada using Canadian steel, strengthening our energy security, reducing reliance on foreign markets, and creating jobs from one end of the country to the other. Read more.
The proposed Northern Shield Energy Corridor would travel from Hardisty, Alberta through Regina and Winnipeg to Sarnia, Ontario, staying entirely within Canadian borders and connecting Alberta oil directly to Ontario’s refining belt for the first time. The route also opens the door to a possible extension to the Port of Churchill in Manitoba, and future connections to eastern Canada, creating new export pathways and giving Canada true energy independence. Read more.
Meta announced it will build its first Canadian data centre in an industrial area of Sturgeon County, a record $13 billion investment and one of the largest private-sector investments in Canadian history, delivered by our government’s years of work courting the world’s biggest tech companies to Alberta. The 1-gigawatt facility will create over 3,000 construction jobs and 300 permanent positions, generate $250 million a year for Albertans, cut transmission costs on power bills by up to 6%, and use less water than a golf course. Read more.
Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley says Premier Smith just delivered one of the best weeks in Alberta’s recent history, landing the $13 billion Meta data centre, filing the West Coast Oil Pipeline proposal with Ottawa, and unveiling the Northern Shield Energy Corridor to Ontario, all in the span of a few days. As Lilley puts it, Alberta is winning again, and when Alberta wins, so does Canada. Read more.
The Hub’s Alberta Bureau Chief Falice Chin says this week may have been the biggest of Premier Smith ‘s premiership, with two major pipeline proposals, the $4.6 billion Greenlight power plant, and Meta’s $13 billion data centre announcement all landing in the span of a few days. Chin notes that the Premier has been presenting a bold national economic vision of her own, and leaders from coast to coast are now speaking her language on pipelines, market diversification, and Canadian sovereignty. Read more.
Premier Smith sat down with Ryan Jespersen on Real Talk this week to discuss the biggest Stampede in recent memory, covering the West Coast and Northern Shield pipeline proposals, the $13 billion Meta investment, and what it all means for Alberta’s future. Watch here.
Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides announced the acceleration of 41 school projects across Alberta under the Schools Now program, including 16 in Calgary and 11 in Edmonton, cutting more than nine months off their timelines and creating or modernizing more than 39,000 student spaces. Read more.
Calgary Herald columnist Rick Bell sat down with Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen this week, who made clear our government is not backing down on photo radar restrictions. Photo radar will stay limited to school zones, playground zones, and construction zones, with rare exceptions only where engineering solutions cannot address safety concerns first. As Minister Dreeshen put it, the photo radar cash cow is not coming back. Read more.
Premier Smith has been out at the doors regularly this summer with our volunteer teams, listening to Albertans and sharing the work our government is getting done. Check out this video from our recent Super Canvass in Calgary-Acadia where she talks about some of the big wins for Alberta and hears directly from the people we serve. Watch here.
The Logic is reporting that Alberta is saving taxpayers billions by using in-house AI tools to modernize government technology systems, cutting what would have been a $2 billion job down to five per cent of that cost and completing it in four years instead of generations. Technology Minister Nate Glubish has open sourced the entire stack so other Canadian governments can do the same, positioning Alberta as the model for smart, efficient public sector innovation. Read more.
Premier Smith and Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally unveiled the official Alberta Whisky logo in Calgary this week, the next step in growing the province’s spirits industry and raising the profile of made-in-Alberta products at home and abroad. To carry the Alberta Whisky label, a spirit must use Alberta water, source at least two-thirds of its grain from Alberta crops, and be mashed, fermented, aged and bottled right here in the province. Read more.
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