Pipelines, energy and natural resources

[Kirkhill]

Prince Rupert
Ridley
Lax Kw'alaams
Metlakatla
Stewart/Hyder
Nisga'a - Ksi Lisims
Tsimshian
Coal
LNG
LPG
Propane
Butane
WCS
Tanker Ban
CGL
PRGT
Oil Sands Alliance

Some sort of grand bargain in the offing?

First Nation withdraws support for B.C. energy export project

The Metlakatla First Nation, co-owner of coal exporter Trigon, opposes the Prince Rupert Port Authority’s move to block its diversification plans

www.theglobeandmail.com

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/news/two-court-challenges-ksi-lisims-lng-project-bc

 

[Brad Sallows]

I just love all the open grifting.

 

[Kirkhill]

I just love all the open grifting.

Grifting is. I enjoy the fact that it is in the open.
Also enjoying the fact that the development fight is now FN on FN.
We now have the FN versions of the Anglo-French debates.
Reconciliation.

 

[Kirkhill]

Meanwhile

Q&A: Why Alberta’s data centre strategy is drawing the attention of tech giants like Meta | BetaKit

Punchcard Systems’ Sam Jenkins on how Alberta is meeting the moment, and what it stands to gain or lose.

betakit.com

Alberta has been laying the groundwork to become a data centre hub for at least the last two years. The provincial government unveiled its Artificial Intelligence Data Centres Strategy in 2024, which was a roadmap for attracting development and investment.

In the years since, the province has passed legislation improving data centre access to the energy grid and formalized tax incentives to draw business. The provincial minister of technology and innovation, Nate Glubish, has spoken about the desire to bring $100 billion in private data centre investment to the province.

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100 Billion in private sector investment to burn natural gas and create CO2 which will be taxed at $170 per tonne and/or "sold" to Carbon Capture and Storage systems like Pathways.

Pathways is now known as Oil Sands Alliance and its remit has expanded beyond CCS to include building a pipeline to the West Coast (they will need to build a terminal, and probably pay for harbour management an environmental protection) and to increasing oil sands production by one million barrels a day.

And the quoted estimate is 100 Billion.

Group behind Pathways carbon-capture project changes name to Oil Sands Alliance

President Kendall Dilling says work has always had a much broader focus

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Actually, Ihave that 2GW of waste heat wrong. It would be more like 2GW of high quality (high temperature) waste heat from the combustion process and another GW ow low grade waste heat from all the servers after they have consumed the electricity.

And, wrt, that 170 CAD/tonne CO2 tax

1 GJ of Natural Gas produces 0.05 tonnes of CO2.
1GW of electricity requires 3 GW of Natural Gas or 3 GJ/sec
3GJ/sec x 0.05 tonnes CO2 per GJ = 0.15 tonnes CO2 per second
0.15 tonnes CO2 per second x 170 CAD per tonne of CO2 = 25 CAD/sec

1500 CAD/min
90,000 CAD/hr
2,200,000 CAD/day
15,000,000 CAD/wk
800,000,000 CAD/yr

In government revenues.


....

In addition

1000 permanent jobs
Average wage in Alberta of 60,000 CAD/yr
60,000,000 more into the economy


...

If all the projects with their 20 GW of electricity are realized then 20,000 jobs, 1.2 BCAD in wages, 16 BCAD in CO2 taxes.

And 40 GW of high grade waste heat or enough to heat 10,000,000 homes for a year.

"As of late 2025, there are over 37 data centre projects in the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) connection queue requesting over 19 gigawatts of power, with other reports citing at least 15 major proposals. Major projects include a $750 million facility near Calgary and a massive AI project near Grande Prairie."

 

[Czech_pivo]

Meanwhile

Q&A: Why Alberta’s data centre strategy is drawing the attention of tech giants like Meta | BetaKit

Punchcard Systems’ Sam Jenkins on how Alberta is meeting the moment, and what it stands to gain or lose.

betakit.com

Alberta has been laying the groundwork to become a data centre hub for at least the last two years. The provincial government unveiled its Artificial Intelligence Data Centres Strategy in 2024, which was a roadmap for attracting development and investment.

In the years since, the province has passed legislation improving data centre access to the energy grid and formalized tax incentives to draw business. The provincial minister of technology and innovation, Nate Glubish, has spoken about the desire to bring $100 billion in private data centre investment to the province.

----

100 Billion in private sector investment to burn natural gas and create CO2 which will be taxed at $170 per tonne and/or "sold" to Carbon Capture and Storage systems like Pathways.

Pathways is now known as Oil Sands Alliance and its remit has expanded beyond CCS to include building a pipeline to the West Coast (they will need to build a terminal, and probably pay for harbour management an environmental protection) and to increasing oil sands production by one million barrels a day.

And the quoted estimate is 100 Billion.

Group behind Pathways carbon-capture project changes name to Oil Sands Alliance

President Kendall Dilling says work has always had a much broader focus

www.theglobeandmail.com

....



"As of late 2025, there are over 37 data centre projects in the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) connection queue requesting over 19 gigawatts of power, with other reports citing at least 15 major proposals. Major projects include a $750 million facility near Calgary and a massive AI project near Grande Prairie."

Will be interesting to see if they are decide to go with 'air cooled' or 'water cooled' systems. I would think that they might be hard pressed to go with the water cooled approach due to the ongoing draught issues occurring overall in the prairies.

 

[Kirkhill]

Will be interesting to see if they are decide to go with 'air cooled' or 'water cooled' systems. I would think that they might be hard pressed to go with the water cooled approach due to the ongoing draught issues occurring overall in the prairies.

They likely are going air cooled. The Olds meeting addressed the issue and the company stipulated that it was using closed systems and would only be filling the sytem once.

Additionally, one of the Alberta Advantages beibg touted is that Alberta's average temperature is a lot lower than places like Ohio or Calcutta.

Air cooling is viable up here.

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Further to the water issue....here in Lethbridge we have had a warm dry winter so far, although it is -26 today, and the lack of snow has got the farmers worried. But. They rely on irrigation and the irrigation districts are predicting overflowing reservoirs and lakes and high flow rates. It seems that the reason for the dry winter, here in the rain shadow of the Rockies, is that all that precipitation we are not getting is falling in the Mountains.

As God intended.

 

[Kirkhill]

Why make hydrogen when you can sell Natural Gas?

Plans to export green hydrogen from Canada to Europe dealt major blow as province cancels land reservations for three gigawatt-scale projects

The government of Newfoundland and Labrador will continue to reserve crown land for EVREC’s gigawatt-scale H2 and ammonia project

www.hydrogeninsight.com

London-based Crown LNG pitches export project for Newfoundland and Labrador

Company is seeking to tap into offshore natural gas from the Jeanne d’Arc Basin and aiming to start LNG exports to Europe in 2030

www.theglobeandmail.com

Apparently there is a business case now.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Also enjoying the fact that the development fight is now FN on FN.

We now have the FN versions of the Anglo

They learned from the best, after all, right?

 

[Kirkhill]

They learned from the best, after all, right?

I don't think the Tsimshian, Cree or Inuit needed any lessons on what it takes to get a deal.

 

[The Bread Guy]

I don't think the Tsimshian, Cree or Inuit needed any lessons on what it takes to get a deal.

True enough, but they’ve certainly had useful role models re: one side out-lawyering the other.