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The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) is a quasi-judicial, independent agency regulating the development of energy resources in Alberta. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, the AER's mandate under the Responsible Energy Development Act (REDA) is "to provide for the efficient, safe, orderly and environmentally responsible development of energy resources and mineral resources in Alberta.” [1]
Alberta Energy Regulator "regulates approximately - 181,000 active wells, 27,800 oil facilities and 20,000 gas facilities, and 405,000 kilometres (km) of pipelines." AER also "considers some 36 800 applications for energy development every year." [4] In December 2012, the Responsible Energy Development Act [8] passed in the Alberta Legislature.
In Alberta, the sole regulator of the province's energy development—from a project's first application, licensing and production, through to its decommissioning, closure, and reclamation—is the 100% industry-funded corporation, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER). The AER, which replaced the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) in 2013 ...
There were few regulations in the early years of the petroleum industry. In Turner Valley, Alberta for example, where the first significant field of petroleum was found in 1914, it was common to extract a small amount of petroleum liquids by flaring off about 90% of the natural gas. According to a 2001 report that amount of gas that would have ...
Fracking in Canada was first used in Alberta in 1953 to extract hydrocarbons from the giant Pembina oil field, the biggest conventional oil field in Alberta, which would have produced very little oil without fracturing. Since then, over 170,000 oil and gas wells have been fractured in Western Canada.
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This is a list of electrical generating stations in Alberta, Canada. In 2023 Alberta produced 74% of its electricity through natural gas . [ 1 ] Alberta has a deregulated electricity market [ 2 ] which allows a large number of private companies to participate in electricity production, particularly in the cases of cogeneration and renewable energy.
By the end of December, 2021, TransAlta had completed full conversion from thermal coal to natural gas at its Keephills Unit 3 facility, which is located near Keephills, Alberta. [47] TransAlta retired Sundance Power Station Unit 1 in 2017, 2 in 2018, and 3 in 2020, 5 in 2021. Sundance 6 was converted to natural gas in 2021.