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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.
Environment Canada reported in 2012, in a backgrounder to the new legislation introduced by then-Environment Minister, Peter Kent that coal-fired generating units were "responsible for 77% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity sector in Canada". [122] Alberta's new climate policies introduced in November 2015 also include ...
Representatives from the Alberta provincial government, the AER and Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP), Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), and the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada (EPAC) serve on the OWA's board of directors. [2] Brad Herald is the Chair of the OWA and is also CAPP vice-president. [70]
The first oil well in western Canada was drilled in southern Alberta in 1902, but did not produce for long and served to mislead geologists about the true nature of Alberta's subsurface geology. The Turner Valley oil field was discovered in 1914, and for a time was the biggest oil field in the British Empire , but again it misled geologists ...
Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Limited incorporated by Special Act of Parliament. In 2019, the company changed its name to TC Energy. [15] [better source needed] 1953 Husky Energy incorporated in Canada after splitting off from American counterpart February 23, 1953 Pembina No. 1 is drilled marking the first use of hydraulic fracturing in Alberta. [16]
In 2012 Canada averaged 356 active drilling rigs, coming in second to the United States with 1,919 active drilling rigs. The United States represents just below 60 percent of worldwide activity. [ 8 ] : 21 New Brunswick , Newfoundland , Nova Scotia and Quebec have banned fracking.
The provincial Ministry of Energy—Alberta Energy—oversees mining regulations which includes environmental protection. The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has been the "single regulator of energy development" since 2014. [56] Alberta Energy also "issues and administers coal leases on Crown lands and collects royalties from producing mines." [57]