Danielle Smith’s Carbon Capture Contradictions

The tech is a ‘boondoggle.’ Also, she’s a fan. Though lukewarm. It depends on who’s listening.

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Danielle Smith Rips Off the Mask

Her combative, gaslighting persona was put away for the election campaign. It was back this week.

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Danielle Smith’s power struggle: Why Alberta’s premier is picking a fight over net-zero

Is an Alberta sovereignty act fight in the works, as the province pushes back against Ottawa’s plan for electricity grids? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s latest battle with the federal government is about two kinds of power: electrical and political. On the electricity side of things, Smith is furious with Ottawa’s push to make Alberta’s power grid net-zero by 2035. Politically…

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Opinion | We’ve seen two versions of Danielle Smith. Which one is Canada about to get?

Look out, Canada, here comes a reinvigorated Danielle Smith. Or as Premier Smith put it in her victory speech Monday, “Hopefully the prime minister and his caucus are watching tonight.” Smith’s statement wasn’t just a shot across the Liberal government’s bow but a promise — a threat, really — to immediately start a fight with Ottawa over the proposed introduction of…

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Jason Kenney squares off with Danielle Smith for the soul of Alberta’s United Conservative Party

Premier Jason Kenney has entered the United Conservative Party race to replace him as leader. Not as a candidate — but as a meddler. Kenney didn’t so much dive as belly-flop into the race this week, with an awkward attack on a proposal from perceived frontrunner Danielle Smith. She is championing a controversial “Alberta Sovereignty Act” that she says would allow…

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