#ableg — Public Fediverse posts

Landowners across the province are being encouraged to withhold consent for oil and gas companies to access their properties for new development.

This coincides with the UCP government's major AI data centre push for more gas to run the facilities.

If landowners answer the call to action, already overworked quasi-judicial tribunals could face a rush of companies seeking right-of-entry orders. The companies would be on-the-hook for legal costs and landowners can delay the process by imposing conditions that would have to go through negotiations.

And it's a property rights backlash caused by the regulator's failed cleanup of orphan and abandoned wells that could harm the UCP's chances in an election year.

Read my latest for The Energy Mix! (with photo of cows ❤️ )

https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-landowners-revolt-wont-consent-to-access-over-oil-and-gas-cleanup-concerns/

#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #cdnlaw #polluterpay #fossilFuels #AIDATaCenters #AIdatacentres

The federal government gave permission for Meta's hyperscale data centre in Alberta to proceed because they DIDN'T apply to the Impact Assessment Agency before starting construction and now, it's too late...

I kid you not.

"...substantive landscape alteration, and occurred over an extended period of time. Construction activities have been ongoing since June 2026, and the following activities have been completed or are currently underway: excavation and relocation of gas pipelines and distribution lines, site preparation activities including vegetation clearing, on and off-site road development and completion, perimeter fencing installation, earthworks including topsoil stripping and grading, underground utility construction, and construction of stormwater impoundment facilities."

Those federal data centre principles are a joke. Meta is just doing whatever it wants and being rewarded for it.

https://datacentre.ca/2026/11/11/federal-agency-says-work-on-meta-alberta-data-centre-is-too-far-along-for-designation/

#aidatacentres #environment #ableg #cdnpoli