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Stories With Energy

Regulating energy development in Alberta is multifaceted and complex. We are passionate about telling the stories of how our work is done, how far we’ve come, and where we’re going in the future to ensure responsible resource development across the province. This is a selection of a few of these stories – with more to come. 

Recent carbon capture and storage applications have sparked an interest in how the AER regulates CCS
Good 2 Know
Early explorer and geologist George Dawson gave Canada insight into its geology and resources
George Mercer Dawson is as unlikely an explorer as one might find in Canadian history. As a child, he contracted Pott’s Disease, a form of tuberculosis that infects the spine…
Good 2 Know
AER can investigate if companies fail to honour registered private surface agreements
Before they can turn a drill bit or drive a shovel into the ground, oil and gas companies need permission to use private land. This often means signing a private surface…
Technology
A tour through the oil sands reveals that Alberta’s black core is mining gold
As of 2019, nine oil sands mines are nestled in the Athabasca region’s northern woodland, where companies dig oil sands from the earth to refine into marketable bitumen. It’s…
Good 2 Know
Alberta may be a producer of rare earth elements one day
Alberta's only known REE deposit was found northwest of Fort McMurray in the Birch Mountain area, discovered in the 1990s by a company pursuing other minerals. But based…
Community
New program allows Piikani Nation to carry out community-based environmental monitoring
The Alberta Energy Regulator has partnered with Piikani Nation and the University of Lethbridge to create the Braiding Environmental Knowledge program, which aims to…