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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
In the News
Journey Energy Inc. has been ordered to pay a fine for a 2017 pipeline spill
Just before the Canada Day long weekend in 2017, two breakpoints on the Journey pipeline near Winfield, Alberta spilled a mix of crude oil and produced water killing fish,…
Environment
How industry keeps an eye on wildlife
If a bear sits in the woods, and no one is around to see it, did it actually happen? We see it all the time, people doing it all for “the ‘Gram.” Because if a picture isn’t…
Good 2 Know
It wasn’t the Royal Tyrrell Museum, but the regulator’s Energeum used exhibits and displays to tell Alberta’s oil and gas story
Perhaps you remember the little museum the regulator used to run. You know, the Energeum?
Environment
Industry uses compensation lakes to create homes for displaced fish
When we hear the word "compensation," we often think about money. But all Mike Hunka, a biologist at the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), thinks about are walleye,…
Good 2 Know
AER EnerFAQs respond to queries on energy resource development and how it’s regulated
If you don’t work in the industry, steering through the complexities of oil and gas development can be like using a GPS device in another language as you drive through the…