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One of Alberta’s biggest and most venerable companies is declaring a $408-million hit to the value of its wind and solar projects in the province, and is largely blaming the Smith government’s electricity system reforms for being “detrimental” to investment in renewable energy.

ATCO Ltd.’s power subsidiary Canadian Utilities reported the devaluation of its roughly $1 billion in Alberta renewable energy assets in a .

It says that policy changes to the transmission network have forced the company to heavily curtail the output of its major wind turbine project in southeast Alberta — and adds that a looming overhaul of transmission rules stands to harm that and other renewable projects even more.

The company may pursue “legal recourse” if negotiations and lobbying efforts fail to modify the government’s system reforms, the Feb. 26 company management discussion report states.

“The company believes the changes in policy, and resulting uncertainty for large infrastructure investment, is detrimental to the government of Albertaʼs stated objectives to promote investment in the province of Alberta,” the document states.

The Smith government has prided itself on creating an investor-friendly climate in Alberta, and slashing regulation that it derides as “”

But it has faced repeated criticism from the renewable sector for doing the opposite: applying regulations that have of new wind and solar installations. Renewable energy advocates say they’re a low-cost, low-carbon power source, but Premier Danielle Smith and her government have criticized them as intermittent and less reliable than other generation types like natural gas.

Canadian Utilities’ report signals that the province’s electricity policies are not only impairing the renewable sector’s potential growth, but also projects already built in Alberta.

“Almost everywhere else, you build as much wind and solar as you possibly can, because they're low cost, and then you design the system around them,” said Tim Weis of the Pembina Institute, an Alberta-based environmental think tank.

“And frankly, we're kind of doing the opposite.”

Which way the wind blows

On Oct. 5, 2022, ATCO announced a $730-million acquisition of renewable projects in Ontario and Alberta, including the 202-megawatt Forty Mile wind farm in southeast Alberta. It was a major foray by a massive Alberta conglomerate into the province’s then-burgeoning wind and solar power market; ATCO said it cemented the company’s place “at the forefront of the energy transition.”

One day later, Danielle Smith was crowned United Conservative Party leader and incoming premier.

to the merits of renewable power, her government has imposed a range of to renewable project development, including a seven-month moratorium on new approvals in 2023. Reforms to the broader electrical system, made in the name of have been widely criticized by companies and groups involved in wind and solar.

Canadian Utilities says one key harmful change to its existing power generators is the end of a longstanding policy called “zero congestion.” It guaranteed that the province would build new transmission lines to accommodate new private-sector electricity developments, but the government has shifted from that policy in favour of one that accepts some system congestion.

The lack of new power transmission lines from the wind- and solar-heavy southeast part of Alberta has forced the system regulators to curtail some companies’ generation.

The ATCO company’s Forty Mile project has been one of the hardest hit. Twenty-five per cent of its total potential power generation was curtailed last year, by the provincial Market Surveillance Administrator.

Additional forthcoming regulations will extend this issue, the company says, meaning its major wind farm “remains exposed to sustained curtailment and uncertain timelines for relief, which will continue to depress cash flows until definitive transmission solutions are implemented.”

Canadian Utilities is warning that other recent reforms are also financially harmful. Among them, pricing changes as part of Alberta’s energy market restructuring will further depress potential revenues for the company’s existing wind and solar developments, the company’s report stated.

All told, provincially legislated changes “have materially and retroactively altered the economic conditions under which these renewable assets were developed and financed,” the ATCO company said in the document.

Canadian Utilities is a publicly traded company that is majority controlled by ATCO, the 79-year-old Calgary-based giant with business in construction, logistics, natural gas distribution and more.

Canadian Utilities did not break down the value impairment to the Forty Mile wind project or three solar farms within its ATCO EnPower division, but $54 million of the total $408-million writedown is due to recent decisions not to proceed with some development projects.

In an email, EnPower chief operating officer Mark Brown, said no legal challenges have been filed.

“Our strong preference is to continue to work collaboratively with the government of Alberta and the AESO [the Alberta Electric System Operator] on a fair and durable framework that serves customers, investors, and generators — as we have done throughout Alberta’s market redesign process,” he told CBC News.

Affordability and Utilities Minister Nathan Neudorf was not made available for an interview to respond to ATCO’s concerns. Instead, a minister’s spokesperson emailed a statement which stressed that Alberta’s new transmission regulations have not been finalized.

“The policy changes that ATCO EnPower is referring to are not in effect and still in the draft stage,” Ashli Barrett stated. “Further, the policy direction is based on the feedback and input gathered through hundreds of hours of extensive engagement with industry.”

She added that Neudorf’s office is not aware of any legal challenges filed regarding provincial renewable or transmission reforms.

The $408-million writedown may represent a fraction of the total value in all of ATCO Group’s varied divisions, but it amounts to close to one-fifth of the previously reported assets in ATCO EnPower, according to a .

“Basically what they've said in their investor report is what the renewable energy industry has been saying for the past few years,” said Weis, Pembina’s senior director of industrial decarbonization.

“I think we should expect more companies to be making decisions [like this] now.”

Earlier this week, Pembina issued a report on the beleaguered state of Alberta’s wind and solar sector. It noted a 93 per cent drop in newly installed wind, solar and storage capacity between 2022 and 2025.

Weis said that recent federal-provincial discussions about increased transmission interties between Alberta and British Columbia could help reduce the persistent congestion that’s plaguing wind and solar generators.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jason Markusoff analyzes what's happening — and what isn't happening, but probably should be — in Calgary, Alberta and sometimes farther afield. He's written in Alberta for more than two decades, previously reporting for Maclean's magazine, Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal. He appears regularly on Power and Politics' Power Panel and various other CBC current affairs shows. Reach him at jason.markusoff@cbc.ca

CALGARY — The Alberta government has ordered a sweeping third-party investigation into Calgary’s ongoing water main problems that have yet again forced residents to ration their use.

CALGARY — The Alberta government has ordered a sweeping third-party investigation into Calgary’s ongoing water main problems that have yet again forced residents to ration their use.

Municipal Affairs Minister Dan Williams says the probe is not political even though it is expected to examine the actions and decisions of former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi.

Nenshi is now leader of the Opposition NDP and the main opponent of Premier Danielle Smith’s government, with an election slated for next year.

And Smith has already placed some of the blame for the water crisis on council actions when Nenshi was mayor.

Williams told a news conference Friday that the government has the authority and responsibility to investigate when core services fail in Alberta’s largest city, although he recognized the authority was "rarely used" and not routine.

"I'm not going to use this as a bludgeon," he said.

He added the inquiry is not about assigning blame or pointing fingers but to learn about the system, the decisions made and to understand accountability and understand next steps.

The investigation will be headed by David Goldie, a former chair of Alberta’s energy regulator.

Goldie will have the power to compel documents and witnesses, similar to a public judicial inquiry, and is expected to report back on his findings by the fall.

Total cost is estimated at $1.2 million.

Williams was asked by reporters about government priorities and why this investigation has more authority to compel evidence than one that investigated questionable government dealing on multimillion-dollar health service contracts. The RCMP is running its own investigation on that front.

Williams, in response, repeatedly referred to his ministry’s mandate and to how critical water services are for public health.

"When it comes to municipal affairs, Calgarians would agree that this is a crisis,” he said. "This is not an odd prioritization (by the government). I think the question is odd.”

The move comes as Calgary residents and those in surrounding communities have been asked once again to reduce water use due to the ailing Bearspaw South Feeder Main.

The main supplies 60 per cent of the treated water and has ruptured twice in the last two years, forcing shutdowns for repairs.

The current round of repairs is expected to last a month as crews work on the existing pipe. At the same time, work is being done to replace parts of the ailing line, with that work expected to be done by year’s end.

The most recent break happened in December, sending a torrent of water that stranded cars and buckled the roadbed of a city thoroughfare. Residents are currently being asked to take shorter showers, reduce toilet flushes and cut back on laundry and dishwasher loads.

The line also failed in the summer of 2024.

On Friday, Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas issued a statement saying he supports the province’s inspection "of our water system."

"We’ll cooperate fully while continuing major investments to strengthen the Calgary region's infrastructure."

Kathleen Ganley, NDP whip, said in a statement Friday's announcement represented a waste of taxpayer dollars that will produce no real results for Calgarians who want to turn their water back on.

“This UCP government refused to use its power to compel documents or testimony on an actual health-care scandal that never ends," Ganley said.

The provincially ordered review comes after the city already commissioned a report.

An independent panel released its review into the 2024 rupture in early January, attributing the cause and the overall fragility of the system to decades of underinvestment.

In its report, the panel traced the issue back to another water main rupture in 2004, which it said should have raised alarms about the health of other city water pipes.

It said a number of projects to inspect water pipes or carry out maintenance were deferred over the years in favour of other priorities. The panel wrote that no one city council or staff member was to blame, as it said it believed that nobody fully knew the gravity of the situation.

Smith’s government, however, has pushed for a fuller accounting.

In January, Williams demanded thousands of documents from the city dating back decades -- even from city council meetings not open to the public.

Williams said Friday nothing was missing from those documents, or the independent review, but he wanted "context."

Nenshi was mayor from 2010 to 2021, and Smith has previously sought to tie the water woes to him.

"The seeds of the problem today, make no mistake, began under previous administrations," the premier told reporters earlier this year. Smith said severe floods caused by heavy rainfall in 2013 should have led the city to do widespread investigations of its water system.

"And you have to ask the question, well, 'Who was the mayor after the floods of 2013 until he decided to retire?' And that was Naheed Nenshi," she said.

At the time, Nenshi called Smith's accusations "total garbage."

Political scientist Lori Williams questioned why the water affair warrants a more rigorous probe than the health-contract imbroglio, and wondered why the province wants to investigate something that has already been independently reviewed by the City of Calgary.

“The province has an opportunity here to be consistent and call an investigation (into the health contract affair) that is truly independent (and) does have the power to call witnesses, subpoena witnesses,” Williams, with Mount Royal University in Calgary, said in an interview.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 13, 2026.

-- With files from Lisa Johnson in Edmonton

Dayne Patterson, The Canadian Press

Canada. The United States. A big sporting event with more than just winning a game on the line.

It’s a tale that fans on both sides have seen play out dozens of times before, but usually when it happens, the playing surface is a sheet of ice.

This time, the two nations will be facing off in the quarterfinal round of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) as Canada looks to advance further than they’ve ever gone in the tournament.

In the heart of Southern Alberta’s baseball community, there will be lots to cheer for — including the man taking the ball for Team Canada to start the game, Michael Soroka.

The Calgary native has appeared in 91 games in Major League Baseball (MLB) over his career, but Friday’s game could be his biggest start yet.

“I’m just really excited for him,” explained Chris Reitsma, Soroka’s former coach with the Webber Academy Wildcats. “Extremely excited for baseball in our country. It means a lot to see these kids do well.”

It’s already been a historic tournament for the Canadian side, which advanced past pool play in the international tournament for the first time following a 7-2 win over Cuba on Wednesday.

A big part of this year’s success has been on the mound — the team’s Earned Run Average of 2.38 is by far their best mark in their sixth time at the WBC.

Once Soroka leaves the mound, Manager Ernie Whitt may opt to give the ball to a reliever affectionately known as “Tugboat,” Matt Wilkinson.

Before being drafted by the MLB’s Cleveland Guardians in 2023, Wilkinson honed his craft just south of Calgary with the Okotoks Dawgs of the Western Canadian Baseball League.

“He was pretty advanced for his age when he came here,” said Lou Pote, Dawgs head coach. “Every time he pitched for the academy he was unbelievable… we’re not surprised here.”

“For our guys in the academy to see those guys performing on the big stage, it gives them something to shoot for.”

A win against Team USA — which is heavily favoured — would not be unprecedented.

Despite a 1-4 record against the Americans at the WBC, their first-ever meeting in the tournament was a 8-6 victory for Canada in 2006.

Reitsma was a part of that 2006 team.

“It’s an honour to be able to play the game… to play it at a high level and play for your country is pretty special,” Reitsma said.

“I hope (young baseball players) are saying ‘I can do that one day.'”

Economist: Oil prices $10 US higher than expected means $20 million more for Alberta government — every day

Inflation fears and rising gas prices may be the most widely felt impacts of the oil price shock that the Iran conflict has triggered. But for the Alberta government, there could be a significant financial upside to this sudden global supply crunch.

The province, which is currently staring down a $4.1-billion deficit for the current fiscal year and just forecast a $9.4-billion shortfall for 2026-2027, is highly sensitive to changes in the price of oil because of how reliant its revenues are on royalties from Alberta oil production.

The budgeting year that ends on March 31 was based on the North American benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude averaging $61.50 US per barrel, while the coming fiscal year that begins in April forecasts $60.50.

The sudden stoppage of all oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of the world’s crude travels, has sent prices skyward — WTI jumped by around eight per cent Monday to $71.35 by the trading day’s end.

Because the next fiscal year hasn’t begun, this sudden price hike might not have any bearing on the forward-looking budget but could brighten the Alberta balance sheet of the fiscal year now concluding.

“I suspect that rather than a $4.1 billion deficit that we were projecting in the budget, it might be somewhat less than that,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at a health care announcement in Lethbridge.

How much less? That will depend on how long prices stay high.

If the benchmark price climbs by $1 US, that roughly means an extra $680 million for provincial coffers.

But that's over the course of a whole year — the impacts of these short-term price spikes might be better expressed in days.

That one-dollar rise works out to about $2 million per day for the Alberta government’s income, according to calculations by University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe. Which means that a price $10 US higher than expected translates into an additional $20 million every day this jolt lasts.

“So if this lasts for the entire month of March, for example, that’s about $600 million [in reduced Alberta deficit] just from these four weeks alone,” Tombe told CBC News.

Should security risks for tankers in the Mideast, along with tighter global supply and high prices, persist into April, it could similarly erode the much larger deficit that Alberta just tabled for 2026-27.

But Alberta’s newly forecast budget deficit is so deep that oil lingering at current prices would still result in a $2 billion to $3 billion shortfall next year, Tombe said.

Finance Minister Nate Horner has said Alberta needs $74 US-per-barrel prices to balance its budget in the coming year.

The conflict-related price jump isn’t making him reconsider his deficit budget and its oil-price forecast, which was based on advice from multiple private-sector analysts.

“We want to have conservative forecasts,” the minister said Monday. “We do want the potential for upside for the province. We don’t want to over-estimate that to make budget day go easier for myself and the government.”

Alberta budgets have often wound up in surplus because the spring budget under-estimated how high oil prices would be that year — and the inverse has previously happened with per-barrel price forecasts that wound up being too rosy.

Long-term disruption to ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz could send prices even higher, and so could damage to oil infrastructure in other Gulf countries. Meanwhile, a shorter conflict in which disruptions are easily reversible could mean the current price spike won't last.

“As the risk dissipates it will quickly become a supply-demand calculation again, and that’s what led us to our forecast in the first place,” Horner said.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jason Markusoff analyzes what's happening — and what isn't happening, but probably should be — in Calgary, Alberta and sometimes farther afield. He's written in Alberta for more than two decades, previously reporting for Maclean's magazine, Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal. He appears regularly on Power and Politics' Power Panel and various other CBC current affairs shows. Reach him at jason.markusoff@cbc.ca