Tag Archives: Business & Economy
Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation launches
EDMONTON - A new first-of-its-kind Crown Corporation aims to help Indigenous groups in Alberta become the owners of resource projects.The Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation (AIOC) will alloc...
Jan 28, 2020 (Photo: Government of Alberta)
City of Red Deer assumes temporary financial management of Westerner Park
The City of Red Deer is assuming temporary financial oversight over Westerner Park, a move both sides say was prompted by financial challenges being faced by the organization. Officials say the move i...
Jan 28, 2020 Mike Olesen, CEO, Westerner Park, addresses members of the Westerner Park Board of Directors, as well as staff and councilors with the City of Red Deer at the Holiday Inn Chalet at Westerner Park Tuesday morning. (rdnewsNOW.com/Sheldon Spackman)
Work continues on Joint Tourism Venture for Red Deer
Tourism Red Deer has begun a review of its current membership model, with the hopes of a new plan to be presented in 2020.Vicky Kurz, interim executive director at Tourism Red Deer, says the review lo...
Jan 26, 2020 (Bower Ponds Recreation)
Province may extend deadline for report on growing high-tech sector
EDMONTON - Alberta's economic development minister says she's open to extending the deadline for a looming benchmark panel report on growing the high-tech sector.But Tanya Fir but says she wants to st...
Jan 26, 2020
Alberta municipalities seek power to collect property taxes owed by failed oil & gas companies
The Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA) is calling on the province to change legislation to allow local governments to collect property taxes from oil and gas properties when they fail.AUM...
Jan 25, 2020 AUMA president Barry Morishita (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Alberta landowners urge farmers to cut power to wells with unpaid debts
A group of Alberta landowners is asking farmers and ranchers to fight back against unpaid debts and unreclaimed oil and gas wells by closing valves and cutting power to energy company sites. "The...
Jan 24, 2020
Hydraulic fracturing likely cause of Red Deer area earthquakes: Report
Preliminary findings into the cause of a pair of earthquakes near Red Deer over the past two years have identified hydraulic fracturing as the likely cause. According to an open file report published ...
Jan 23, 2020
First businesses set to open at Junction 42
The first two businesses are set to open at the Junction 42 rest area near Penhold. Burger King and Petro-Canada will officially open on Monday, Jan. 27, according to Red Deer County.Officials say the...
Jan 22, 2020 Petro-Canada and Burger King are set to open at Junction 42 on Monday. (rdnewsNOW/Dan Hermanutz)
Former Alberta MLA goes on tax strike over unpaid oilpatch property levies
A former member of the Alberta legislature says he won't pay his provincial taxes until oilpatch players pay theirs.David Swann, who once led the Alberta Liberals, says his tax strike is in response t...
Jan 22, 2020
Clearwater County hit by outstanding oil and gas property taxes
A recent story from The Canadian Press detailed how the amount of unpaid property taxes owed by oil and gas companies to Alberta's rural municipalities mas more than doubled over the past year.Clearwa...
Jan 21, 2020