Industrial Heartland

• Gibbons may lose town status amid $15.3M in debt

  Gibbons faces potential insolvency after previous town council pushed the community's finances into a $15.3 million hole, but the new council is predicting a balanced budget.

  Money

  Apr 15
  
• Dow pauses work on $11.6B Alberta net-zero petrochemical site due to economic uncertainty

  Dow Chemical has paused work on its $11.6-billion net-zero petrochemical project northeast of Edmonton due to economic and geopolitical volatility.

  Economy

  Apr 24, 2025
  
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• Pembina Pipeline announces stake in Alberta power plant that could supply data centre

  Pembina has entered agreements for a 50 per cent stake in the Greenlight Electricity Ltd. Partnership, which aims to build a power generation facility in the Industrial Heartland.

  Money

  Feb 27, 2025
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• Industry leaders, government optimistic about Alberta’s Industrial Heartland future

  Hundreds of stakeholders gathered at the Edmonton Convention Centre Thursday for this year's sold-out Alberta's Industrial Heartland Association Conference.

  Economy

  Sep 15, 2022
• Shell to partner with renewables firm on solar farm at Scotford refinery near Edmonton

  The solar farm will be dedicated to the Scotford Complex for at least 25 years and is expected to produce enough electricity to cover 20 per cent of the Alberta refinery's needs.

  Environment

  Nov 9, 2021
• Suncor and Atco working together on potential hydrogen project near Edmonton

  Suncor Energy and Atco are working together on a potential hydrogen project near Fort Saskatchewan that would help reduce the province's carbon dioxide emissions.

  Canada

  May 11, 2021
• Survey suggests residents don’t know how to react to hazardous material leak

  A new survey shows the majority of people living in Alberta's 'Industrial Heartland' don't know what to do if hazardous material was released into the atmosphere.

  Environment

  Jan 12, 2016
• Tests reveal air-quality concerns in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland

  New air-quality tests in one of Canada's largest petrochemical processing regions have revealed more evidence of short-lived but concentrated plumes of toxic chemicals.

  Environment

  Aug 30, 2015