Aaron Lane

Proud father, husband, engineer!

[William Lacey @WilliamLaceyYYC]

Before the @globeandmail opines on using energy as a weapon, perhaps it would behove them to publish this map and educate Ontario as to where their oil comes from. Be careful weaponizing energy as it may get weaponized against you, and there would be no response.

[FRONTLINES TPUSA @FrontlinesTPUSA]

The West Wants Out: Alberta Edges Closer to Independence from Canada

Canada’s most conservative province, Alberta, has grown increasingly frustrated with the federal government in Ottawa for decades. Now, the movement for greater autonomy—or even full independence—is gaining serious momentum.

In this Frontlines TPUSA exclusive, reporters @TaylerUSA and @kiansimone44 head west to speak with the leaders of Alberta’s independence movement. They explore what a more independent Alberta could mean for America’s energy and national security.

@TPUSA

[Jeff Berube @ABJeffBerube]

That’s not even close to the whole story. For most of us, one, two, three, or even ten pipelines changes nothing.

When oil crashed in 2014, the industry had tens of thousands of layoffs. The province was hurting but there were signs of hope: Northern Gateway, Energy East, and TMX.

Northern Gateway had its approval cancelled by Trudeau.

Energy East was cancelled because Ottawa wanted to count upstream and downstream emissions, which put the project on shaky ground.

But the coup de grace came when Québec’s prime minister at the time, François Legault said that there was “no social acceptability for a pipeline.”

TC cancelled it shortly after.

Finally, we fought over TMX because Ottawa wouldn’t assert its jurisdiction.

Trudeau let Horgan and BC make it so risky to try to build TMX that Kinder Morgan had to pull out.

Nobody wanted the federal government to buy the pipeline, they should have simply enforced the conditions to ensure it was safe for Kinder Morgan to proceed.

Albertans had stayed quiet for a long time over equalization because Ottawa was staying out of our faces, so it was just the price to pay to operate in this country.

But when came time to help Alberta after the oil crash, the whole nation turned its back on us and proceeded to crush the three beacons of hope we were counting on to turn the corner.

That’s when a lot of us started paying closer attention to politics to figure out how to get our voices heard.

It didn’t take very long before we started looking at seats in the House of Commons and the Senate and realizing how unequal and unfair our representation is in Ottawa.

Bottom line is that we’re effectively screwed and that the people we subsidize through equalization continuously vote for governments that attack our industry.

Fixing the constitutional mess is impossible because it would require either Ontario or Québec and all the maritime provinces to vote in favour of curtailing their own political power. It will never happen.

In 2019, we figured that Canada was going to be smart enough to realize that Trudeau was a disaster and we’d get back some common sense.

Wrong. Trudeau was voted in for a second time.

If you were in the oil and gas industry at the time, you probably had your first taste of western alienation with the Wexit movement instantly polling above 30% in support of independence.

Next up is covid and that’s when all hell broke loose with the spending, the OIC to prohibit common guns, etc.

Albertans’ living standards were the most impacted by Trudeau and now Carney’s insane deficit spending.

We watched as Trudeau pranced around on the world stage, virtue-signalling with our money while the cost of living was sky rocketing.

In FY 2024-2025, we watched the Liberals send $13B abroad between gender equality and climate change foreign aid, while running a $36.3B deficit.

We had one last hope with Pierre looking like he was going to get elected and stop the bleeding. But they parachuted Carney in and the rest is history.

The country’s finances are in shambles and it would take 3 generations to fix this mess if we started today by doing the obvious, which Ottawa is still refusing to do.

Ottawa is fiscally irresponsible and now headed down a very dangerous path of authoritarianism with all the bills that were passed in this parliamentary session.

Alberta independence supporters see the writing on the wall and don’t care about any number of pipelines.

Once you’ve looked close enough at the system, you realize it can’t be fixed and there’s no coming back from realizing the true extent of the mess Canada is in.

The Canada we grew up in doesn’t exist anymore. It is a sinking ship and independence is the only way to save Alberta.

[Eric Nuttall @ericnuttall]

The Grand Ransom™️has now been signed: a reduced & deferred carbon tax to $140/t by 2040, and the promise of a new pipeline that "is tied to Pathways", a $30BN project that is irrelevant and enormously expensive. No other country in the world is doing this to themselves, just 🇨🇦.

[Eric Nuttall @ericnuttall]

Jon McKenzie, CEO of Cenovus, came out swinging on their Q1 conference call today. Great to see CEO's becoming more vocal about our squandered opportunity! To summarize: no other oil producing country is doing this to themselves...time for Canada to wake up!

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

The days of mincing words in Canadian O&G are over:
“Unfortunately, while both governments have taken steps toward this critical national interest objective since signing the MOU, the pace of change has been slow, and we are at risk of letting this opportunity pass Canada by.  
Because of complex regulatory processes, uncompetitive carbon frameworks and fiscal systems that do not incent growth, there has not been a major new greenfield oil sands project sanctioned in Canada since 2013 and investment has dramatically declined.”

https://t.co/Ittb84dgKf

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Canada is not a democracy. It's not even a free nation anymore.

How could it be when Parliament is sidelined for eight months, allowing the executive branch to reign unchecked?

Or when foreign interference is ignored and elections are gamed?

Or when courts rule that the government broke the law and nothing changes?

Or when the state controls your speech, your property, your energy, your news, your guns, your healthcare—and offers you assisted suicide when the wait times get too long?

Canada has become something else: a managed oligarchy with democratic trappings, where the individual exists to serve the state.

Look how far Canada has fallen. Because this could be America's future overnight.

[Eric Nuttall @ericnuttall]

But Eric, the DOW is back to ~50,000...what energy crisis?!?

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

BOMBSHELL: Retired editor-in-chief of the Calgary Herald blows the whistle on Canadian media

"they are no longer independent. They are dependent on government subsidies"

"the era of independent media is over"

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

If Alberta unhooked from Ottawa, would it be chaos?

The opposite. It's Carney who creates chaos and uncertainty.

Alberta just lost an $8B oilsands project because of Carney's carbon pricing.

His ideological obsession destabilizes the oil patch.

Independence solves that.

[Canadian Natural @CanadianNatural]

Canadian Natural Resources Limited announces 2025 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results press releases dated Thursday, March 5, 2026. View our press releases here: https://t.co/F5o2FckTre

[Aaron Lane @Laner_AA]

@ericnuttall Well said Eric! Thank you for standing up for our industry. The ignorance of some politicians is mind blowing…..🤯

[YEGWAVE @yegwave]

Should the Province of Alberta cease to be part of Canada and become an independent state?

Important: please repost to reach a larger sample size after voting 🗳️

[Aaron Lane @Laner_AA]

@PierreVLeBrun How many Stanley Cups and Conn Smyth trophies do Horvat and Suzuki have? Sam Bennett has two and one!

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

It's time to treat the group Coastal First Nations for what they are, an activist group started with money from American foundations opposed to Canada's oil industry.
They have no veto over a pipeline and they don't speak for all communities.
https://t.co/dEolWB5IzT

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

100-year-old World War II Veteran Alec Penstone dropping truth bombs all over UK live morning TV: "What we fought for was our freedom, even now [the country] is worse than it was when I fought for it".

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

THEY DID IT, CANADA 🇨🇦

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1993, THE BLUE JAYS ARE HEADED TO THE WORLD SERIES 🏆

[Darren Haynes @DarrenWHaynes]

When word got out…

[Aaron Lane @Laner_AA]

@NHLFlames @MolsonCoors Terrible choice!!! There’s at least a dozen other really good local Calgary made breweries that could fill this void! Poor choice Flames! Local is better!! 👎🏻

[Lima Sopoaga @LimaSopoaga]

I don’t know who needs to be watching this game in Canada.but whoever it is, these ladies deserve the most funding available.