Canada's federal government has assured Alberta that it will not bear a disproportionate burden of any retaliatory tariffs imposed in response to potential US import levies.

Bonnie Drozdowski is the executive director of environment, bio-industrial and clean technologies at InnoTech Alberta, which received funds for a project based on a new technique to capture CO2 from flue gas at the Shepard Energy Centre on the east side of Calgary.

Canada's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources said Canada's response to Trump's tariffs would focus on products in a way that hurts Americans more than Canadians.

Any Canadian response to U.S. tariffs will be regionally fair and equitable and not single out Alberta, Canada's main oil-producing province, Canada's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said on Wednesday.

The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, will make a funding announcement to support carbon management technologies in Alberta. A media availability will follow.

These projects will try to improve carbon capture technologies, making them more affordable, efficient at reducing emissions and easier to use across industrial sectors.

Restricting Alberta energy exports to the U.S. is within Ottawa's purview. But recent comments suggest that move may be unlikely, though not "off the table."

With Canada continuing to face pressure from the United States to beef up border security, the RCMP says a Black Hawk helicopter started patrolling the Alberta-U.S. boundary on Tuesday. Helicopter patrols will travel along the Prairie border searching for illegal activity,

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Canada's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said on Wednesday any response to U.S. tariffs would be regionally fair and equitable and would not target Alberta, Canada's main oil-producing province.

The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, will make a funding announcement to support carbon management technologies in Alberta. A media availability will follow.

For almost 50 years, the Alberta government has invested natural resource royalties in the Alberta Heritage Fund to help reduce reliance on those resources — namely oil and gas. The government wants to grow the fund to $250 billion by 2050.