Part 2 · Ghost Lives
Where Stacking Ends
Part 2 of Ghost Lives. Alberta quasi-stacks into BC; BC stacks into the Clean Fuel Regulations; the molecule works once while the paper assigns it multiple lives.
Topic: Carbon Pricing
Part 1 · Ghost Lives
What the Premium Buys
Part 1 of Ghost Lives. FortisBC's renewable gas program charges a premium, spreads cost across every ratepayer, and, on the utility's own Commission filings, can monetize related credits under federal and provincial fuel rules.
Series
Ghost Lives
A document-based investigation of FortisBC's renewable gas program, the BCUC's oversight of environmental attributes, and the stacking of Alberta, British Columbia, and federal carbon claims on a single methane reduction.
Part 7 · The TIER Files
Companies the Board Pays Itself
Part 7 of The TIER Files. Fifteen years of remuneration notes: an agency run entirely by board-reporting contractors, a 93 per cent restatement nobody explained, and a payment stream to management-owned companies that never stopped.
Part 6 · The TIER Files
Small World
Part 6 of The TIER Files. A documented map of board seats, funded companies, and Trusted Partners: the pipeline from the ecosystem to the boardroom, and the disclosure architecture that is supposed to make a small world safe.
What ERA Announced
An essay from the ledger. ERA's project database and press archive show the lifetime commitment figure washing out its own failures, and put a floor under the gross amount the program has announced.
Part 5 · The TIER Files
Paid in Alberta, Claimed Everywhere
Part 5 of The TIER Files. Alberta admits RNG attributes leave the province, TIER money still funds the plants, and the public file shows no ledger that would stop a tonne from being claimed twice.
Part 4 · The TIER Files
Float
Part 4 of The TIER Files. Sixteen years of statements show roughly 55 to 60 cents of every committed dollar has ever reached a project, and the headline number quietly absorbs its own failures.
Part 3 · The TIER Files
From Fund to Bank
Part 3 of The TIER Files. ERA's GIC ladder runs to 2027, its interest income topped half its grant revenue, and the province wrote a clawback clause that says everything.
Part 2 · The TIER Files
Eight-Million-Dollar Regulator
Part 2 of The TIER Files. The provincial branch regulating a multi-billion-dollar carbon market runs on less than the interest income of the agency holding the grant money.
Part 1 · The TIER Files
A Billion-Dollar Detour
Part 1 of The TIER Files. Four years of audited statements show Alberta's industrial carbon fund sent $1.85 to general revenue for every dollar it granted to emissions reduction.
Series
The TIER Files
An ongoing investigation into Alberta's Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) system: the carbon-pricing regime that collects billions from industrial emitters and spends most of it somewhere else.