The man who demands you take personal responsibility for your health in a pandemic refuses even the smallest measure of it for himself or his government.

The Sturgeon Refinery contract is a multibillion-dollar bet against pipelines getting built. By investing in the KXL pipeline, the Alberta government also has a multibillion-dollar direct bet on at least one pipeline getting built. So were guaranteed to lose billions either way, writes Andrew Leach, an energy and environmental economist at the University of Alberta.

In the grand scheme of government, $30 million per year might not seem like a lot, but you can do a lot with that much money when it comes to energy information. What's the Canadian Energy Centre doing?

Andrew Leach says the province's new greenhouse gas emissions policy is not the complete abdication of action on climate change that many expected.