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The lack of flight recorders prevented the TSB from definitively concluding what caused a plane crash that killed former Alberta premier Jim Prentice and three others, but the pilot was probably disoriented, investigators say. The Transportation Safety Board called on Transport Canada to make flight recording systems mandatory for all commercial and private business operators, as it released its report from an month investigation into the crash. The Cessna Citation jet disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff from Kelowna, B.

Investigators couldn't pinpoint the exact cause of the crash because the plane, which was built in , was not equipped with a cockpit voice recorder or a flight data recorder, the TSB said. Neither is a requirement for that type of aircraft. Manage Print Subscription. Main Menu Search edmontonjournal. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or tap here to see other videos from our team. Latest National Stories. Email Address There was an error, please provide a valid email address. Not only could neither of them run an oil company, you just knew they hated the successful ones. Ditch them and the good times would once again roll across the Prairies. And so here we are, five tumultuous years after Mr.

Kenney entered provincial politics in the wake of the PC collapse with the explicit promise of bringing back the glory days. He appears congenitally incapable of changing his mind and politically obliged to stick to his guns, no matter how dire his ammo supply. And so he reacted to the Teck news with his usual litany of complaints about Mr.

A world aligned inexplicably against poor, beleaguered Alberta. What is to be done? It seems unlikely you could rebuild an entire economy on nothing but enmity and grievance, but Mr. Kenney seems keen to try. Meanwhile, Canada must continue to wrestle with the actual conundrum that led to the Teck project being shelved. Kenney might argue that foreign-funded radicals obsessed with Marxist delusions from the same era the Premier last updated his own worldview are at fault.

But Teck chief executive Don Lindsay in fact made explicit reference to the core problem Alberta faces — climate change — eight times in his word letter to the federal Environment Minister.

Climate change is the main reason new oil sands projects are controversial and the primary motivation for many of those who protest against new pipelines carrying fossil fuels to market.

Climate change is now driving the roller coaster Mr. Prentice warned about. Teck surveyed this battlefield, saw no end to the hostilities and decided its already economically questionable stab at new oil sands development was sure to become cannon fodder. And it exited the war. But there remains no durable way forward for Alberta — or for Canada — that does not reconcile its oil and gas sector with the necessity of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.