Rural Alberta is experiencing something remarkable — a steady, reliable stream of revenue that doesn’t depend on oil prices, doesn’t require new taxes and keeps flowing year after year. In 2025, wind and solar projects generated $70 million in tax revenue for 26 Alberta counties, money that’s paying for roads, emergency services, recreation facilities and all the things that keep rural communities strong.

That’s a 30 per cent increase from last year’s $54 million, and a 151 per cent jump from the $28 million collected just two years ago.

But every project contributing to this year’s revenue was approved before August 2023, when the provincial government announced its moratorium on renewable energy. The pipeline of future projects, the ones that would have kept this revenue growing, has l

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