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Month: November 2015

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How Canada failing to become an energy superpower doomed Alberta to a carbon tax

November 27, 2015 JZadmin

Canada did not become an energy superpower. Instead, it is what it has always been: a dependent supplier to the American behemoth Last Sunday, four Big Oil CEOs in expensive suits stood behind Alberta Premier [Read more]

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Markham on Energy

David Suzuki jumps the shark by likening Albertans to slave owners

November 26, 2015 JZadmin

Many observers, including President Barack Obama, believe transition from Age of Fossil Fuels to Age of Clean Energy has already begun David Suzuki’s recent comments equating the Alberta oil and gas industry to American slavery [Read more]

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American model of substituting natural gas for coal should be promoted by Obama in Paris

November 25, 2015 JZadmin

Power generation emissions have fallen dramatically because of American model, will fall more under Clean Power Plan Barack Obama doesn’t often take advice from Big Oil, but the American Petroleum Institute has an idea ahead of [Read more]

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Gerson is wrong, Notley climate strategy sets table for energy deal making

November 23, 2015 JZadmin

Aggressive climate strategy gives Alberta – and Notley – leverage to cut political deals with Obama, Eastern premiers The National Post’s Jen Gerson, echoing far too many Albertans, says the province’s new climate strategy is just an [Read more]

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Markham on Energy

Oil sands access to American markets unspoken goal of radical Alberta climate strategy

November 23, 2015 JZadmin

Alberta’s new climate strategy goes much further than Obama – includes carbon tax, oil sands emissions cap Something momentous happened in Canada yesterday. No, it had nothing to do with hockey or moose. But it had [Read more]

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Can Trudeau play hardball with Obama over oil sands, market access?

November 20, 2015 JZadmin

Justin and Barack hit it off over climate change objectives. Will Canada now get a new oil sands pipeline? Judging by the sidebar meeting between President Obama and new Prime Minister Trudeau at the APEC [Read more]

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Markham on Energy

Froma Harrop couldn’t be more wrong about Keystone XL, Alberta oil sands

November 12, 2015 JZadmin

Canada supplies 45% of American crude oil imports, forecast to increase in coming decades, even without Keystone XL Yesterday I wrote about how climate activist opposition to Keystone XL was part of a larger campaign [Read more]

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The real meaning behind Obama’s rejection of Keystone XL

November 11, 2015 JZadmin

White House decision about Keystone XL not about data, economics, or climate change Supporters of the Canadian oil sands on both sides of the border are in a flap after President Barack Obama denied a [Read more]

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Keystone XL rejection setting stage for new pipeline deals?

November 8, 2015 JZadmin

New governments in Alberta and Ottawa will cut energy-based GHG emissions in return for pipelines, market access Let’s get one thing straight: President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline is not about facts or [Read more]

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