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Month: March 2017

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Expect Trudeau, Notley to take bazooka to Keystone XL gun fight

March 23, 2017 JZadmin

President Donald Trump may leave the political battles with KXL opponents to Canadian leaders The Keystone XL pipeline is back in the public eye, thanks to an imminent approval from the State Dept. Expect Standing [Read more]

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Alberta rejects international consensus on energy, climate at its peril

March 22, 2017 JZadmin

Alberta must never forget Obama’s rejection of Keystone XL that was mostly about climate politics In Monday’s column I argued that if newly chosen Alberta PC leader Jason Kenney becomes premier, he cannot return to the [Read more]

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Jason Kenney and the problem of Alberta oil sands’ political legitimacy

March 20, 2017 JZadmin

Kenney must come up with some way to retain oil sands’ political legitimacy if he wins in 2019 Let’s extend congratulations to Jason Kenney, crowned new leader of the PC party of Alberta this weekend. [Read more]

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Trudeau ‘energy transition’ speech positions him as global policy leader

March 11, 2017 JZadmin

Trudeau understands emerging clean energy technologies will compete with fossil fuels for many decades Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave the most important speech of his political career Friday in Houston. He told more than a [Read more]

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If it’s a war Kevin O’Leary wants, it’s a (facts and data) war he shall get

March 9, 2017 JZadmin

Alberta oil patch busy doing huge deals, attracting international capital, expanding production So, Kevin O’Leary wants to “go to war” with Premier Rachel Notley over the Alberta carbon tax because he thinks it scares away capital. Fortunately, the [Read more]

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Trump leads resurgence of fossil fuel Fossils, but their cause is doomed

March 9, 2017 JZadmin

Embracing energy transition will give first movers like Saudi Arabia significant head start The election of Donald Trump has emboldened climate change opponents – fossil fuel Fossils, if you will. Unfortunately for the American President, he [Read more]

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Saudi King Salman’s Asian trip an effort to win friends, avoid price wars

March 6, 2017 Energi Staff

King Salman looking to wow Asian investors in Aramco IPO, maintain market share The political sands continue to shift in the Middle East as King Salman, Saudi Arabia’s octogenarian monarch, began an epic tour of Asia March [Read more]

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Trump handcuffed by energy and climate jurisdiction, long-term trends

March 5, 2017 JZadmin

Primary energy regulation by states, industry already adopting cleaner, more efficient technologies While President Donald Trump continues to suck the oxygen from news cycles with controversy after scandal after midnight twitter war, the American oil [Read more]

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Should European Union look to Trudeau for global climate leadership?

March 4, 2017 JZadmin

Trudeau is far more pragmatic than Obama, supporting pipelines and oil sands development The European Union appears to think Justin Trudeau embodies the kind of climate leadership once provided by Barack Obama. Maybe they should listen [Read more]

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Solid-state EV battery breakthrough from Li-ion battery inventor John Goodenough

March 1, 2017 JZadmin

Analysts warn that innovation in the lab could take 15 years to become a viable commercial EV battery John Goodenough may have done it again. Thirty-seven years after co-inventing the technical breakthrough that made lithium-ion batteries [Read more]

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