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Renewable energy part of earning social licence for Alberta oil sands?

March 25, 2017 JZadmin

Renewable energy – primarily wind – already cost-competitive without subsidies in Alberta, says BluEarth CEO Calgary entrepreneur Kent Brown has been named Clean Energy Canada’s “Innovator of the Year” for 2015. Not bad for a [Read more]

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Alberta Wilderness Association, Friends of Science like bickering kids

March 25, 2017 JZadmin

Alberta Wilderness Association complains to APEGA about Friends of Science membership I’m no friend of Friends of Science. Their climate denial is partisan and silly. But they do have a right to their opinions. And [Read more]

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California – The one place Alberta oil sands crude isn’t ‘dirty’

March 25, 2017 JZadmin

Alberta oil sands not discriminated against by California Low Carbon Fuel Standards program It’s ironic that not far from Hollywood, and the residences of American film star eco-activists, sits the Placerita field, which produces the [Read more]

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Who you gonna call when your pipeline leaks? Alberta Energy Regulator, that’s who…

March 25, 2017 JZadmin

Alberta Energy Regulator ensures damages caused by pipeline, well leaks are remediated Alberta has over 400,000 kilometres of pipelines and 180,000 active wells. Not surprisingly, they sometimes leak. What’s leaking and how are the leaks [Read more]

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Enmax preparing for future of Alberta renewable energy

March 25, 2017 JZadmin

Cost of renewables will drop, fossil fuel costs likely to rise, power grid becomes smarter – Enmax I still refer to this column three years later. Long before Rachel Notley and the NDP assumed power in Alberta [Read more]

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Trans Mountain pipeline economic benefit analysis by SFU just not credible

March 25, 2017 JZadmin

Economist pokes holes in SFU study of Trans Mountain economic benefits Note by Markham: Three years after I wrote this column, I still like it. The political atmosphere in the lower mainland of British Columbia [Read more]

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To Kevin O’Leary: Butt out of Alberta politics, you Bay St. ignoramus

March 24, 2017 JZadmin

I wrote this column on our old Beacon Energy site a few days after the election of Rachel Notley and the NDP. Given Kevin O’Leary’s recent cringe-worthy comments about the Alberta Premier, which you can [Read more]

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Does Keystone XL approval mean a re-working of North American oil market?

March 24, 2017 JZadmin

“The importance of a common, continental energy market cannot be overstated.” – Carr spokesperson The verdict is in: bitterly controversial pipeline Keystone XL is going ahead. Canadian and Alberta politicians are throwing their support behind [Read more]

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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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Time for a Notley ‘Big Love’ strategy for Alberta oil and gas sector?

February 27, 2017 JZadmin

If the Alberta NDP love oil and gas sector as much as they say, why not actively court its votes? Bill Paxton, the respected American actor, died Saturday at 61. His death got me thinking [Read more]

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Canadian Energy Politics for Dummies, a refresher for the rest of us

February 20, 2017 JZadmin

Almost all senior Canadian governments base their policies on the energy transition model Canadian energy politics is intense – and growing more intense every year – and confusing, partly because the Alberta-based oil and gas [Read more]

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Dear Premier Smith: Stop lying about the IEA

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

What is Alberta Premier Danielle Smith smoking? The International Energy Agency (IEA) “has become increasingly, unfortunately, a political activist organization.” This was part of Danielle Smith’s response to a question from me during her September [Read more]

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