A University of Calgary postdoctoral fellow’s research work converts greenhouse gas emissions into high value fuels and chemicals before they are released into the environment, significantly cutting CO2 emissions. The technology developed by U of [Read more]
On Thursday, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, announced the launch of the Climate Action Incentive Fund (CAIF). CAIF funding will be available to small and medium-sized companies in provinces where the federal [Read more]
By Neil Agarwal, Jim O’Sullivan, Nicholas Skarzynski This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on May 30, 2019. EIA recently launched a new liquids pipeline projects database that tracks more than 200 crude oil, [Read more]
This article was published by the National Energy Board on May 29, 2019. In 2018, Canada exported 275 thousand barrels per day (Mb/d) of crude oil by marine vessel, or 8 per cent of total [Read more]
By Kien Chau This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on May 29, 2019. In January 2019, Germany’s government-appointed coal commission introduced a proposed pathway to phase out all coal electricity generation by [Read more]
The “say ‘yes’ to TMX” website looks like it was thrown together over someone’s coffee break Jason Kenney prior to the election: “What we’re talking about is moving Alberta from an apologetic or defensive posture [Read more]
CNRL financed purchase with a $3.25 billion from Canadian and American sources On the election trail, Jason Kenney bemoaned the exit of international companies from the Alberta oil patch and promised to stem the tide. [Read more]
This article was published by the National Energy Board on May 8, 2019. In 2018, Canada imported 593 000 barrels per day (Mb/d) of crude oil at a total cost of over C$18 billion. Most crude oil [Read more]
By Eric Denhoff Public opinion polling shows that Canadians, especially Albertans, don’t like carbon pricing. Call it a carbon tax or a carbon levy, Canadians prefer technology subsidies and regulations to pricing greenhouse gas emissions, [Read more]
By Natalie Kempkey This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on May 28, 2019. Canada is the largest energy trading partner with the United States based on the combined value of energy [Read more]
By Vincent Morales, Binnu Jeyakumar This article was published by the Pembina Institute on May 24, 2019. As renewables have become cheaper than conventional generation, there have been fundamental shifts in the economics of electricity generation, while [Read more]
The Green Party of Canada has fired a shot across the bow of the other federal political parties. Leader Elizabeth May, a fierce pipeline foe, is calling for the roughly 600,000 barrels per day (b/d) [Read more]
A Friday tweet from energy reporter Shawn McCarthy pulled back the curtain a bit on Premier Jason Kenney’s off-the-record view of climate change: “investor concerns about climate risk are ‘flavour of the month’…” [Read more]
The BC government does not have the authority to restrict the shipment of diluted bitumen (dilbit) in pipelines that cross the province, according to a decision released Friday morning by the BC Court of Appeals. [Read more]
This executive summary was published by the National Energy Board on May 15, 2019 Canada has vast gasoline production and transportation infrastructure that ensures flexible and reliable supply for Canadians. Canada’s gasoline supply chain begins [Read more]
By Owen Comstock This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on May 3, 2019. The number of drilled but uncompleted wells in seven key oil and natural gas production regions in the [Read more]
Watch Markham’s interview with economist Bernadette Johnson about Venezuela’s oil industry problems: click here Does the Venezuela disaster have a bottom? Not for the country’s oil industry, according to a new report from the US [Read more]
Last year, during an annual dinner in London between one of our biggest oil and gas companies and UK investment houses, the new reality confronting Alberta hit home. The dinner had been, in the glory [Read more]
Should Albertans be surprised that Postmedia has hired Premier Jason Kenney’s former campaign director Nick Koolsbergen to lobby to become “involved in the government’s energy war room.” No, but they should be astonished that Canada’s [Read more]
Gasoline pricing Gasoline’s retail price at the pump consists of the following major components. Changes in any of those components can affect gasoline prices in different regions (In addition to these factors, the switch from winter [Read more]
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