Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has accused Tides Canada of receiving money from US foundations and using it to fund anti-pipeline activism directed at projects like Trans Mountain Expansion. In a stunning revelation, CEO Joanna Kerry [Read more]
New survey results from Alberta CEOs show the road to recovery will be long Alberta executives are not a happy bunch these days. The combination of the COVID-19 economic collapse and an oil price war [Read more]
Hydrogen seems poised to be the next big thing in energy. Canadian governments worried about reducing emissions are looking to replace natural gas for space heating and diesel for long-haul trucking. Alberta proposes to manufacture [Read more]
“Big picture, we see this as another step in the re-rating of oil and gas, and the journey from Big Oil to Big Energy.” – Wood Mckenzie International consulting giant Wood Mckenzie issued a press [Read more]
By Chris Namovicz, Richard Bowers This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on June 12, 2020. Earlier this year, the Southwest Power Pool (SPP), the regional transmission organization that manages the electric grid for much [Read more]
Innovative Canadian company removes CO2 from the air, then creates low-carbon fuels with it What if the fight against global warming included taking CO2 directly from the air? Does that sound too much like science [Read more]
Are wind and solar costs really lower than new coal and natural gas power generation? How low can they go? Is the Canadian power grid evolving to accommodate renewables? Will the system be able to [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on June 10, 2020. A company will abandon a pipeline (permanently shutting the pipeline down and rehabilitating the land around it) after the pipeline is no [Read more]
By Natalie Kempkey and ShaMyra Sylvester This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on June 5, 2020. Canada is the largest source of US energy imports and the second-largest destination for US [Read more]
The City of Edmonton is offering a number of environmental rebate programs to help commercial property owners, residential homeowners and transportation enthusiasts invest in energy efficient upgrades. The programs were available as of Wednesday and [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on June 3, 2020. New motor vehicle registrations in Canada decreased by 3 per cent, a drop of over 55 000, from 2017 to 2018; however [Read more]
Faced with potentially significant market disruption from COVID-19 pandemic and energy transition, oil sands giant signals that materials, clean fuels are the future The CEOs of Suncor and Alberta Innovates published an extraordinary op-ed in [Read more]
Alberta hydrocarbon sector already has problems accessing capital. Being perceived as a climate-risky jurisdiction could dry up access to capital or raise costs of financing, causing serious consequences for Alberta economy Two weeks ago, the [Read more]
By Mickey Francis This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on May 28, 2020. In 2019, US annual energy consumption from renewable sources exceeded coal consumption for the first time since before [Read more]
Rail transportation of goods, including energy, on Canada’s two major rail networks, Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) decreased in line with slower economic activity and lower demand for energy due to [Read more]
By Brett Wittmeier This article was published by Folio on January 10, 2020. University of Alberta engineers have found a way to turn waste fat, oil and grease into a steady supply of renewable energy. [Read more]
By Stephen York This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on May 26, 2020. In the latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that decreases in natural gas [Read more]
Alberta under Jason Kenney never misses an opportunity to tarnish its reputation and promote narratives that hinder, not help, the very oil and gas industry it purports to champion How much damage to its international [Read more]
The BC government reports its Dormant Sites Reclamation program, a federal government funded project to clean up inactive and orphan wells, received over 1,100 applications and was almost fully subscribed on the first day it [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on May 20, 2020. The location of propane exports in Canada is changing. Increasingly, more volumes of propane are exported from British Columbia. In January 2020, [Read more]
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