Alberta oil sands in good shape to ride out price volatility, but high paying oil and gas jobs won’t be back until 2018 Alberta is watching the Saudi vs. US shale cage match over marketshare with some [Read more]
Tony Seba says private car ownership will be dead by 2030. Experts say more like 2050 or 2060, but change is coming Suddenly, Tony Seba is the talk of the town. The Stanford lecturer released [Read more]
Window is open now to build support for new pipelines, Calgary must act quickly to engage Canadians on climate – Dave Collyer For a host of reasons – some historic, some cultural – Calgary-based oil/gas [Read more]
Rex Murphy is captured. A boot licker. A sycophant who steps ‘n fetches for the master – Hislop A principle of media punditry is – or used to be and should remain – that complex [Read more]
PC members appear to be Early to Late Majority Adopters, Wildrose are Laggards. Can they get along in the United Conservative Party? The Wildrose Party and PCs agreed Thursday to create a new political organization – [Read more]
Trans Mountain Expansion is a done deal, construction like to start in Sept. Can a BC NDP minority government hinder or stop construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline? Some British Columbia politicians think so, [Read more]
Alberta oil sands is only source of tax revenue that can eliminate Trudeau government budget deficits If the Canadian Government accepts the recommendations of the expert panel on modernizing the National Energy Board, Alberta will be [Read more]
Expert panel recommendations are top to bottom reworking of energy infrastructure assessment process After years of complaints from First Nations and eco-activists that the National Energy Board was biased toward the energy industry, the Canadian [Read more]
Part 1 of a fascinating interview with Dave Collyer, who has sobering advice for Alberta oil/gas industry “When it comes to carbon, the horse has bolted the barn.” That’s how Dave Collyer, former president of [Read more]
Thanks to Markham Hislop’s work on the Energy Transition, he was in favour of the NDP and Liberal climate/energy policies before Rachel Notley or Justin Trudeau (that’s a joke, folks) When I began my journalism career [Read more]
Nothing Drew Barnes said in Thursday’s Question Period is accurate, knowledgeable, or insightful Drew Barnes is the Wildrose energy critic, which is a pretty busy job given the size of the Alberta oil patch and [Read more]
Advice to Alberta energy leaders: Better policy ideas, better politics, stop saying stupid stuff in public, emulate Dave Collyer Are you familiar with the expert fallacy? An example is the medical doctor who thinks that because he’s [Read more]
Clark could still win a majority, but even in a Liberal minority government Greens have policy priorities other than Trans Mountain Expansion British Columbians woke up not entirely sure who their next premier will be [Read more]
Edmonton Sun columnist Lorne Gunter ignores basic journalism – interviewing sources, respect for facts – in recent column Canadians understand the quality of modern journalism has declined because media businesses, particularly newspapers, suffer from a broken [Read more]
Tony Seba predicts global oil output will fall from 100MM b/d in 2020 to 70 MM b/d because of rapid rise of EV-based “transportation as a service” If you live in Alberta or Texas or some [Read more]
Notley government says it focused on growing pipeline market access, no plans for neatbit by rail Albertans are mad in news stories and op-eds, they’re mad in the Legislature, and, boy, are they ever mad on social [Read more]
Juniors will be be larger, better capitalized, only working in very best production areas – Gary Leach, EPAC CEO Like everyone else in the global oil patch, Canadian oil and gas juniors have had a [Read more]
“After banks and investors are satisfied, they might have some revenue to start hiring people.” – Mark Salkeld, PSAC The past two years have been rough for Alberta, with oil prices in the tank and [Read more]
Many Vancouver activists are angry, ready for “direct action” on Trans Mountain Expansion – Kai Nagata “New infrastructure to bring in more oil from the tar sands? Forget it, it’s not going to happen,” says Quebec’s [Read more]
If Tony Seba is correct, the Texas and Alberta economies just took a metaphorical bullet to the head Will the emerging electric vehicle “transportation as a service” business model kill the global oil industry in 10 [Read more]
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