CEPA says new environmental impact assessment act is too weighted toward climate change, First Nations, environmentalists, and gender diversity The Canadian pipeline industry has come out swinging against federal changes to the way projects will [Read more]
$7 billion investment in NGTL System will expand capacity to 2.5 Bcf/d by 2021 TransCanada Corporation (TSX:TRP) (NYSE:TRP) says announced its Northwest Mainline Loop-Boundary Lake pipeline has been placed into service, completing the final section of [Read more]
Suncor Energy Inc. has entered into a multi-year agreement with Komatsu Ltd to purchase autonomous heavy haulers for its oil sands operations north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Canada will regain only 17,000 jobs to 2021 even [Read more]
Push carbon-intense heavy crude oil from Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, etc out of global market with de-carbonized Alberta oil sands crude My understanding of the Paris climate agreement: humankind agreed to de-carbonize the existing energy system [Read more]
“Super-emitters” in Barnett Shale study were often facilities with broken valves or hatches left open, easy fixes for industry A study released last week by the Environmental Defense Fund comes to the same conclusion as [Read more]
Derek Corrigan, mayor of Burnaby, BC, terminus of the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project Only legal threat remaining to Trans Mountain Expansion is judicial review of Canadian government’s project approval After the Federal Court of [Read more]
A still image from video posted to Facebook by user Uni Urchin and confirmed by RCMP shows an officer starting to chase after a demonstrator in Burnaby, B.C. on Sunday, March 25, 2018. Source: BC [Read more]
Using Canadian oil would lower global greenhouse gas emissions compared to a business as usual option At a time when Canadian pipelines are chock full and not enough rail capacity is available to get all of [Read more]
MPs Elizabeth May and Kennedy Stewart prior to their arrest. Photo: News 1130 If Trudeau wavers, then $500 billion of resource development projects could be imperiled Elizabeth May and Kennedy Stewart were arrested Friday after they [Read more]
LNG Canada plant, artist’s rendering Alberta energy minister points out BC’s “hypocrisy” supporting its energy industry, but opposing Alberta pipeline Premier John Horgan announced changes Thursday that are designed to accelerate the development of the British [Read more]
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf. Source: PAcast. Pennsylvania MOU with Ohio, West Virgina re. petrochemical investment might be good idea for Alberta, British Columbia and West Coast LNG How can Albertans tell that the Alberta Energy [Read more]
“As much as some pro-pipeline advocates want to hear politicians going to battle with opponents, voters would probably prefer that their politicians reduce rather than increase the drama.” – Anderson Sometime in the near future, [Read more]
Alberta, industry demanded rule of law be upheld…which means abiding by time-consuming rules, processes set out in NEB Act The Alberta legislature passed a motion 70-0 yesterday calling on the Canadian government to take all [Read more]
Minister McCuaig-Boyd at podium announcing Bill 1, Energy Diversification Act. Photo: Alberta Government The Alberta government released more details of its downstream diversification strategy. Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd announced an expanded Petrochemicals Diversification Program that hopes to [Read more]
“We can’t let Alberta get away with blackmailing us into thinking it’s ok for them to over-run our rights as Canadian citizens to do what we want to do in our province,” says John George, [Read more]
Energy Diversification Act builds upon recommendations from recent Energy Diversification Advisory Committee report Premier Rachel Notley says the new Energy Diversification Act, which kicked off the spring session of the legislature, will attract billions of [Read more]
New Energy Realism: minimal regulation, technical innovation, reliance upon market forces and capital investment Rick Perry gave a fascinating speech at CERAWeek Wednesday. Canadians should pay attention for two reasons. One, the Canadian industry’s recently [Read more]
Foreign Affairs Minister points out that US actually has $2 billion surplus in steel trade with Canada The Canadian oil and gas industry is not pleased with Donald Trump at the moment. The American president’s [Read more]
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley speaking to reporters after meeting of Market Access Task Force. Photo: Global News Best Alberta strategy: 1) support federal jurisdiction over pipeline; 2) build support for industry, TMX in BC, rest [Read more]
Image: Alberta Oil, Marco Cibola Writing farcical nonsense in the pretend voice of an energy executive insults Albertans, important topic Sigh. Graham Hicks is why Alberta can’t have nice things. By “nice things” I mean a [Read more]
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