Markham on Energy

This could be bad: federal Conservatives posted a Twitter meme Wednesday showing a Photoshopped Justin Trudeau with a very brown face – making the Prime Minister look Middle Eastern and presumably Islamic – and a [Read more]

Scramble the Alberta government’s “energy war room,” another European financial company is “attacking” the provincial oil industry! Zurich Insurance Group announced Tuesday it will no longer finance oil sands production or pipelines and rail transport [Read more]

Heads up, Calgary oil executives. For the first time, global sales data suggest Early Adopters have begun buying electric vehicles (EVs) and that means the electrification of transportation is speeding up. The only credible threat [Read more]

Postmedia newspapers have for years provided a platform to spread Vivan Krause’s conspiracy narrative about Tides Canada Ed. Note: Tides Canada changed its name to Makeway mid-summer of 2020. This provoked accusations from political conservatives [Read more]

After months of Alberta wailing and teeth gnashing, bills C69 and C48 were passed by the Senate Thursday and will soon become law. While Premier Jason Kenney gears up for a legal challenge of the [Read more]

CPC climate strategy axes carbon pricing, replaces it with regulations, technology subsidies – which Canadians prefer, according to opinion poll Economists and environmentalists hate the Conservative climate plan, unveiled Wednesday, but Andrew Scheer may have [Read more]

The Liberal government approved Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) Tuesday and so begins a summer of bitter political fighting over the project. What will politicians, industry, and activists be scrapping about? Canadian energy and climate change [Read more]

Senior executives from Canadian oil and gas companies gathered for a press conference Thursday to express their displeasure with the Trudeau government’s handling of Bill C69 amendments. The united front supports the widespread criticism of [Read more]

No one expects industry lobby groups’ messaging to be scrupulously accurate, but the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has shot past public message torquing and landed in fake narrative territory. This time it’s the commentary [Read more]

Sonya Savage, Alberta energy minister, at Wednesday press conference flanked by Ontario Energy Minister Greg Rickford Ding! The bell rang Tuesday night signaling the next round of the Bill C69 heavyweight bout, as the Trudeau [Read more]

The new Alberta premier is certainly a populist, at least in the sense of having tapped into the anger – dare we say, rage? – that dominates Alberta political discourse these days. In media interviews, [Read more]

Premier Jason Kenney has followed through on his election campaign promise and announced the “energy war room.” The purpose of the initiative is to “fight back against this campaign against Alberta that is often funded [Read more]

My brother-in-law Doug bought a Chevy Volt a few months ago. He loves the car, but without new subsidies from the federal and BC governments, the sticker price would have killed the purchase. A new [Read more]

On Friday the federal NDP joined the Liberals and Green Party by releasing a climate change strategy. The NDP plan is bold, aggressive, and would likely significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a short [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]

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]

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]

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]