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Opinion: Why Mark Carney’s pipeline deal with Alberta puts the Canadian federation in jeopardy

December 10, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Conversation on Dec. 10, 2025. By Stewart Prest The recently struck memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Canada and Alberta is a high-stakes strategy that risks deepening already deep divides in Canadian [Read more]

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Opinion: What is going on with Alberta’s climate-change strategy?

November 3, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by Policy Options on Nov. 3, 2025. By Lennie Kaplan Alberta’s climate-change strategy, the emissions reduction and energy development plan (ERED), announced with fanfare by the Smith government in April 2023, seems to [Read more]

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Letter to the Editor: Officials and media must stop misstating Aboriginal title law

October 24, 2025 Energi Staff

By Scott Janzen Rob Shaw’s recent article repeats a serious legal error introduced by Attorney General Niki Sharma and amplified by BC Conservative Leader John Rustad. Both stated that Aboriginal title “cannot displace private property [Read more]

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Opinion: As oil market surplus keeps rising, something’s got to give

October 17, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by the International Energy Agency on Oct. 17, 2025. By Toril Bosoni, Head of Oil Industry and Markets Division Oil surplus hits the water The global oil market may be at [Read more]

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Opinion: Bulldozer or bystander? Canada’s stakes in the new global economy

September 23, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by Policy Options on Sept. 9, 2025. By Rachel Samson Big changes are coming to the global economy and the stakes are high for Canada. Over many decades, we have built [Read more]

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Opinion: Only targeted industrial policy will fulfil Canada’s value-adding potential

September 12, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by Policy Options on Sept. 8, 2025. By Jim Stanford Canada has long striven to be more than a mere supplier of raw resources to more developed trading partners. From the [Read more]

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Opinion: Industrial policy and Canada’s uncertain future

September 8, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by Policy Options on Sept. 5, 2025. By Steve Lafleur Donald Trump’s re-election as president of the United States has left our entire country in a state of flux. His tariffs on [Read more]

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Opinion: How to drive Africa’s energy transition

September 4, 2025 Energi Staff

By Anibor Kragha External expectations have framed Africa’s role in the energy transition for years. Despite facing different realities, such as limited infrastructure, restricted access to capital, and less influence in global energy policy, it [Read more]

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Opinion: When ‘nation-building’ goes wrong: Carney, Hodgson must think bigger than LNG exports

September 2, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix Weekender on Sept. 1, 2025. By Mitchell Beer With Prime Minister Mark Carney and Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson just back from their liquefied natural [Read more]

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Opinion: Why the federal government must act cautiously on fast-tracking project approvals

June 3, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Conversation on June 3, 2025. By Mark Winfield The acceleration of federal approvals for “nation-building projects” was the major theme of this week’s first ministers meeting in Saskatoon. A rush to [Read more]

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Opinion: Alberta has long accused Ottawa of trying to destroy its oil industry. That’s a dangerous myth

May 8, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Conversation on May 8, 2025. By Ian Urquhart “Alberta is a place soaked in self-deception.” Those words began Alberta-based journalist Mark Lisac’s 2004 book aimed at shattering the myths that have [Read more]

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Opinion: Mark Carney wants to make Canada an energy superpower — but what will be sacrificed for that goal?

May 5, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Conversation on May 5, 2025. By Leah Levac, Jane Stinson, Leah M. Fusco Canada’s recent federal election was regularly dubbed one of the most consequential of the last 50 years. [Read more]

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Opinion: Trump is serious about annexing Canada. How will climate and energy policy bring us the allies we need?

April 28, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on April 26, 2025. By Mitchell Beer This Weekender mostly combines material we published in late February and early April, but the context is a bit more urgent…again. [Read more]

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Opinion: Green hydrogen for energy was a story we told ourselves

April 25, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on April 24, 2025. By Michael Barnard – Energy Mix Guest Writer The French philosopher Bruno Latour once said technology doesn’t succeed because it works. It succeeds because enough [Read more]

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Opinion: Banking on LNG exports is a high-risk gamble for Canada’s future growth

April 23, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by Policy Options on April 23, 2025. By Michael Sambasivam  As Canada’s greatest ally has decided to break our trust and bare its teeth, Canadians have made clear a desire to [Read more]

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Opinion: Carney’s ‘Canada Strong’ rally taps into today’s existential crisis, sets the tone for the next one

April 21, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on April 21, 2025. By Mitchell Beer With the polls closing in eight days, we took a long weekend road trip to staid, suburban Ottawa. A boisterous [Read more]

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Opinion: Coal in Alberta – Neither public outrage nor waning global demand seem to matter to Danielle Smith

April 14, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Conversation on April 14, 2025. By Ian Urquhart  “We heard you, Albertans.” With those words, Alberta Energy Minister Brian Jean put coal mining in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains back on the table last [Read more]

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Opinion: U.S. tariffs are about to trigger the greatest trade diversion the world has ever seen

April 14, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Conversation on April 14, 2025 By Wolfgang Alschner United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs have shaken the global trading system. Canadians have rightly been preoccupied by the tariff’s devastating impact [Read more]

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Opinion: On climate and energy, Canada needs pragmatics, not performance pieces

April 14, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on April 13, 2025. By Mitchell Beer There’s still a long way to go before the votes are counted in Canada’s April 28 federal election, longer still [Read more]

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Opinion: GHG emissions likely to rise if Conservatives win April 28 election

April 10, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by Policy Options on April 9, 2025. By Emma Starke, Katya Rhodes Reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is not rocket science. Our policies need to make climate-related pollution more expensive [Read more]

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“Cost and Carbon Competitiveness” was an Alberta rallying cry for years. What happened?

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

Reducing methane emissions to zero is important for Canada’s competitiveness as global markets increasingly price carbon For all the noise surrounding climate policy, this is the rare file where ideology doesn’t change the physics, and [Read more]

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