The Citizen Lab raises human rights concerns in letter to Canada’s National Energy Board regarding security threat monitoring services request for information. The Manitoban photo. Security threat monitoring services could result in monitoring, targeting of [Read more]
The preservation of the OPEC+ group masks the fact real power in the oil market has shifted decisively to Saudi Arabia and Russia, with some political input from the United States. OPEC photo. Oil market [Read more]
Hedge funds and other money managers trimmed their combined net long position in the six most important futures and options contracts linked to petroleum for the ninth week in a row. BP photo. Hedge funds [Read more]
Oil traders are focused on the OPEC meeting in Vienna this week, however, the direction of oil prices over the next year will be more influenced by less visible developments in the major oil-consuming countries, especially [Read more]
The common front at G7 Summit was important signal that Canada is in good company on what looks to be a difficult file By Glen Hodgson, senior fellow, Conference Board of Canada The full Trump [Read more]
Hedge funds and other money managers cut their combined net long position in the six most important petroleum futures and options contracts by 18 million barrels in the week to June 12. Nexen photo. Hedge [Read more]
With oil prices up 70 per cent over the last 12 months, higher prices are set to moderate OECD consumption and thereby global demand growth in 2018/19. Chevron photo. Consumption has risen by an average [Read more]
The combination of falling Venezuelan output, sanctions on Iran, low commercial stocks, low spare capacity, and constraints on the expansion of US shale is priming the market for higher prices in 2018/19. Apache photo. Output [Read more]
Mike Hogan shares capacity market design basics and lessons Alberta can learn from other jurisdictions in this blog published by the Pembina Institute on June 11 2018. AESO finalizes rules for new electricity capacity market [Read more]
Alberta still has a healthy reserve margin in the electricity system with no need for immediate development and the creation of Energy Efficiency Alberta (EEA) has the province in a position to catch up on years [Read more]
Hedge funds and other money managers cut their net long position in the six most important futures and options contracts linked to petroleum prices by 72 million barrels in the week to June 5. Encana [Read more]
“Renewables can provide greater reliability for the electricity grid because of the nature of their distribution.” – Jeyakumar By Binnu Jeyakumar, Director of Pembina Institute’s electricity program Alberta’s electricity sector is undergoing a substantial transformation. There’s no [Read more]
Europe will import an extra 35 bcm of LNG in 2019, a 50% increase on 2018 Fears about an oversupplied liquefied natural gas (LNG) market are beginning to ease as indications point towards a more [Read more]
Matt Chester discusses “Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays” by Paul Kingsnorth in this article posted on his blog, Chester Energy and Policy, on June 6, 2018. Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and [Read more]
Globally, nearly 3 billion people forced to cook with wood, other fuels that produce smoke, resulting in 2.8 million premature deaths Bruce Murphy, IEA India Programme Manager, and Hannah Daly, WEO analyst On 28 April 2018 Indian [Read more]
Canada could use economic gains from higher oil production and more exports as a result of pipeline construction to help reduce GHG emissions abroad. Ongoing peat fires in Indonesia emit more GHGs than all of [Read more]
A closer look at the market revealed plenty of signs the oil prices rally might be running out of momentum and was becoming increasingly vulnerable to a correction. Anadarko photo. Plenty of forewarning that oil [Read more]
The updated US wind turbine database released by the US Department of Energy and the US Geological Survey allows the public to view data on the location and characteristics of wind turbines. VisitTehachapi.com photo. US [Read more]
By participating in programs offered by Energy Efficiency Alberta, Albertans can see a net financial benefit from the carbon levy, as the bill savings offset the levy costs. SolarAlberta.ca photo. A new energy efficient economy [Read more]
Douglas Black, elected Senator from Alberta, says pipelines like Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain are part of balancing Canada’s resource-based economy and climate agenda. Trans Mountain photo. BC government stalling construction of Trans Mountain pipeline By [Read more]
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