Political scientist Duane Bratt says Alberta’s oil-heavy economy has insulated it from Trump’s tariffs, while the trade war is testing Danielle Smith’s U.S. strategy and Alberta separatism. [Read more]
Thomas Lukaszuk says Alberta should stop shielding oil and gas from Canada’s response to Donald Trump and cancel the October 19 referendum in the name of national unity. [Read more]
Alberta’s oil sands were not simply discovered and developed. Jeremy Schmidt argues that government science, geoscience, technology and water governance helped create the modern petroleum economy — and shaped how Alberta thinks about land and energy. [Read more]
Energi Media journalism in video, audio, and essays YouTube Channel: Video energy news Substack Essays: Thoughtful Energy Journalism Energi Talks Audio Podcast Website: Energy news University of Houston economist Ed Hirs says Prime Minister Mark Carney is justified in [Read more]
Charlie Angus says Canada’s tariff fight with Donald Trump has become a sovereignty battle—and warns Ottawa may be in for a prolonged confrontation with Washington. [Read more]
Donald Trump did not create Trumpism. He gave it a face. That is the central argument of Donald Kettl’s The Right-Wing Idea Factory, and it changes how we should understand the political crisis now unfolding in [Read more]
Canada must fundamentally rethink its economic, defence and foreign-policy relationships as Donald Trump transforms the United States from the country’s most reliable partner into a potential source of coercion, says Globe and Mail columnist Andrew [Read more]
Aurel Braun says the Iran conflict has become a test of endurance as Tehran uses asymmetric weapons to offset economic and military pressure from the United States. [Read more]
The goal is to create a society that is deeply conservative, Christian nationalist, authoritarian libertarian, and unlike the rest of Canada The activists leading Alberta’s separatist movement are drawing on the organizations, tactics and worldview [Read more]
National Observer columnist says politicians, media are reinforcing victimhood while failing to test economic assumptions behind pipelines, LNG and long-term oil growth Alberta’s political grievances are less a product of mistreatment by Ottawa than a [Read more]
In the most recent response to the ongoing trade war between the United States and China, Beijing says it is adding LNG from the United States to a list of proposed tariffs. Also on Friday, [Read more]
Iran’s OPEC governor, Hossein Kazempour, says US President Donald Trump is wrong to think that Saudi Arabia and other producers, including Russia, will be able to compensate for millions of barrels of crude taken out [Read more]
“The U.S. administration should reconsider its actions and provide Canada with a permanent exemption” – Simard The U.S. administration has announced that Canada’s exemption from the 10 per cent aluminium tariff is lifted as of June 1 and the tariff [Read more]
On Sunday, Kinder Morgan Canada announced it will walk away from its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project if disputes between BC and Alberta are not settled by May 31. Shutterstock photo by Art Babych. Existing 300,000 [Read more]
IEA Executive Director Dr Fatih Birol delivers testimony to the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Image: CSPAN) “China is going to import a lot of LNG to replace their coal” The International [Read more]
Photo above shows reclaimed oil sands tailings pond. Syncrude Canada photo. Oil sands tailings ponds hold over 340 billion gallons of waste Environmentalists are concerned a recent ruling by the Alberta Energy Regulator green-lighting the [Read more]
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