Elon Musk told investors in June that Tesla electric semis will be available by 2020, one year later than Musk had initially promised. A number of other big rig makers have also announced they will [Read more]
Husky Energy says it will boost its downstream capacity, which will insulate the company from recent large heavy oil discounts, if it is able to complete its hostile takeover effort of MEG Energy Corp. CP [Read more]
UCP leader Jason Kenney speaking to the Energy Relaunch conference. Photo: CBC “This is not energy policy, it is Donald Trump-style, grievance-fueled populism pandering to the frustrations and anger of an industry that thinks it [Read more]
A survey of Alberta and BC residents taken near the time the conflict over the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) erupted suggests that the polarization of opinion between the two provinces over the past [Read more]
According to the National Energy Board, Canadian crude exports have jumped nine fold over the past 32 years and recently, exports to the US Gulf Coast have increased. Suncor photo. Increasingly, Canadian crude exports going [Read more]
General Motors is hoping the Trump administration will support a nationwide program to increase sales of zero emissions vehicles (ZEV), despite the government’s proposal to end California’s ability to regulate more clean vehicle use. ZEV [Read more]
According to a report by the International Energy Agency, major oil and gas exporters will need to commit to reform and economic diversification to cope with the changing dynamics of global energy. Shutterstock photo. Higher [Read more]
Many energy sector majors are moving downstream in order to capture additional value from hydrocarbons resources, often co-locating new petrochemical facilities with refineries to capture operational synergies. Total photo. Reform initiatives underway in energy sector This [Read more]
LNG imports to Europe by pipeline, in particular from Russia and Norway, have increased. In 2017, natural gas imports from Russia provided 35 per cent of the total EU-28 supply and Norway provided 24 per cent. Total [Read more]
SFU professor Majid Bahrami and researchers at the university’s Surrey campus are developing a 1200W passively air-cooled charger for light electric vehicles (LEVs) using graphite sheets to enhance thermal performance, eliminate parasitic cooling power and [Read more]
Notley government, CEPA, Alberta oil and gas industry united in opposition to Bill C69, demand for amendments Shannon Phillips is not happy with the state of Bill C69, the Trudeau Government’s new legislation to regulate [Read more]
Some analysts are concerned that changes in maritime fuel regulations will cut into the availability and raise prices of low-sulphur diesel and jet kerosene used by trucks, trains, planes, farmers and industry. Maritime fuel rules [Read more]
After several days of declines, oil prices rose on Wednesday after the US Energy Information Administration reported a larger-than-anticipated drop in US crude inventories. Equinor photo. Oil prices fell 5 per cent Tuesday Oil prices [Read more]
The effects of the US reimposing Iran sanctions and the potential response from members of the OPEC and other countries pose significant uncertainty to the forecast. Al Jazeera photo. Trump administration re-imposed Iran sanctions in May [Read more]
The outlook for the global economy is deteriorating. A broad range of asset prices and real-time economic indicators pointing to either a slowdown in growth or an outright recession occurring in 2019. Financial and real indicators [Read more]
Finland has is using nuclear, hydro and bioenergy to cut its use of fossil fuels for its total energy supply use among International Energy Agency countries. InvestInFinland.fi photo. Bioenergy accounts for 29 per cent of [Read more]
SolFilm is a “lightweight photonic film consisting of high-efficiency, gallium arsenide PV nanowires that converts high energy sunlight directly into power and is transparent for infra-red light. The infra-red light can be converted into power…enabling a far [Read more]
Headliners at the Energy Relaunch conference Thursday in Calgary at the Metropolitan Conference Centre Energy Relaunch would benefit from more outward looking, forward thinking panelists – like the Alberta oil sands CEOs – instead of [Read more]
Carbon dividends maintain incentives to switch to lower-carbon goods because there’s a separation between what the carbon price costs you and the value of the dividends. How much the carbon price costs is tied to [Read more]
By 2019, the federal government will impose the Canadian carbon tax on the remaining provinces that have not created their own climate change plan. Video Blocks photo. Canadian carbon tax will reach $50 per ton [Read more]
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