Existing Trans Mountain shipments average 258,000 b/d of crude oil/blended bitumen and 44,000 b/d of gasoline and diesel Fill up your tanks while gasoline is still affordable, British Columbia, because Rachel Notley just served notice she [Read more]
JT Steenkamp, Shell Canada engineer. Photo: CBC. University of Calgary is monitoring and analyzing field test data from Alberta’s first vanadium Redox Flow Battery JT Steenkamp had momentarily stepped away from his family’s Christmas festivities [Read more]
Economic Development Minister Deron Bilous, left, and Jonathan Clarkson 111 projects already receiving close to $9 million in support through first and second intakes of CARES program The Alberta Government announced the approval of 62 [Read more]
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley addressing cabinet on Monday Kinder Morgan says the fight between governments influenced it to suspend Trans Mountain Expansion. Will more fighting fix the problem? You can hear the cheers from across [Read more]
Canadian Natural, CNOOC Nexen, Cenovus Energy, ConocoPhillips Canada, Devon, Imperial Oil, Suncor partnered on the $20 million global competition to re-imagine CO2 Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) joined XPRIZE and NRG Energy in revealing the [Read more]
As of March 29, Alberta rig count is 114, down from 208 on March 2 Baker Hughes says the international rig count for March 2018 was 972, down 7 from the 979 counted in Feb. [Read more]
Program expected to attract $10 billion in new private investment Competition is now open for the second and third rounds of the Renewable Electricity Program, which will see more private-sector investment, jobs and partnerships with Indigenous [Read more]
Jason Kenney is pushing the panic button about pipelines after industry roasted the Trudeau government’s Bill C69, which sets out a new process for environmental impact assessments of major projects. Rachel Notley’s office says panic [Read more]
Push carbon-intense heavy crude oil from Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, etc out of global market with de-carbonized Alberta oil sands crude My understanding of the Paris climate agreement: humankind agreed to de-carbonize the existing energy system [Read more]
Funding for challenge is part of $1.4-billion investment, over seven years, for innovation projects Large industrial emitters with innovative ideas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save money are invited to apply for funding from [Read more]
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf. Source: PAcast. Pennsylvania MOU with Ohio, West Virgina re. petrochemical investment might be good idea for Alberta, British Columbia and West Coast LNG How can Albertans tell that the Alberta Energy [Read more]
US imports 5.5 Bcf/d of Canadian natural gas, expected to decline to ~5 Bcf/d (almost 10%) starting in 2019 Construction of more natural gas pipelines in northeast United States is bad news for Western Canadian [Read more]
Ministers Bilous and Schmidt, with the help of NAIT graduate Erin Wilson, Promethean Labs CEO Zachary Fritze and NAIT Productivity Enhancement Services Technology coordinator Neil Wenger, try controlling robots at NAIT during the Growth and [Read more]
Program includes $40-million fund income support to workers transitioning from thermal coal mines and coal-fired power plants to new jobs or retirement Alberta announced the distribution of funding for the coal communities that will be [Read more]
“As much as some pro-pipeline advocates want to hear politicians going to battle with opponents, voters would probably prefer that their politicians reduce rather than increase the drama.” – Anderson Sometime in the near future, [Read more]
Alberta Municipal Solar Program supported about 85 jobs since March 2016 according to Alberta Government The Alberta government announced it is helping support municipalities by investing in new programs that will save communities money and [Read more]
Alberta government will provide a payment and allow Enmax to transfer carbon offset credits The Government of Alberta and ENMAX have agreed to let the company withdraw from the Power Purchase Arrangement (PPA) legal action [Read more]
By Sara Hastings-Simon, Saeed Kaddoura, Mark Porter, Alexander Klonick As climate action and the commitment to hit our targets gains ground in Canada, including the federal government’s commitment to phase out coal, companies required to meet carbon [Read more]
If Rachel Notley wants to swell ranks of British Columbia pipeline opponents, she should keep borrowing dumb ideas from Jason Kenney Rachel Notley has one job: don’t take 50 per cent support in BC for [Read more]
Energy Diversification Act builds upon recommendations from recent Energy Diversification Advisory Committee report Premier Rachel Notley says the new Energy Diversification Act, which kicked off the spring session of the legislature, will attract billions of [Read more]
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