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New methane emissions regulation smart policy and politics for Ottawa, industry

May 29, 2017 JZadmin

Methane emissions regulations will be coordinated with provinces like Alberta to avoid duplication, unnecessary cost The Canadian environment department has issued new regulations to curb methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to [Read more]

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British Columbia LNG falling further and further behind USA in race to Asia

May 26, 2017 JZadmin

Economist Michal C. Moore says Canada must overcome huge internal challenges before competing against American LNG in China American President Donald Trump recently completed a charm tour of China that included the Chinese signing long-term liquified [Read more]

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Dave Collyer explains why Alberta oil/gas must join global consensus on climate change

May 15, 2017 JZadmin

Part 1 of a fascinating interview with Dave Collyer, who has sobering advice for Alberta oil/gas industry “When it comes to carbon, the horse has bolted the barn.” That’s how Dave Collyer, former president of [Read more]

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Alberta oil and gas juniors evolving as markets, technologies change

May 7, 2017 JZadmin

Juniors will be be larger, better capitalized, only working in very best production areas – Gary Leach, EPAC CEO Like everyone else in the global oil patch, Canadian oil and gas juniors have had a [Read more]

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Alberta banks weather oil patch downturn much better than expected

May 7, 2017 JZadmin

“After banks and investors are satisfied, they might have some revenue to start hiring people.” – Mark Salkeld, PSAC The past two years have been rough for Alberta, with oil prices in the tank and [Read more]

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Christy Clark vows to nix Vancouver natural gas “ban”

April 30, 2017 JZadmin

Is Vancouver moving too quickly on 100% renewable energy pledge? Vancouver adopted a Zero Emissions Building Plan last July to “to aggressively combat and reduce carbon pollution” in the city’s building stock. Christy Clark says that [Read more]

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You’ll be SHOCKED (not really) by the real reason ConocoPhillips “fled” Alberta

April 14, 2017 JZadmin

Conoco’s sale of oil sands, natural gas assets to Cenovus motivated by business concerns, not policy A few weeks ago I wrote a column about how the purchase of $32 billion in oil sands assets [Read more]

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CAPP unleashes PR popgun when it really needs cannons

March 27, 2017 JZadmin

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) should get down in trenches with Big Green opponents This is a long read, but an important one because I’ve tried to explain why the Canadian oil and gas [Read more]

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Trump handcuffed by energy and climate jurisdiction, long-term trends

March 5, 2017 JZadmin

Primary energy regulation by states, industry already adopting cleaner, more efficient technologies While President Donald Trump continues to suck the oxygen from news cycles with controversy after scandal after midnight twitter war, the American oil [Read more]

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Obama’s energy legacy a lesson in constraints of activist policy making

November 2, 2016 JZadmin

$250 billion/year oil and gas contribution to GDP, immature clean energy tech were real obstacles to Obama energy activism With Barack Obama headed out of the White House in a few months, the punditocracy is [Read more]

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Looming Clinton win suggests American oil and gas sector needs to rethink politics, narrative

October 23, 2016 JZadmin

Bernie Sanders, eco-activists would exert considerable influence in a Clinton Administration, Democratic Congress The American oil and gas industry supports Donald Trump in part because the Republican candidate promises to get the sector out from [Read more]

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Making sense of American, Canadian energy and climate politics

October 10, 2016 JZadmin

Cautious governments advancing climate mitigation energy policies, hectored by eco-activists to go quicker and by industry boosters to go slower Understanding modern energy politics is like trying to get a handle on Middle East politics – definitely [Read more]

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Pacific NorthWest LNG just the start of Canadian energy project approvals

October 3, 2016 JZadmin

Expect many more energy projects like Pacific NorthWest LNG in coming years as governments balance decarbonizing, economic development On Tuesday, the Canadian government approved Malaysian-owned Petronas’ $36 billion Pacific NorthWest LNG project, environmentalists pitched a fit, industry boosters [Read more]

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The sad tale of George Monbiot and climate ‘journalism’ gone horribly wrong

September 2, 2016 JZadmin

The energy transition has begun. Resistance is futile. So is half-baked carping by climate journalists Last month, influential British journalist George Monbiot published a criticism of the media’s role in the global “climate crisis” that illustrates why [Read more]

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It’s official: Shell CEO says global economy has started ‘energy transition’

August 31, 2016 JZadmin

Big Energy must stake its claim to manage the energy transition, not leave it to eco-activists I’ve taken plenty of heat lately from fossil fuels boosters who disagree the global economy has begun a 100-year [Read more]

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Doug Lacombe: There is a better way for oil/gas and pipeline companies to communicate

August 17, 2016 JZadmin

Energy industry has to woo “soft political middle” so Trudeau Liberals have enough “legitimacy” to approve pipelines I got myself in hot water with a couple of columns lately. One argued that oil and gas [Read more]

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Science finally proves just how badly energy CEOs (and boosters) suck at politics, communications

August 16, 2016 JZadmin

Emotional connection is the new norm, energy industry’s old facts and science approach no longer connects with stakeholders If the Dilbert comic strip taught us anything, it’s that engineers are socially awkward and terrible communicators. Now [Read more]

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State of the oil patch: It ain’t pretty in the Barnett Shale, but future looks better

August 16, 2016 JZadmin

Peak tight gas production in Barnett Shale is 5 Bcf/d, down to 4.5 Bcf under current conditions Global shale natural gas production will rise by 400 per cent over the next 25 years, but that’s [Read more]

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Can 66 Tcf of Mancos Shale natural gas power a Western US manufacturing Renaissance?

June 18, 2016 JZadmin

Industry concerned federal regulations stifling natural gas production, manufacturing opportunities in Mancos Shale Now that natural gas reserve estimates for the Mancos Shale in the Piceance Basin of Colorado have been revised dramatically upwards to 66 trillion cubic [Read more]

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Donald Trump finally addresses American energy policy…and it’s not all bad

May 26, 2016 JZadmin

Expect more moderation once Trump sews up the nomination and begins the general election campaign Donald Trump delivered the first energy policy speech since he began running for the Republican nomination. The biggest surprise is [Read more]

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