Buying oil sands assets for $32 billion total makes CNRL, Cenovus world class energy companies Cenovus buys ConocoPhillips oil sands assets for $17.7 billion Wednesday. Last week CNRL buys Shell and Marathon assets for $14.4 [Read more]
Memo to Drew Barnes: Other provinces, US States, are listening…and Alberta needs their support So, Wildrose energy critic Drew Barnes helped fund a climate change-denying film. I’m not surprised because Barnes reflects the attitude of many [Read more]
Alberta oil sands not discriminated against by California Low Carbon Fuel Standards program It’s ironic that not far from Hollywood, and the residences of American film star eco-activists, sits the Placerita field, which produces the [Read more]
Alberta must never forget Obama’s rejection of Keystone XL that was mostly about climate politics In Monday’s column I argued that if newly chosen Alberta PC leader Jason Kenney becomes premier, he cannot return to the [Read more]
Kenney must come up with some way to retain oil sands’ political legitimacy if he wins in 2019 Let’s extend congratulations to Jason Kenney, crowned new leader of the PC party of Alberta this weekend. [Read more]
Trudeau understands emerging clean energy technologies will compete with fossil fuels for many decades Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave the most important speech of his political career Friday in Houston. He told more than a [Read more]
Alberta government, industry goal is to reduce oil sands GHG levels to that of conventional oil A common view in the Alberta oil patch is that the NDP are anti-oil sands and that eco-activist ideology is driving [Read more]
75% of oil production used to fuel transportation, but better Electric Vehicle batteries decades away Alberta, we need to talk. It’s time for you to confront the single greatest challenge of the 21st century: the [Read more]
Oil sands boosters are like Japanese nipponhei, loyally fighting long after the war is over Psst. Alberta oil sands boosters. Stop dissing Hanoi Jane. You’ve already won the bitumen and pipeline war, now you’re being an ungracious winner. [Read more]
Climate policies, including a carbon tax, are price Alberta oil producers pay for pipelines Reuters is reporting that confidence is low in the Canadian oil sands industry, supposedly because of market access issues (read, pipelines) and [Read more]
Social media controversy over Bernard the Roughneck appearance led to death threats, usual extreme language Ok, stop piling on Bernard the Roughneck. Yes, he really is a rig worker, not an actor, and putting a human [Read more]
Dear Oil Sands Boosters; You know who you are: Ezra Levant, Cody Battershill, Gwyn Morgan, Brett Wilson, Vivian Krause, Patrick Moore, Claudia Cattaneo, and the legion of Albertans who agree with you. I regularly read your [Read more]
Eco-activists, BC First Nations eroded NEB and industry legitimacy, which must now be restored before new pipelines are built Why is the idea of social license so important to the oil sands industry? Because the [Read more]
Oil sands producers will concentrate on expanding existing facilities, production to rise 1M b/d by 2025 – IHS Oil prices are near levels where Alberta oil sands operators will consider expanding production, according to presenters [Read more]
Social media comments suggesting Fort McMurray residents got what they deserved for supporting oil sands are despicable It happens every time: Natural disasters get used to score cheap political points. But is it fair to point out [Read more]
Many observers, including President Barack Obama, believe transition from Age of Fossil Fuels to Age of Clean Energy has already begun David Suzuki’s recent comments equating the Alberta oil and gas industry to American slavery [Read more]
Alberta’s new climate strategy goes much further than Obama – includes carbon tax, oil sands emissions cap Something momentous happened in Canada yesterday. No, it had nothing to do with hockey or moose. But it had [Read more]
Canada supplies 45% of American crude oil imports, forecast to increase in coming decades, even without Keystone XL Yesterday I wrote about how climate activist opposition to Keystone XL was part of a larger campaign [Read more]
New governments in Alberta and Ottawa will cut energy-based GHG emissions in return for pipelines, market access Let’s get one thing straight: President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline is not about facts or [Read more]
Tim Hortons fiasco illustrates how debased the Great Energy Debate has become The greatest challenge facing humankind – the Great Energy Debate about the evolution of the global economy – has been reduced to this: Where are you [Read more]
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