Current crop of leaders making strategic mistakes that will lead to opposite outcomes Alberta needs The Alberta oil and gas industry has a fundamental strategy problem: it’s misaligned with the major energy trends of the [Read more]
Source: ARC Financial Institute Demand for Alberta heavy crude oil is growing at the very time pipeline projects have been delayed In any war, truth is one of the earliest casualties, and it’s no different [Read more]
Canadians support a balanced, pragmatic approach to new pipelines – not Canada Action’s shrill tub thumping Jonathan Teghtmeyer points out that Alberta teachers are informed, discerning folks quite capable of hearing both sides of a [Read more]
From left to right: Derek Corrigan, Rachel Notley, Amarjeet Sohi Only real legal threat to Trans Mountain Expansion is Federal Court of Appeals review spearheaded by coastal First Nations The City of Burnaby has lost another legal [Read more]
Amarjeet Sohi, new federal natural resources minister from Edmonton Zoe Caron formerly worked under Gerry Butts in WWF Canada, is prominent environmentalist Canada has a new minister responsible for energy infrastructure – read, pipelines – [Read more]
‘Canada’s Folly’ is important not because it’s accurate, but because this is increasingly how investors outside Canada view industry, government policy Is the Canadian government’s purchase of West Coast pipeline assets from Kinder Morgan Canada “a [Read more]
Dr. David Suzuki. Photo: CBC Energy dilemma: to reduce oil consumption requires cheap, longer-range EVs but battery science is decade or two from delivering David Suzuki is complaining “how difficult it is to have an [Read more]
First Nations court challenges to pipelines have same characteristic: consultation was “inadequate.” But what does inadequate mean? By Sue L. Blanchard, special to Energi News Veteran pipeline executive Dennis McConaghy told a Global Petroleum Show [Read more]
Prof. Dwight Newman appearing before the Senate on May 8 Contrary to Jason Kenney claims, invoking declaratory powers would be a minor clarification, assertion of federal authority over inter-provincial pipelines For weeks now, Jason Kenney [Read more]
Calvin Helin, Eagle Spirit Energy. Photo: Reuters Potential 4.7 million b/d of new oil sands supply + northern infrastructure corridor to BC coast + indigenous ownership = 10 new pipelines by 2038 As Kinder Morgan’s [Read more]
Only 8 days to Kinder Morgan deadline, Notley “reasonably confident” deal will be struck to save Trans Mountain Expansion “On one hand, they don’t want our oil and on the other hand, they’re suing us [Read more]
Finance Minister Bill Morneau during Wed. press conference. How will Canada decide what are unconstitutional actions by BC if courts haven’t yet ruled on reference question about restricting dilbit shipments within British Columbia? – Young, [Read more]
Canada’s Finance Minister Bill Morneau blamed the government of British Columbia for the delay in the construction of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Reuters photo by Chris Wattie. Kinder Morgan stopped non-essential work [Read more]
“This campaign is coming to the party quite late. It would have been good to be persuading people some time ago.” – Lacombe Alberta spending $700,000 on a pro-Trans Mountain Expansion advertising campaign in British [Read more]
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson Survey data show Canadians, BCers favour compromise that acts on climate/environment while allowing natural resource development Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and opponents of the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline – including NDP [Read more]
Vancouver anti-pipeline “analysis” dominated by muckraking fabulists immune to facts, evidence, expert opinion Most British Columbians will no doubt agree that to understand the complexity of an oil pipeline business model, say, one asks an [Read more]
Scientists say dilbit floats, enough science to craft adequate spill response…why isn’t message getting through to BC? BC Premier John Horgan and his eco-activist and coastal First Nation supporters will be annoyed with a new [Read more]
When Notley banned BC wines from Alberta, Horgan declared April to be BC Wine Month and turned the fight with Alberta into a political advantage BC is properly processing Kinder Morgan permits, referring disputed issues [Read more]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (middle) Trudeau can buy off opponents or run roughshod over them or actively negotiate a middle ground that benefits BC, Alberta, and Canada When Justin Trudeau said Canada needs “wind turbines [Read more]
“It became clear, through listening to legal advice, that we did not have the authority to stop a project that had been approved by the federal government…” – Heyman Thanks to George Heyman, we now [Read more]
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