January 2016

Nenshi, Iveson should shut up, take their cue from Notley on Energy East

Markham on Energy

Polarized debates around other important pipeline projects led to defeat. Lesson? Don’t polarize Energy East debte Have Alberta mayors learned nothing from the debacle that is the BC pipeline debate? Or the equally humiliating debacle of Keystone XL that ended with President Obama rejecting the Canadian proposal outright? Yet, earlier this week, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi […]

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Energy storage for solar systems will be $8 billion global market in 2026

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Energy storage, combined with falling distributed solar power costs, will accelerate adoption of solar in coming years Energy storage systems for distributed solar are gaining market traction and should be worth $8 billion in 2026, according to a new study from Lux Research. Solar-plus-storage is key for solar to overcome limitations like intermittency and the lack

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Midland, Texas-based advertising sales person wanted for energy news site

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North American Energy News is ready to grab another gear, maybe two. We spent the past year developing a readership of 30,000 to 50,000/month of professional oil and gas readers, most of them in Texas Permian Basin and Midland area. And we’ve developed a great premium advertising product. You can check out examples of Midland-based

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Is Notley NDP the most pro-Big Oil government in Alberta history?

Markham on Energy

The Notley evidence: Favourable royalty review, climate change policies designed to increase oil sands market access, pipeline coalition building Back in May, I wrote a column about the Alberta oil and gas royalty review that still makes a lot of sense in light of today’s report by the review commission. The column quoted Gordon Sick, professor of finance

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Baker Hughes sees big drop in 2015 North American revenue

Energy Financial

Baker Hughes revenue for 2015 was $15.7 billion, down $8.8 billion compared to$24.6 billion for 2014 HOUSTON, Texas – Baker Hughes, soon to be merged with oil services giant Halliburton, is reporting a profit despite the challenging global price environment, the company reported last week. “Our 2015 results are reflective of an extremely difficult and increasingly

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