A still image from video posted to Facebook by user Uni Urchin and confirmed by RCMP shows an officer starting to chase after a demonstrator in Burnaby, B.C. on Sunday, March 25, 2018. Source: BC CTV. RCMP should press charges against demonstrators who obstructed officer’s arrest of man for mischief It was inevitable. Now that […]
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Mobility as a Service won’t really arrive until 2030 and become a mature business model until 2050 The hype around autonomous electric vehicles (AEV) is out of control, much of it led by Elon Musk, the visionary CEO of Tesla Motors, who has claimed that existing EVs will become fully autonomous with just a software
Podcast: Don’t believe Elon Musk’s hype about autonomous driving EVs Read More »
NDP policy lines up Albert with emerging Asian markets, UCP approach with existing customers in Texas, Midwest Yesterday morning I wrote about the carbon tax debate in Alberta, pointing out that Jason Kenney and the UCP were kicking the political stuffing out of Rachel Notley and the NDP on this issue. An afternoon interview with
New Alberta government carbon tax message: Asia is the future, China and India price carbon, the customer is always right Alberta’s carbon tax rose from $20 to $30 a tonne Jan. 1, setting off another political clash between the ruling NDP and Jason Kenney, one that will dominate political discourse until the provincial election in
Notley govt not selling carbon tax as well as Kenney is opposing it Read More »
Clean Fuel Standard will be technology-neutral, companies can comply in way that suits them best By Bora Plumptre, Pembina Institute The forthcoming clean fuel standard is the single largest piece of the mitigation effort being taken to achieve Canada’s climate target under the Paris Agreement. Remarkably, by 2030, the federal government expects the policy will reduce
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Belief in Big Oil “deep state” treads dangerously close to conspiracy theory Has Big Oil subverted democracy and installed a polite version of the “deep state” – a state within a state intended to further industry’s interests at the expense of pubic interests – in Canada? Are public institutions in Alberta “captured” by the Petroleum
NEB cites desire to finish detail route hearings in March before ruling on tunnel portal construction The National Energy Board has denied an early start to construction of the entry and exit portals of the underground tunnel through Burnaby Mountain that is part of the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline project, the federal regulator announced Friday.
Phasing out subsidies means a better allocation of resources across the energy system By Toshiyuki Shirai and Zakia Adam, International Energy Agency Getting energy prices right is critical for sound policymaking. But because of government energy subsidies prices that consumers pay in many countries are often well below their real market value, let alone the price that would
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Nuclear power supplied an average of 14.7% of electricity from 2005 to 2016, 2nd largest source of total generation Canada’s non-hydro renewable power capacity grew by more than eight per cent in 2016, adding nearly 1,300 megawatts (MW) of solar, biomass and wind-generated power, according to the National Energy Board’s update of the Canada’s Renewable Power Landscape
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Salkeld provided effective leadership as Canadian industry begins grappling with technology-driven changes to its business model Mark Salkeld is preparing to leave his job in mid-March as head of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada. Who will the PSAC board choose as his successor? Will it be a conservative with instructions to push back hard against
Time for oilfield services assoc. to choose progressive CEO as Salkeld retires Read More »
