Tag: Brian Jean
Brian Jean’s ‘energy literacy’ education policy smacks of 1950s Alberta
Only 18% of Canadians trust oil/gas industry, 21% have a favourable view of sector Brian Jean, who is campaigning to be the first leader of the United Conservative Party in Alberta, wants to add energy literacy to the provincial education curriculum. He thinks students should be taught about the wonders of petroleum. Bad policy idea, […]
Jason Kenney threatens trade war with BC over Trans Mountain…whose interests is he serving?
Threats to retaliate against BC if Horgan government inhibits pipeline progress benefits Kenney, but may harm Kinder Morgan’s construction efforts Erik Wiik is an early-30s engineer who owns a Vancouver-based small business – exactly the kind of lower mainland voter whose support Alberta needs to cultivate in the great pipeline debate. But Jason Kenney and […]
Oil sands players back Notley’s energy/climate policies – sticky politics for new conservative party?
Oil sands players believe Climate Leadership Plan will help them lower production costs, crude oil carbon-intensity This weekend members of the Wildrose Party and the PC Assoc. of Alberta are deciding if they want to merge into a United Conservative Party. If the merger goes ahead, the new party will eventually generate a policy platform. […]
Brian Jean stoking resentment of Alberta in other provinces for his own political gain
Jean deceives Albertans by distorting province’s contribution, role in equalization program “Hostility is not a good political strategy,” is how Calgary communications expert Doug Lacombe described an oil and gas industry attempt in 2015 to tie equalization payments to pipeline approvals. Someone needs to tell Wildrose leader Brian Jean – who is busy making the […]
What can technology adoption theory tell us about United Conservative Party energy politics?
PC members appear to be Early to Late Majority Adopters, Wildrose are Laggards. Can they get along in the United Conservative Party? The Wildrose Party and PCs agreed Thursday to create a new political organization – the United Conservative Party (UCP) – they hope will bring down the Rachel Notley NDP in 2019. Energy and climate policies will […]
Dave Collyer explains why Alberta oil/gas must join global consensus on climate change
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 the Canadian Assoc. of Petroleum Producers, begins our interview. Collyer is a bit of a maverick in politically insular Alberta, […]
Trump can’t revive coal – and neither can Brian Jean or Jason Kenney
American experience with coal illustrates that carbon reduction, energy competitiveness go hand in hand Brian Jean probably thought Donald Trump was a gift from Heaven back in Nov. Trump promised on the campaign trail to abandon the Democratic “war on coal” and erase the regulatory burden on US oil and gas producers. The Wildrose leader immediately hitched […]
Trudeau govt change to Canadian Exploration Expense is bad news for oil patch
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley should spend political capital with PM Justin Trudeau to reverse Canadian Exploration Expense change Big Oil is everyone’s favourite punching bag, but when they’re right, they’re right. And this time they’re right about changes in the federal budget to the Canadian Exploration Expense that will make it more difficult Alberta for exploration and production […]
The political calculations of the Alberta carbon tax
Do carbon tax + climate policies + pipeline approvals = Notley NDP pathway to 2019 election success? A key characteristic of Rachel Notley’s deeply unpopular carbon tax is being ignored: while the prevailing wisdom is that Alberta hates it and she will pay at the polls in 2019, it may turn out to be the wedge issue that […]
Ezra Levant organizes a carbon tax rally that turns really, really weird
Levant accuses AFL head of having an Ashley Madison account and a progressive blogger of planting fake offensive signs, while Bernard the Roughneck throws his shoes at the Legislature Disgruntled Albertans gathered at the Legislature Saturday afternoon to protest the Rachel Notley government’s soon to be implemented carbon tax…and then things turned weird. They were so […]
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