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Canada will probably win legal fight with BC over Trans Mountain Expansion, but at what cost?

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Federal government enjoys exclusive constitutional jurisdiction over inter-provincial pipelines, can over-ride Province, municipalities on Trans Mountain Expansion permitting British Columbia’s strategy of delaying permits for the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline may be working. Project proponent Kinder Morgan says that it is pushing back the start of construction nine months and if there is further “regulatory uncertainty,” […]

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Trudeau gov’t supports Trans Mountain appeal to NEB

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Trans Mountain appealed to NEB over local permits for project Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, Jim Carr released a statement Wednesday supporting Kinder Morgan’s appeal to the National Energy Board over obtaining local permits required for construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion. “The Government has taken an important step to ensure that when a

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A message for Trudeau’s ‘Generation Energy’ conversation: Don’t kneecap $15 billion pipelines to get re-elected

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Nanos polls shows many Canadians think Canada does a poor job regulating energy, providing right environment for investors Generation Energy wrapped up this week in Winnipeg. The federal government leading a national conversation about the future of energy seems like a fine idea. But is it, really? The Trudeau Liberals already have a well-defined worldview

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Why did TransCanada cancel $12 billion Energy East pipeline project?

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Reasons include Canadian regulatory uncertainty, changed economics, opposition in Quebec and from First Nations Canadians outside the Wildrose Province may be shocked to learn just how angry Albertans are about TransCanada’s decision to cancel the Energy East pipeline project. Our Alberta readers are fuming – and they’re not shy about telling me why on social

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Trudeau Govt should rethink message on downstream GHG emissions and Energy East before serious damage is done

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Trudeau Liberals appear to be willing to sacrifice Energy East for Quebec seats in 2019…a dangerous message to investors in Canadian resource development One of the things I like most about the Trudeau Liberals is that they are treacherous bastards. Like every Liberal government of my lifetime, they play to win. That bred-in-the-bone treachery will absolutely

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NEB ‘modernization’ – not just low oil prices, opposition – makes TransCanada skittish, say experts

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Regulator change creates uncertainty, which combines with low oil prices, higher gas prices, politics to make TransCanada slow down on Energy East pipeline The National Energy Board has granted TransCanada’s request for a 30-day suspension of the review for the Energy East and Eastern Mainline pipelines. Some critics of the Trudeau Government’s “modernization” of the

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Podcast: Former pipeline VP Dennis McConaghy says Trudeau botching energy regulation reform

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Link to Markham On Energy podcast at the bottom of story Dennis McConaghy is a former Canadian oil and gas executive, a veteran of the Alberta oil patch, and a convert to the “progressive view” of the energy industry. By progressive, I mean that he accepts climate science, understands that the global consensus around climate

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Jim Carr encourages Chinese investment in Canadian oilsands

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Oilsands home to world’s third-largest crude reserves While on a five-day trip to China, Canada’s Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr is inviting Chinese investment to the Canadian oilsands, home to the world’s third-largest crude reserves. In recent months, Royal Dutch Shell and ConocoPhillips have sold off billions in assets to Canadian producers.  Shell began selling of a

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Decarbonizing Canadian economy by 2050 a foolish academic exercise

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Re-Energizing Canada: Pathways to a Low-Carbon Future proposes aggressive govt intervention to support decarbonization Did your mother ever remind you that “the Devil is in the details”? Someone’s mother should recall that aphorism for the 80-plus Canadian academics who recently released a new study calling for complete decarbonization of the national economy by 2050. The reason decarbonization

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3-year timeline for pipeline reviews, more public and indigenous input – NEB modernization report

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Expert panel recommendations are top to bottom reworking of energy infrastructure assessment process After years of complaints from First Nations and eco-activists that the National Energy Board was biased toward the energy industry, the Canadian government released an expert panel report Monday designed to “modernize” the national energy regulator. The oil and gas industry has

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