Also in this brief: Canada’s uncertain role in the global LNG market, TransAlta says Rona Ambrose will help it become Canada’s “leading clean power company” Pat Carlson, founder of innovative natural gas producer Seven Generations Energy, tells Bloomberg that the Canadian industry should stop blaming “environmentalists, First Nation communities or the government for its failure to get LNG export […]
Canadians won’t change their lifestyles to reduce GHG emissions, curtailing options to meet Paris climate commitments A study from Sweden’s Lund University got a lot of play in the Canadian media last week because it proposed four “simple” things consumers can do to become climate change warriors and significantly reduce their individual carbon footprint. But
Give up meat, cars, plane travel, more kids? No thanks, say Canadians Read More »
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
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Also in this brief: Cenovus looks outside for CEO to replace to Brian Ferguson, Pengrowth sells Olds/Garrington area assets for $300 million Inventys, the developer of the VeloxoTherm™ System, a carbon dioxide (CO2) capture process, says it has raised $10 million of equity financing, with Husky Energy as lead investor. The money will fund a 30-tonne per day
A few weeks or days before pipeline construction begins is too late to be talking up Climate Leadership Plan in Vancouver The Alberta oil and gas industry talks a lot about the cost of the Climate Leadership Plan, which is fair enough with Western Canada Select hovering below $39USD a barrel. But what of the
How Alberta, industry are about to waste the PR value of the Climate Leadership Plan Read More »
Also in this brief: US ethanol production continues to grow, Global rig counts all up in June says Baker Hughes BP’s offshore Gulf Coast development Mad Dog phase two will be profitable even at $40/b oil Seven years after the disastrous Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is spending billions every
Also in this brief: Veresen merges with Pembina Pipeline Corporation, Canada is a net energy exporter Calgary-based Seven Generations Energy Ltd. says it ended the first half of 2017 with record production volumes, demonstrating the underlying strength and long-term potential of the company’s liquids-rich Montney assets. Seven Generations’ Q2 production averaged approximately 164,000 boe/d, while June’s production is estimated
With minority BC NDP government set to take power, Notley must lead fight to defend Trans Mountain Expansion After a shaky start to her campaign to support Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline when it begins construction this fall, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley got it right in a speech to the Stampede Investment Forum in Calgary on Tuesday,
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EV analyst Chris Robinson cautions that Tesla Model 3 not yet a tipping point for EV market, industry The long awaited first Tesla Model 3 – a sleek black four door gifted to CEO Elon Musk by a board member – hit the streets of California Monday and immediately became a social media sensation. The $35,000USD
Also in this brief: Wireless sensing energizes oil/gas pipeline monitoring, Alberta engineering sector begins recovering in 2017 Lithium from SADG wastewater process pilot plant completed in Alberta MGX Minerals Inc. – a Canadian company with a patent to extract lithium from SAGD (steam assisted gravity drainage, used in oil sands production) wastewater – has completed an operating
