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Dakota Access grass fire could turn into American oil/gas industry inferno

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Canadian First Nations have caused Canadian energy projects to be significantly delayed – in a few cases, maybe cancelled Indigenous peoples’ opposition to pipelines has been a huge issue in Canada, and could become one in the United States if the Dakota Access pipeline protest by Native Americans isn’t handled more diplomatically. The Standing Rock Sioux […]

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Apache’s huge West Texas oil, gas find looks to be uneconomic for awhile – economist

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South Delaware Basin short on oil and gas infrastructure, including pipeline capacity Yesterday’s announcement that Apache Corp. has discovered a three billion barrel oil field in the South Delaware Basin has many West Texans celebrating, but energy economist Ed Hirs suggests the champagne be put on hold for the time being. Apache’s find is, indeed,

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Equalization payments for pipelines? PSAC’s plan is flawed in so many ways

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Equalization payments for pipelines is unconstitutional, poor way to stimulate Canadian debate Mark Salkeld is basking in oil and gas industry approval for his recent media comments about linking Eastern Canada equalization payments and pipelines approvals. He shouldn’t be. The strategy is wrong-headed and ultimately harmful to industry’s own interests. Salkeld is the CEO of

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State of the oil patch: Permian Basin slowly ramping up for takeoff in 2017

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Experts expect to see more E&P, service company bankruptcies before next boom starts Despite oil prices hovering in the mid-$40 range, the Permian Basin industry is shaking off two years of hibernation and readying itself for another upturn. The pace of activity has picked up noticeably of late. Apache announced on Wednesday a huge new

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The sad tale of George Monbiot and climate ‘journalism’ gone horribly wrong

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The energy transition has begun. Resistance is futile. So is half-baked carping by climate journalists Last month, influential British journalist George Monbiot published a criticism of the media’s role in the global “climate crisis” that illustrates why climate radicals should just shut up already. Monbiot – and the salon-bred intellectuals like him who populate the environmental movement

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Stop saying climate policies supposed to grant ‘social license’ for Energy East pipeline

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Neither industry nor government has ever said climate policies were quid pro quo for pipeline social license Judging by the hysteria surrounding the arrest of a few protestors at Monday’s Energy East hearings in Montreal, Canadian pipeline boosters have completely missed the point of social license, which is why we should stop listening to them. Here are

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It’s official: Shell CEO says global economy has started ‘energy transition’

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Big Energy must stake its claim to manage the energy transition, not leave it to eco-activists I’ve taken plenty of heat lately from fossil fuels boosters who disagree the global economy has begun a 100-year transition to clean energy technology. Well, perhaps the boosters will believe Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden, who gave a

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Waste Heat Challenge example of how Alberta oil sands will lick GHG emissions issue

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Technology competitions like Waste Heat Challenge are terrific policy for stimulating technical innovation When Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced her climate change policies last Nov., energy industry leaders promised they would “take the carbon out of the barrel,” which is not coincidentally is the goal of a new competition, the “COSIA-ARCTIC Waste Heat Challenge.” Unless you’re

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US Election 2016: Obama tap dances on energy, while Clinton’s got two left feet

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Hillary Clinton can’t – or won’t – distance herself from anti-fossil fuel movement “Keep it in the ground” The US Chamber of Commerce has waded into the election campaign with the release of a report that accuses Hillary Clinton of supporting the “Keep it in the ground” movement, in the process exposing a key political

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US, Canadian governments wasting tax dollars on immature electric vehicles

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California has only 223,700 electrics and plug-in hybrids. Vancouver, BC has far more Ferraris, Lamborghinis. etc. than EVs California will fail to meet its goal of 1.5 million electric vehicles by 2025 in Hollywood blockbuster fashion, according to a recent report from the Natural Resource Defense Council. That failure should be a warning to other

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