Here are two interviews addressing recent political developments surrounding Canada’s future use of fossil fuels — the Energy East Pipeline and the Trudeau government’s ambition to eliminate coal power in Canada.
Manitoba Hydro, which provides natural gas distribution service in that province, is reporting that approximately 4,000 customers in a cluster of rural municipalities south of Winnipeg toward the border with Minnesota are without gas supply. The outage is the result of a dramatic explosion early yesterday of a very large natural gas pipeline linking TransCanada’s …
Here is my column in today’s National Post challenging the government of Newfoundland & Labrador to clean up its wasteful energy resource practices.
Marking a major schism in the green energy movement in Canada, the Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) has come out in support of Enbridge’s proposal to rereverse the direction of the oil pipeline, Line 9, between Montreal and Sarnia.
Steven Harper’s government, hellbent on developing Canada as an energy superpower, also harbours a conviction that energy regulation is nothing but counterproductive red tape to be shuffled off to the side. As we saw with his treatment of Linda Keen, head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, in 2007, Harper is blind to promoting solid …
Alberta’s oil is selling these days at a discount to mid-continent oil (North Dakota, Colorado etc.), which is selling at a discount to oil West Texas Intermediate, which is selling at a discount to North Sea Brent. The inability of Alberta producers to get close to world price for their oil has turned out to …
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The successes of the natural gas market in North America are driving major changes in the energy business. The impact of the gas revolution on the electric power industry gets a great deal of attention. One impact is to contributed to the ongoing decline in electricity prices in the US. Here are a few news articles …
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Particularly for those concerned that peak oil constitutes a major near-term concern, let me recommend a couple of items to consider.
Brazil has announced that it will reduce the requirement for ethanol in road fuel. The ethanol yield per hectare in Brazil is in the order of 6 to 10 times the ethanol yield per hectare in Canada. Canadian governments should be following the Brazilian example.
Here are three technologies that will significantly impact world oil markets.