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New Brunswick derailment highlights rail vs pipeline tradeoffs
Yet another train derailment involving petroleum products has re-invigorated the debate over how we transport oil in Canada. In this case, 17 cars on a train near Plaster Rock, New Brunswick, derailed; nine of which carried dangerous goods including ...
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Rescue Canada's poorest provincial economies: Allow fracking
Appeared in the National Post The recent native protests in New Brunswick against proposed hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') are not only devoid of facts but harm the potential for prosperity and lower personal taxes. Add in the anti-fracking ...
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Pensions and governments both hurting from Canada's inability to ship oil to market
Appeared in Huffington Post As almost everyone knows by now, Canada has some interesting challenges looming when it comes to transporting increasing oil production to markets both inside and outside of Canada. What many Canadians might not realize is how ...
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Not a superpower but Canada on the brink of becoming energy superproducer
Appeared in the Guelph Mercury, Hamilton Spectator, Stratford Beacon Herald and Winnipeg Free Press In a speech to the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce in London on July 14, 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper referred to Canada as the emerging energy ...