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1. Investment climate for B.C. energy sector remains dismal

   This year’s Global Petroleum Survey contains more bad news for the province of British Columbia. For the second straight year, B.C. is Canada’s least-attractive jurisdiction for oil and gas investment. And B.C.’s overall ranking remains ...

2. Keystone XL approval errs on side of safety

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, November 24, 2017 This week, state regulators in Nebraska approved the Keystone XL pipeline, ending nine years of regulatory and political limbo across multiple jurisdictions. TransCanada Corp can now build its pipeline. That ...

3. Trans Mountain pipeline—B.C.’s NDP government should put safety first

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, July 28, 2017 The last several weeks have seen new, if somewhat contradictory, developments on the Trans Mountain pipeline file. Kinder Morgan received approval last year to twin the existing Trans Mountain pipeline, ...

4. Safety First: Intermodal Safety for Oil and Gas Transportation

   A contentious road lies ahead for the construction of three recently approved oil pipelines (Trans Mountain, Line 3, and Keystone XL). Given continued opposition to oil and gas infrastructure, we have examined the latest data on the safety of oil and gas ...

5. Delaying pipeline projects leads to economic loss for Canadians

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, July 20, 2016 In a recently released study, we reviewed the economic consequences of insufficient pipeline capacity to ship western Canadian crude oil to refiners in the U.S. Gulf Coast and to ocean ports with access to ...

6. The Costs of Pipeline Obstructionism

   This paper reviews how Western Canadian oil producers are being con­strained by the inability to access new markets via ocean ports and how this constraint, along with the drop in oil prices, the Alberta ceiling on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in oil ...

7. Pipelines or Policies: What's Behind the Fall in Investor Confidence in Alberta?

   While an analysis of the share prices of firms show that savvy investors have already “priced in” many of the concerns about oil transport and access to outside markets, the Fraser Institute’s annual Global Petroleum Survey shows that investor confidence ...

8. Pipeline construction would boost government revenues

   Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, Kelowna Daily Courier, Vernon Daily Courier Discussions surrounding the need for new pipelines to transport Canada's oil to market have been a dominant economic, environmental, and political issue for ...

9. 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 ...

10. Intermodal safety in the transport of oil

    In the face of expanding production and pipeline bottlenecks, more oil is moving by rail in both Canada and the United States, but transport of oil by rail (or other non-pipeline transportation modes) carries its own set of risks. While pipelines may leak ...