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1. Government policies deterring investment in Canada

   Kinder Morgan’s announcement that it will halt “all non-essential activities and related spending on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project” could prove disastrous to Canada for many reasons. If the $7.4 billion Edmonton-Burnaby pipeline ...

2. 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 ...

3. Canada needs the Trans Mountain pipeline to access growing Asian markets

   Yesterday, only 11 days into the new year, the British Columbia government approved the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The approval comes after the federal government gave its consent to the project at the end of last year. The ...

4. New climate tests for pipelines are unnecessary

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, January 30, 2016 The federal government is about to roll out new regulatory requirements for Canada’s energy industry. The new rules will require the environmental reviews of pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals ...

5. What Ever Happened to Safety First

   Appeared in the Washington Times, Aug 19, 2015 Debates over oil pipelines seem to be never-ending. The quintessential example being that of the Keystone XL pipeline, which has languished in regulatory limbo for more than 2,500 days. It appears that this ...

6. Safety in the Transportation of Oil and Gas: Pipelines or Rail?

   Transporting oil and gas by pipeline or rail is in general quite safe. But when the safety of transporting oil and gas by pipelines and rail is compared, taking into consideration the amount of product moved, pipelines are found to be the much safer ...

7. Canada’s pipeline debate needs reality check

   Appeared in the Edmonton Journal It’s been a difficult couple of weeks for Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. The Santa Barbara oil spill has irritated already-sensitive public concern about oil pipelines. And as the ...

8. Safer rail transport still can’t compete with pipeline safety

   Appeared in the National Post On May 1, 2015, an interesting thing happened. The United States and Canada came to agreement about transporting oil and other flammable liquids. No, they did not agree to build more pipelines—rather, they agreed to implement ...