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  1. Keystone XL—perhaps Canada’s last great pipeline project

    Appeared in the Calgary Sun, January 27, 2021 The Biden administration’s long-anticipated termination of the Keystone XL pipeline project puts the cap on what may become the definitive icon of environmental project killing. Much has already been written, ...

  2. Canada's dashed 'energy superpower' dream

    Appeared in the Calgary Sun, January 9, 2019 As I was doing my year-end filing, I came upon some older studies from 2013, and as I leafed through them, was amazed at how things have changed. In 2013, the conversation in Alberta was about Canada’s future ...

  3. Activist ‘wall’ thwarting oil exports to countries other than the U.S.

    Appeared in the Red Deer Express, November 23, 2018 President Trump of course wants to build a wall across the U.S. southern border. Progressives (and some conservatives) have largely stymied President Trump on getting his wall built. Ironically, however, ...

  4. Reality check—Canada’s need for new pipelines is critical

    Appeared in the Calgary Sun, March 31, 2018 In recent months, Canadian crude oil prices have dropped relative to other international benchmark prices, costing the economy billions in foregone revenues. The recent surge in the Western Canada Select (WCS) ...

  5. Canada’s energy sector gets some gifts (and a lump of coal) in 2017

    Canada’s energy economy received several gifts in time for this holiday season. Some were good, some were, well, not so good. One of the gifts was from the National Energy Board, which finally exerted its federal authority to approve ...

  6. Trump plays trump on Keystone XL pipeline

    Today, on President Trump’s second full weekday in office, he once again showed that what he talked about on the campaign trail was not idle chit-chat. According to news reports, Mr. Trump signed five Executive Orders today involving ...

  7. Prime Minister Trudeau emphasizes transport safety, environmental stewardship while greenlighting pipeline projects

    Yesterday the federal government approved two important infrastructure projects—the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and Enbridge’s Line 3 replacement—which will provide Canada with nearly one million barrels per day of additional ...

  8. ‘Better deals’ on pipelines will not make America rich again, Mr. Trump

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, June 11, 2016 From a Canadian perspective, Donald Trump’s recent energy policy speech was both interesting and troubling. On one hand, Mr. Trump’s commitment to approve the Keystone XL pipeline—a key piece of continental ...

  9. TransCanada lawsuit spotlights weak climate change connection to Keystone

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, January 9, 2016 The Keystone XL saga has taken a new twist in the New Year. On Jan. 6, TransCanada (the company that would have built and operated the Alberta to Texas pipeline) launched two lawsuits over President Obama’s ...

  10. Climate change was a weak reason to reject Keystone

    On Wednesday, TransCanada, the company that would have built and operated the Keystone XL pipeline, launched two lawsuits over President Obama’s rejection of the pipeline in November. One of lawsuits seeks damages of more than US$15 ...