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1. Death of Keystone increases risk to people and the environment

   Oil moved by rail is 4.5 times more likely to experience some kind of accident in transit than oil moved by pipeline. ...

2. 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, ...

3. Government sits idle as pipeline obstructionists wage war

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Sun, September 11, 2019 Once again, a small group of anti-pipeline activists have thrown another roadblock at the proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion. Lest anyone has been living in a cave or out of the country for a few ...

4. Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion back on track

   As researchers at the Fraser Institute have shown, Canada has paid a steep price due to constraints in our ability to transport oil to better paying markets: In October 2018, Canadian heavy crude (WCS) traded at about 40 per cent of the U ...

5. Energy industry losing billions while Ottawa twiddles its thumbs

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, May 1, 2019 Way back in 2016, researchers at the Fraser Institute first set out to measure the costs Canada incurs due to insufficient pipeline capacity and access to more lucrative foreign markets. They found that higher ...

6. Canada's growing regulatory morass

   Writing in the Financial Post, Geoffrey Morgan highlights a stark dichotomy between Canada and the United States in getting pipelines approved: “As Canada dithered, America signed off on 3 oil pipelines to carry 2.4 million barrels a day” ...

7. Latest Trans Mountain greenlight unlikely to end pipeline paralysis

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, February 27, 2019 Canada should celebrate the recent decision of the National Energy Board to recommend approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, with its promise of jobs and economic benefits. According to Natural ...

8. Notley's late (and little) holiday gift for Alberta

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, December 19, 2018 After a first ministers meeting where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had to be cajoled and threatened with a boycotting minister to get important energy policy onto the agenda, Premier Rachel Notley, once ...

9. Reconsider Energy East and get Canada off Saudi oil

   Appeared in the Montreal Gazette, August 23, 2018 Canada’s escalating spat with Saudi Arabia raises an obvious question. Why is Canada, sitting on the world’s third-largest oil reserves, importing some 87 thousand barrels of oil per day from Saudi Arabia, ...

10. Alberta's energy future looking brighter

    The largest growth of energy demand is projected to be in China, Southeast Asia and India. ...