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1. Trans Mountain takes yet another hit

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, September 25, 2019 According to reports, the B.C. Court of Appeal last week told the Government of British Columbia to reconsider its environmental assessment certificate and conditions issued for the Trans Mountain pipeline ...

2. Clouds may be breaking over Alberta’s oil and gas sector

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, August 28, 2019 The troubles of the oil and gas sector continue to plague Alberta. The province’s unemployment rate (as of July) was stuck at 7 per cent, better than the 9.1 per cent of October 2016, but well above the 5.2 ...

3. Another second-best solution for Alberta’s oil transport woes

   On top of the second-best solution to buying railroad cars (putting Alberta taxpayers into the railroad business) and the second-best solution of curtailing oil production in Alberta, Premier Notley recently rolled out still another ...

4. Here, Alberta, have another hurdle

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, January 16, 2019 According to news reports, the National Energy Board (NEB) is adding a new hurdle in the path of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project that it would require the creation of a marine mammal protection ...

5. Pipeline crunch sending crude to markets—by truck

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, November 7, 2018 In a report from Bloomberg News, Robert Tuttle shows the level of absurdity reached in Canada, where clogged pipelines and a slow-to-respond rail system have led to a new thing—the long-haul transportation of ...

6. Alberta needs diversification—of oil transport capacity

   If it wasn’t already clear why Alberta needs a broader customer base and more highly diversified oil transportation capacity, recent events should make it painfully obvious. First, despite today’s dip, oil prices for West Texas ...

7. Stranded assets? Only if government strands them

   For years now, ever since Peak Oil Theory  (the idea that the world would soon run out of economically viable oil reserves) was utterly shattered by the oil and gas boom in the United States, we’ve heard, “it doesn’t matter anyway, and ...

8. The Trans Mountain pipeline—it’s Groundhog Day, in September

   Appeared in the Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal, September 29, 2018 On Groundhog Day on February 2, Punxsutawney Phil in the United States and Wiarton Willie here in Canada ceremonially emerge from their dens, and if they sees their shadows (meaning it is a ...

9. Oil opponents target tankers despite sparkling safety record

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, July 18, 2018 Opposition to oil production and oil tankers, in both British Columbia and Alberta, is nothing new. And it continues despite the Trudeau government’s $4.5 billion purchase of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain ...

10. Environmental group identifies minuscule spillage rates for pipelines

    A new report by Equiterre, a Quebec-based environmental group, has looked into the safety of pipelines in Canada, by focusing on four pipelines in Quebec. From their report, one would conclude that pipelines are growing less safe, ...