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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. 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 ...

3. Trump's executive order may help Canadian oil industry

   President Trump granted permission to TransCanada Corporation to construct pipeline capacity at the border. ...

4. 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 ...

5. B.C.-Alberta pipeline war imbued with environmental hypocrisy

   Last week, in the latest skirmish in the British Columbia-Alberta pipeline wars, B.C. Premier John Horgan (pictured above) responded to an Alberta threat to turn-off the oil taps to B.C. (thus hiking gas prices in his province) by saying ...

6. New plan to ‘approve' pipelines designed to intensify pipeline wars

   Appeared in the Financial Post, February 13, 2018 The Trudeau government has announced its plan to “improve” the National Energy Board. The language of the announcement is all “sunny ways,” promising to be all things to all stakeholders. The new approval ...

7. 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 ...

8. Red tape chasing investors away from Alberta’s energy industry

   Appeared in the Edmonton Journal, October 18, 2017 Earlier this month, TransCanada Corporation, a major North American energy company, pulled the plug on Energy East—its 1.1 million-barrel-per-day oil pipeline between Alberta and New Brunswick—after the ...

9. Energy East—Trudeau and Notley make pipeline projects unviable

   Appeared in the Financial Post, October 6, 2017 TransCanada’s withdrawal of its proposal to build the Energy East and Eastern Mainline oil pipelines is a huge loss to Canada and Canadian workers—a $16 billion project regulated to death. Let’s get the red ...

10. Another blow to pipeline projects in Canada

    Appeared in the National Newswatch, September 14, 2017 It seems that hardly a week goes by without some new announced barrier to the construction of oil pipelines that would allow Canadian oil flow to markets other than the glutted United States. For ...