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1. 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 ...

2. Throne speech provides scant details on key Alberta issues

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, March 20, 2019 Alberta’s speech from the throne, while overshadowed by Premier Notley’s election call a day later, was long on pomp, ceremony and platitudes but short on specifics, particularly on one of Alberta’s most ...

3. 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 ...

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. 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 ...

6. Trudeau and Notley fiddle while Alberta’s oil sector burns

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, September 26, 2018 It’s been a brutal few weeks for the oil sector. First, the Federal Court of Appeal “ quashed ” Ottawa’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline, on the finely nuanced reasoning that the federal government ...

7. Alberta needs less words, more deeds from Premier Notley

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, September 19, 2018 Premier Rachel Notley is still angry. Very angry. The recent Court of Appeals decision to “quash” the regulatory approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project angered Premier Notley so much that ...

8. Court ruling puts Trans Mountain pipeline expansion at risk

   There has long been opposition to oil production and oil tankers in British Columbia, an opposition that has, if anything, intensified after the federal government’s C$4.5 billion purchase of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion ...

9. Alberta's energy future looking brighter

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

10. The long list of disincentives to oil and gas investment in Canada keeps getting longer

    Recently, in the midst of the Trans Mountain pipeline saga, CBC reporter Tony Seskus wrote about Bill C-69, a plan to completely overhaul how major energy and environmental projects are reviewed by government in Canada (and the topic of ...