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1. Trans Mountain and the problem with pipeline consultation in Canada

   For the second time in two years, the Federal Court of Appeal has struck down the approval of a high-profile pipeline project. It was just over two years ago that the Court helped kill the Northern Gateway pipeline—at one time, a ...

2. 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 ...

3. Things are looking better for Canadian oil and gas

   Statistics Canada has some good news for anyone interested in the health of Canada’s oil and gas industry. Canadian oil production is nearly at full capacity, and natural gas is also showing solid growth compared to last year at this ...

4. Capital flows to jurisdictions with sound, attractive polices

   Three articles, published on sequential days this month, paint a stark contrast between oil and gas regulation in the United States and Canada. Writing in Forbes, David Blackmon paints a vivid picture of a flourishing American oil and ...

5. Indonesia should study Canada’s history of resource development

   Indonesia is at a crossroads for its oil and gas industry. It can let the industry slowly die, or change course and build a dynamic economic force that enhances tax revenues, creates high-paying jobs and boosts the country’s high-tech ...

6. Competitiveness should be a top priority for finance ministers

   Serious concerns about the country’s competitiveness hovered above talks this week at the federal-provincial finance ministers meeting in Ottawa. Which is not surprising. Canada has become a less appealing place to do business due to ...

7. 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, ...

8. Trans Mountain pipeline—federal intervention entirely political

   So the Trudeau government is going to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline and related infrastructure for $4.5 billion. Moreover, there may be additional costs if the government builds the expanded pipeline, which Kinder Morgan estimated at ...

9. 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 ...

10. Federal purchase of Trans Mountain pipeline distorts incentives, sets dangerous precedent

    Today, Finance Minister Bill Morneau (pictured above) announced that the federal government will purchase all assets related to the Trans Mountain pipeline. This includes the existing pipeline first built in the 1950s, and construction ...