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1. Alberta's abandoned wells need tending

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, February 13, 2019 Alberta has a serious orphaned (abandoned) oil and gas well problem. Reporter Barb Glen, writing in the Western Producer, notes that Alberta’s Orphan Well Association, the last resort for remediating orphan ...

2. Beware—stealthy carbon tax edges closer to reality

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, February 6, 2019 The Trudeau government is moving toward a Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) for Canada—basically, a set of government mandates to use transportation fuels that are lower in greenhouse gas emissions. As I observed last ...

3. Innovation provides bright sparks for Alberta’s future

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, January 30, 2019 It has long been observed that the inherent value in Alberta’s bitumen deposits is too large for it to stay in the ground, no matter the fervour of activists or transient declines in oil prices. Even Prime ...

4. Carbon-capturing picks up steam

   Given the difficulty and cost of avoiding the emission of greenhouse gases, there has long been interest in an alternative approach—pulling it back out of the air. Back in 2009, in an article by Lisa Zyga, we heard about “synthetic trees” ...

5. Environmental Defence goes on the offence

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, January 23, 2019 In a refreshingly candid editorial by Joshua Buck, the Alberta climate manager for Environmental Defence, Buck validates what critics of Alberta’s climate change policies have said all along: Nothing Alberta ...

6. 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 ...

7. B.C. pipeline protests a harbinger of things to come

   The pipeline has been described as an liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipeline, but according to the project website, it will transport regular slightly-pressurized natural gas to a LNG facility in Dawson Creek. The pipeline had successfully ...

8. Canada's dashed 'energy superpower' dream

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, January 9, 2019 As I was doing my year-end filing, I came upon some older studies from 2013, and as I leafed through them, was amazed at how things have changed. In 2013, the conversation in Alberta was about Canada’s future ...

9. Alberta under siege in 2019

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, January 3, 2019 Recently, Dr. Barry Cooper, a professor of political science at the University of Calgary, made a persuasive argument that with 2019 now upon us, we are witnessing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s campaign to ...

10. 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 ...