Just like commercial airlines don’t make headlines for the thousands of flights that reach their destination safely each day, you won’t see much media coverage of the stellar safety rate achieved in all segments of North America’s oil and natural gas industry. But it’s a reality with direct bearing on public policy. The continents liquid […]
Comment: The Age of Innovation and How Ingenuity Became a Necessity by Neil Poxon
Neil Poxon, CEO of ProSep looks at the spur to innovation created by a low-price environment and what it means for the global oil and gas industry worldwide. On May 25, 1961, President Kennedy announced to the U.S> Congress that America would land a man on the moon and return him to Earth before the […]
Comment: Want to blame someone for killing pipeline projects-blame Stephen Harper
An oil leak right in Vancouver harbour, with slicks washing up on the pristine shores of English Bay and Stanley Park — that certainly gets voters paying attention to the environment in an election year. April’s spill from a cargo ship’s own fuel tank was small as these things go — less than 3,000 litres, […]
Comment: CAPP has warning for politicians in race to form next government in Alberta
These are volatile times for the oil and natural gas industry. The impact on Albertans has been hard as thousands of jobs have been cut. Drilling and service rigs are idle. Tools are down in machine shops. More office spaces are empty. Restaurants are quieter. Economic activity across Alberta is slowing as uncertainty clouds the […]
Comment: Alberta climate change minister has her work cut out for herself
Diana McQueen has set the bar high in her role as minister for climate change in Alberta. To start with, McQueen is promising Alberta will meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets. “I have a mandate from the premier to meet those reduction targets,” McQueen said. “We will continue to have a strong economy while meeting the 2020 […]
Comment: Let’s make a deal
Few debates in energy have been more contentious than Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline. Environmental groups opposed the pipeline and turned out a grass roots movement that astonished even battle weary Enviros. It also caused serious problems for the industry as their assets became stranded and they were forced to ship crude by rail and barge. […]
Comment: A look at why Canada’s energy sector isn’t all in when it comes to research & development
It’s easy to forget that the oil sands began as a research project. Syncrude Canada was founded 50 years ago as a research consortium that included the provincial and federal governments, and it was tasked with finding a way to turn the bituminous sands around Fort McMurray into a commercially viable project. But the country’s energy sector is […]
Comment: Maude Barlow on pipelines
Your (Regina Leader-Post’s) editorial rightly highlights the danger of transporting oil by rail. But the Energy East pipeline – which would transport 1.1 million barrels of oil per day past the growing Harbour Landing subdivision – is not safer. According to U.S. data, rail incidents happened twice as often as pipeline spills from 2004 to […]
Comment: Pipelines vs rail cars
The fiery derailment of two trains carrying crude oil in the space of three days underscores the worrisome impact of such incidents. Images of huge fireballs from the crash of an oil train in West Virginia will have brought back memories for many Canadians of the Lac-Megantic disaster where 47 people died. Two days before the West […]
Comment: Poll results few oil execs will be pleased with
Alberta Oil magazine has published its National Survey on Energy Literacy, the culmination of 1,396 online interviews of a representative sample of Canadians conducted by Leger. The results are particularly interesting coming from Alberta Oil, a magazine destined for the desks of the energy sector’s senior executives and decision-makers. There are quite a few nuggets […]
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