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Comment: Near perfect record not good enough for some

May 25, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, Editorial, Environment, International, Safety Tagged With: American Petroleum Institute, crude by rail, energy, Environment, Jack Gerard, oil, oil industry, pipeline, Safety, train

Comment: The Age of Innovation and How Ingenuity Became a Necessity by Neil Poxon

May 1, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Innovation, International, News Tagged With: Canadian Energy Research Institute, energy, Innovation, oil and gas, oil sands

Comment: Want to blame someone for killing pipeline projects-blame Stephen Harper

May 1, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

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, […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, Editorial Tagged With: Alberta, energy, English bay, Environment Canada, Northern Gateway pipeline, oil sands, oil spill, pipelines, TransCanada, Vancouver

Comment: CAPP has warning for politicians in race to form next government in Alberta

May 1, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, Editorial, News Tagged With: Alberta Oil, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, CAPP, energy, Energy East, Keystone XL, mining, Northern gateway, oil and gas industry, petroleum, Tim McMillan, TransMountain

Comment: Alberta climate change minister has her work cut out for herself

April 13, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, Editorial, Environment Tagged With: Alberta, Alberta government, Climate Change, Diana McQueen, Stephen Harper

Comment: Let’s make a deal

April 6, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

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. […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: arctic drilling, energy, Energy and Economy, energy policy, Energy Security, Fuels, Keystone XL pipeline, natural gas, oil, Risk Management, Sustainability

Comment: A look at why Canada’s energy sector isn’t all in when it comes to research & development

March 12, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: energy sector, Fort McMurray, Innovate Calgary, oil sands, R&D, research and development, Syncrude

Comment: Maude Barlow on pipelines

February 20, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: American Association of Railroads, energy, Energy East pipeline, fossil fuel, maud barlow, oil industry, oil sands, pipeline, rail, renewable, tar sands, trains

Comment: Pipelines vs rail cars

February 20, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Alberta, derail, Energy East, Keystone XL, Northern gateway, oil, oil sands, pipelines, rail cars, tanker cars, trains

Comment: Poll results few oil execs will be pleased with

February 13, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Alberta Oil, Energy East pipeline, Kinder Morgan, Northern gateway

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