Op-Ed: Ty Thiessen: Looking at Saskatchewan oil royalties
Over the past number of weeks, the subject of provincial royalties has once again entered into public debate. The discussion remains fixed along a familiar divide: those who want better returns, and those who want to protect the investment environment.
B.C. Premier Eby says Canada won’t work if Ottawa favours separatist premiers
By Wolfgang Depner Canada cannot work if "separatist premiers" get all of the attention of the federal government, B.C. Premier David said Tuesday. Eby said that is the message he'll relay to Prime Minister Mark Carney, when they meet Wednesday after Carney's...
Jim Warren: US environmentalists favour EVs and the green transition: but they’re opposed to lithium mining
You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried. Environmentalists in the US have formed an anti-lithium mining alliance with Indigenous groups. Their goal is to block the development of new lithium mines in the US West and Southwest.
Entire pipeline MOU between Alberta and Ottawa, verbatim
In Pipeline Online’s continuing efforts to let people know exactly what our federal government is saying about energy policy, here’s the entire May 15 agreement between Alberta and Ottawa, verbatim
Canada-Alberta pipeline agreement announcement from feds, verbatim
In Pipeline Online’s continuing efforts to let people know exactly what our federal government is saying about energy policy, here’s the May 15 federal press release on the Canada-Alberta agreement on a West Coast pipeline, verbatim
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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech on Alberta-Canada pipeline agreement
In Pipeline Online’s continuing efforts to let people know exactly what our federal government is saying about energy policy, here’s the May 15 speech by Prime Minister Mark Carney on the new pipeline agreement between the federal government and Alberta, verbatim
Feds and BC agreement on LNG Canada’s Phase 2 expansion
The Government of British Columbia and LNG Canada reached agreement on enhanced investment co-operation and actions to collectively progress closure of final items to support a potential 2026 Final Investment Decision (FID) of LNG Canada’s proposed Phase 2 expansion.
The UAE’s economy and image as Mideast haven are tested by war
The United Arab Emirates for decades has advertised itself as a haven for international business in a Middle East awash in violent upheaval. Those waves have now crashed into this nation, testing its economic model like never before.
Quick Dick McDick: Babies for days! (Calving in all its icky glory)
Where has Quick Dick McDick been the last month? He’s been calving. And he’s going to show you some of the dirty stuff.
Reaction to the Alberta-Ottawa agreement on carbon pricing, pipeline plans
Shovels could hit the ground on a new West Coast oilsands pipeline as early as September 2027, the federal and Alberta governments said Friday, after they announced a plan to gradually increase the province's effective industrial carbon price to at least $130 a...
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‘Skin in the game’: How Alberta and Ottawa plan to fix provincial carbon market
The memorandum of understanding included a goal to increase the carbon cost industry emitters truly bear to $130 a tonne. But they did not set out a timeline or details on how it would be implemented. On Friday — a month and a half past the governments’ self-imposed April 1 deadline — Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced an agreement on the nitty gritty details.
Carney, Smith sign carbon price deal, suggest fall 2027 pipeline approval
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Friday they’re eyeing a fall 2027 start date for construction of a new bitumen pipeline to the West Coast.
It’s part of a plan to accomplish the remaining steps of the landmark energy deal they signed last fall.
Pipeline Online Podcast, Ep. 35: Erin Weir, Economist and former MP, on royalties
Former Regina-Lewvan member of parliament Erin Weir is a Saskatchewan economist who has done a lot of work on royalties. He recently published a paper taking another look at potash royalties. The discussion tackled that, but also other resources like oil, lithium and coal.
Bronwyn Eyre: Federal “greenwashing” bill is killing Canadian business
When it comes to economically destructive federal policies, it’s getting ever-harder to keep track. Among these, still firmly on the books, is the federal government’s “anti-greenwashing bill” C-59, amended by C-15, which is reducing investment and the potential for well-paid jobs.
Southeast Saskatchewan Legends: Ken Cugnet
Ken Cugnet’s love affair with the oil business began when he was 8 years old with the drilling of the Weyburn Unit discovery well on the neighbouring farm in 1954. The consultant on that rig became a bit of a hero to Ken and his twin brother, Dick, as he would drive into town to phone in the drilling reports to Calgary and Ken and his brother would wash his car while he did, and then get paid with a milkshake.
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The World Turned Upside Down: Coal workers go to Legislature to take issue with NDP’s stance on coal
In the musical Hamilton, there’s part of a song that goes, “The World Turned Upside Down.” And one could be forgiven for thinking that, when it comes to politics, unions, and power generation in Saskatchewan.
In subsequent press scrums, 26 union members from two unions stood behind the SaskPower minister, but none stood behind NDP SaskPower critic.
NDP calls for apples-to-apples comparison, but when that’s done, their coal costs mirror the government’s
Usually when the public galleries of the legislature are filled with union members, it’s almost always because they’re not happy with the government. But on May 11, 26 union members and two mayors were there not to take issue with the government, but with the opposition.
United Mine Workers of America respond to NDP coal position: “Extremely disappointed by the reckless and misleading statements”
“Statements portraying Saskatchewan’s coal sector as a “catastrophe” or suggesting that these operations are somehow worthless ignore the generations of workers who helped build this province and continue to keep the lights on during periods of growing energy demand and instability across North America.” – UMWA
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers respond to NDP coal position: “A deliberate misrepresentation of costs”
“What we witnessed from the NDP was not responsible opposition, but a deliberate misrepresentation of costs intended to undermine confidence in Saskatchewan’s energy sector and the workers who depend on it.” – IBEW
Pipeline company Enbridge unfazed by rival oil shipping projects
An executive with Enbridge Inc. says the company is unfazed by rival oil pipeline expansions likely to jockey for oilsands producers’ business, including a revival of sorts for the defunct Keystone XL proposal.
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Feds want pipeline projects reviewed by energy regulator instead of impact agency
The proposal, which will undergo a 30-day consultation process, would undo the move the Liberals made eight years ago to create the Impact Assessment Agency as a one-stop shop for all national project reviews.
Smith sees progress on pipeline deal with Ottawa after Carney meeting
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Friday she was feeling far more confident about the prospects for a new pipeline following a meeting in Ottawa with Prime Minister Mark Carney earlier in the day.
Prime Minister Mark Carney touts Canadian values in speech at global progress summit
Carney says the government’s approach includes a willingness to accept hard realities, like using all sources of energy, “including some gas,” while working towards cleaner, more affordable energy systems.
NDP say coal reburbs will cost $26 billion, but applying the same methodologies to their own plan comes up with similar numbers
in the balance is whether or not the lights turn on when you flip the switch in 2035 and onward, as well as the jobs and livelihoods of at least 1,100 coal workers, and the survival of three power plants, two mines, Estevan, Coronach and Bienfait. And then there’s that $12 billion data centre at Regina, announced as a direct result of Saskatchewan’s plans to refurbish its coal fleet and bring Boundary Dam Units 4 and 5 out of retirement and back into operation.
Saturn adding a fifth rig once drilling resumes after breakup
Saturn is drilling a lot of multi-lateral wells these days, and plans on resuming drilling earlier than initially planned.