I was sitting with my wife at a restaurant last week and I had a little fun with her. “Big day next week. Do you know what it is?” I asked. She wracked her brain, as it wasn’t our anniversary, and her birthday is at the end of the month. So what could it be? After...
For the third day in a row, and four days out of the last six, Alberta’s wind power production utterly collapsed. Over the last three days, wind power generation dropped to less than half of one per cent of nameplate capacity, and on one day it fell to one per...
CALGARY – Through what has easily been the most contentious decade for pipelines in this nation, Al Monaco led on of the biggest players, Enbridge. But on Oct. 1, Enbridge announced Al Monaco’s retirement as president and chief executive officer and from its...
Alberta adds 29th wind farm, and collectively they all put out 0.3 per cent of their capacity on Oct. 1 I had something of a surreal experience on Wednesday, Sept. 28. I was sitting in the SIMSA Energy Supply Forum in Regina, listening to the presenter from...
“In the oilpatch, there’s no such word as ‘can’t.’ We’ll do it, somehow.” – Red Adair This took place 60 years ago in 1961-62. They use a massive hook to tear apart the destroyed drilling rig, and covered their D8 dozers...
