Editor’s note: What’s this about potash on an energy website? The same sort of drilling rigs that are used for oil and gas are used for helium, now lithium, and of course, potash. Many of the oilfield services used in oil development also work in the...
Being a potash guy, one of the things I worry about is selling our product. I know Pipeline Online is largely about oil but let me pull on your coat anyways because what I am going to say about potash also applies to oil, LNG, even wheat and canola. Potash is a...
Let me begin with a story: In 1900 my great-grandfather Kyrylo Halabura came from Torhowice, Horodenka district, near the present-day Ivano-Frankivsk in the western Ukraine. He came as part of the great Ukrainian diaspora initiated by the prime minister of the...
Editor’s note: When he’s not contributing to Pipeline Online, Steve Halabura is vice president of exploration of Royal Helium, among other things. The other day, I was chatting with my friend and colleague John Styles, and Saskatchewan’s Helium Plan came up. John,...
The farmer’s lament: “Well, there’s always next year.” But what about now? My fellow Pipeline Online columnist, Brad Wall, spoke to the politics of Canadian energy policy, and I will leave that commentary to him, as being a former politician and a current rancher, he...