Large, well-financed environmental organizations have done serious damage to Western Canada’s fossil fuel industry — that doesn’t mean they can do it again The first column in this series described the masterfully executed campaign waged by environmental...
Editor’s note: I originally wrote this column in mid-April 10 years ago, at the tail end of a winter that never seemed to end. Funny how things haven’t changed that much since then, have they? Wasn’t the world supposed to warm up in the meantime?...
It’s time to mount a more effective defense This column is the first in a series of four that will assess ways to improve perceptions about Western Canada’s fossil fuel industry among policy makers and the wider public. This column acknowledges past mistakes...
Time for a toonie, from Quick Dick McDick, “Because two cents don’t buy you shit anymore.” Quick Dick is in the middle of calving, but he’s been thinking about something that smells worse than afterbirth. In one of his no holds barred...
A lot can happen in one year. Call it twelve months, or, if you prefer, three hundred and sixty four days. And man, it’s been a hell of a year. For us in the energy industry it’s been somewhat busier due to stable commodity prices, increased demand post-COVID and of...
Just what would a “net zero” energy future look like, if Saskatchewan were to replace fossil fuels for power production with renewables? Enormous tracts of land would need to be covered with wind turbines and/or solar panels, never mind the batteries to...
