How could twinning an existing pipeline that has been operating safely for 69 years be this late and this expensive? On June 22, Ottawa’s Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) reported that the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) is “no longer a profitable...
Hey everybody! It’s time to start jumping up and down like idiots! The patch is busy and everyone is hiring! Outstanding! Let’s go make the big money on “The Rigs!” (That’s how I remember hearing it nearly four decades ago) It is true; there is “big money” to be made...
This past weekend was an emotional one for our family. Katrina crossed the stage, graduating Grade 12. And her future looks bright. She’s going to school, and she’s going to work. In the oilpatch. Katrina was a beneficiary of a forward-thinking government roughly six...
Just two years ago, executives from a leading renewable energy company boasted they were experiencing the “best renewable energy development environment in history.” But, as of the second quarter of 2022 the renewable energy boom they predicted looks more like...
I have several friends that always ask me, “When is Brad Wall running for prime minister?” The guys asking are almost exclusively from Alberta; Calgary, in particular. I think that the reason they ask is based on two things. One, the less-than-desirable federal...
A clear signal that Alberta’s oil and gas industry is alive and kicking was Calgary’s Global Energy Show June 6-8. Last held in 2019, this important annual event was one of the many casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Originally called the...
