Two of Canada’s leading commentators had a discussion about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and a lot of that discussion revolved around Trudeau’s energy policy, especially in the last half. The Interview is called “Trudeau vs. Canada,”...
Our experience with globalization over the past few decades offers a preview of what we can expect regarding international cooperation in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Remember when global free trade was all the rage back in the 1990s and early 2000s? Prairie...
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...
