The reason we have the comfortable lifestyle we all enjoy can be summed up in one word: energy. Pure and simple. We have the ability to be warm in the winter and cool in the hot days of summer. We can travel great distances in short periods of time with minimal...
Thirty years ago, I had the opportunity to meet the secretary general of OPEC, Dr. Subroto of Indonesia. He was visiting Calgary and being squired about by Alberta Energy Minister Rick Orman. We met at the Lake Louise ski hill at the end day. But the liquid my brain...
307 days. That’s not even a year. That’s precisely how long it took from the day President Joe Biden was sworn in, when he cancelled Keystone XL, until the day he opened up the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve. What the heck is that? The U.S. Gulf...
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...
Watching what has been happening in British Columbia has been sobering, especially because two of the towns affected were places I was offered jobs, back in 2007. If we had moved to Merritt, and stayed there, there is a very good bet our house would have been flooded...
The citizens of Saskatchewan got a harsh reminder of their province’s second-tier status in Confederation after Premier Scott Moe took to the airwaves expressing his displeasure with the climate policies announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the COP26 UN...
