By Jim Warren Excessive zeal on the part of Germany’s utopian environmentalists over the past few decades has wound up encouraging Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and threatens an energy crisis in Europe. The real life consequences of dogmatic climate activism and the mad...
Back in 2009 or 10, I attended a small oil conference in Regina that had run for a few years. While there, I met with a guy who worked with Shell. It was probably the only time I ever ran into a Shell representative. This was at a time when the Bakken boom was...
It seems as though the last few weeks everything is going to hell. I was going to make some more commentary on the latest antics of our prime minister and how it affects the energy industry, but that seems a bit trivial compared to what is happening in the Ukraine. It...
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...
Around 2004 or so, I helped clean out the old air cadet hall in North Battleford. I was the training officer and a reservist lieutenant in what has since been renamed the Royal Canadian Air Force. Our cadet squadron was moving to a new home, after over 60 years in a...
Editor’s note: I’ve been following Calgary-based Peter Linder’s “Musings of an ex-oil and gas analyst” for some time now on LinkedIn, and have found them to be some of the most astute observations on the Canadian energy industry, anywhere. What he posted on Feb. 17,...
