The oil and gas industry is under threat like never before from activists, legislation, and now regulatory standards. As if the ridiculous gag order against oil and gas companies talking about their present and future environmental record wasn’t enough, the...
There is a good chance climate activists smugly celebrating the collapse of conventional energy production within a generation are wildly mistaken. It is just as plausible that the time between today and ‘sunset’ for petroleum will run several decades...
Before I get started, I’d like to add some items I missed in my last article regarding the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show. I didn’t mention Kelly Taylor, a great comedian on Wednesday night, (After the prime rib supper) and of course, guest speaker at the Thursday...
Hockey players grow up admiring Gretzky and Lemieux. As a columnist for over 30 years, I grew up admiring Allan Fotheringham and Rex Murphy. Just as no one else could quite stick handle a puck like the Great One, no one else could really treat words in the same manner...
Every two years in Weyburn, Saskatchewan the oil & gas industry holds a fantastic event: the “Bi-Annual Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show.” Many oil producers, contractors, service and supply companies set up their displays and equipment to get together and the...
Governments are pushing carbon capture, but utilities aren’t willing The next great hope of carbon capture for power generation in Canada just got punted in Alberta. Now what is SaskPower to do? In late 2014, SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Unit 3 Integrated Carbon Capture...
