There was a rhythm to my life inside a coal-fired power plant in southeast Saskatchewan. I could hear it before I fully understood it: the steady hum of rotating equipment, the distant, sighing hiss of high-pressure steam, the smell of water treatment and the...
There have been many recent headlines concerning global conflict, economics and energy security. One of the larger conversations receiving comparatively little attention, however, concerns the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Created in 1975 following...
Over the past number of weeks, the subject of provincial royalties has once again entered into public debate. The discussion remains fixed along a familiar divide: those who want better returns, and those who want to protect the investment environment. Both the...
I’ve built a lot of teams over the years. For a long time, I had a formula. Find the strongest people you can and pay them more money than the other guys. Give them a schedule, a budget, and drop them into a problem like a match into dry grass. Fast. Focused....
(Originally posted on LinkedIn on April 8, the day after the ceasefire was announced) Well…that was an interesting 39 days of people finding out about the Strait of Hormuz…and I am not suggesting anything is over, but what an eye opener as to the fragility...
This weekend, I took a 2,200 km road trip from the farm to Edmonton and back in my old pickup. I’ve probably made that drive two dozen times over the decades. Same old prairie. Same old small towns. Same endless highway. But this time, it felt different because...
