Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Hall of Fame: Andy Mah
“I spent a lot of time in the field. You’ve got to swing some wrenches to understand what the heck is going on,” – Andy Mah
N.S. premier says he’s pleased with interest from companies after end of fracking ban
Previous Nova Scotia premiers were content to take large equalization payments as the result of fracking in Alberta and BC, but banned fracking in their own province
Higher sales at gas stations as prices rise boost retail sales in March
Retail sales rose 0.9 per cent to $72.7 billion in March as higher gas prices boosted overall sales for the month, Statistics Canada said on Friday.
Alberta is to vote on whether to hold a separation referendum. Here’s how we got here
Premier Danielle Smith announced Thursday that Albertans will be going to the polls Oct. 19 to vote on whether there should be a future binding referendum on the province quitting Canada.
Southeast Saskatchewan Legends: Don Spearing
In 1989, Ken sold the majority of the company to his two sons, and reverted to a minority position. Don recalls his father saying, “Okay smartasses – you’ve been telling me how to run the company for the last 10 years. I’m going south. You guys run it!”
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Southeast Saskatchewan Legends: Dale Ziegler
“It soon became very apparent that our perspective of the importance of looking after our employees and key clients did not line up in any way,” Dale said. “It was time to move on and start a new business and go back to our roots where employees and key clients were the backbone of the operation.”
Weekend Watch: “I was in a death cult” says ex-climate activist
TRIGGERnometry is one of the best podcasts out there calling a spade a spade. And this particular episode about someone who, as a young woman, became fully indoctrinated in the climate cult, and has since been “red-pilled,” as it were is one of their best in recent memory. Take time to watch or listen this weekend.
B.C. to rename Site C dam after deceased premier John Horgan
Former British Columbia premier John Horgan didn’t like the idea of the Site C dam when he was alive and wouldn’t like being named after it in death, but Premier David Eby says the massive hydroelectric project was emblematic of Horgan’s leadership.
UPDATED: NDP using increasingly apoplectic wording in coal fight, launches website seeking leaks
What the website does not describe is how any of these will be powered if conventional coal is shut down in three years, seven months and nine days from today, as federal regulations require. Nor does it imply any of the money that could theoretically build 394 schools would be necessary to build new power stations and transmission lines, or the fuel to power said stations.
Jim Warren: US environmentalists favour EVs and the green transition: but they’re opposed to lithium mining
You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried. Environmentalists in the US have formed an anti-lithium mining alliance with Indigenous groups. Their goal is to block the development of new lithium mines in the US West and Southwest.
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Keyera, AltaGas and CN to go ahead with new rail terminal project
The terminal is expected to provide transportation capacity for the shipment of about 45,000 barrels per day of propane and butane from the Fort Saskatchewan region to West Coast export facilities.
Op-Ed: Ty Thiessen: Looking at Saskatchewan oil royalties
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.
B.C. Premier Eby says Canada won’t work if Ottawa favours separatist premiers
By Wolfgang Depner Canada cannot work if "separatist premiers" get all of the attention of the federal government, B.C. Premier David said Tuesday. Eby said that is the message he'll relay to Prime Minister Mark Carney, when they meet Wednesday after Carney's...
Entire pipeline MOU between Alberta and Ottawa, verbatim
In Pipeline Online’s continuing efforts to let people know exactly what our federal government is saying about energy policy, here’s the entire May 15 agreement between Alberta and Ottawa, verbatim
Canada-Alberta pipeline agreement announcement from feds, verbatim
In Pipeline Online’s continuing efforts to let people know exactly what our federal government is saying about energy policy, here’s the May 15 federal press release on the Canada-Alberta agreement on a West Coast pipeline, verbatim
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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech on Alberta-Canada pipeline agreement
In Pipeline Online’s continuing efforts to let people know exactly what our federal government is saying about energy policy, here’s the May 15 speech by Prime Minister Mark Carney on the new pipeline agreement between the federal government and Alberta, verbatim
Feds and BC agreement on LNG Canada’s Phase 2 expansion
The Government of British Columbia and LNG Canada reached agreement on enhanced investment co-operation and actions to collectively progress closure of final items to support a potential 2026 Final Investment Decision (FID) of LNG Canada’s proposed Phase 2 expansion.
The UAE’s economy and image as Mideast haven are tested by war
The United Arab Emirates for decades has advertised itself as a haven for international business in a Middle East awash in violent upheaval. Those waves have now crashed into this nation, testing its economic model like never before.
Quick Dick McDick: Babies for days! (Calving in all its icky glory)
Where has Quick Dick McDick been the last month? He’s been calving. And he’s going to show you some of the dirty stuff.
Reaction to the Alberta-Ottawa agreement on carbon pricing, pipeline plans
Shovels could hit the ground on a new West Coast oilsands pipeline as early as September 2027, the federal and Alberta governments said Friday, after they announced a plan to gradually increase the province's effective industrial carbon price to at least $130 a...
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‘Skin in the game’: How Alberta and Ottawa plan to fix provincial carbon market
The memorandum of understanding included a goal to increase the carbon cost industry emitters truly bear to $130 a tonne. But they did not set out a timeline or details on how it would be implemented. On Friday — a month and a half past the governments’ self-imposed April 1 deadline — Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced an agreement on the nitty gritty details.
Carney, Smith sign carbon price deal, suggest fall 2027 pipeline approval
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Friday they’re eyeing a fall 2027 start date for construction of a new bitumen pipeline to the West Coast.
It’s part of a plan to accomplish the remaining steps of the landmark energy deal they signed last fall.
Pipeline Online Podcast, Ep. 35: Erin Weir, Economist and former MP, on royalties
Former Regina-Lewvan member of parliament Erin Weir is a Saskatchewan economist who has done a lot of work on royalties. He recently published a paper taking another look at potash royalties. The discussion tackled that, but also other resources like oil, lithium and coal.
Bronwyn Eyre: Federal “greenwashing” bill is killing Canadian business
When it comes to economically destructive federal policies, it’s getting ever-harder to keep track. Among these, still firmly on the books, is the federal government’s “anti-greenwashing bill” C-59, amended by C-15, which is reducing investment and the potential for well-paid jobs.
Southeast Saskatchewan Legends: Ken Cugnet
Ken Cugnet’s love affair with the oil business began when he was 8 years old with the drilling of the Weyburn Unit discovery well on the neighbouring farm in 1954. The consultant on that rig became a bit of a hero to Ken and his twin brother, Dick, as he would drive into town to phone in the drilling reports to Calgary and Ken and his brother would wash his car while he did, and then get paid with a milkshake.