Pull over, driver! We want to feed you and thank you!
The blinking lights commanding truckers to pull into the weigh station don’t exactly make the drivers’ day. But something very different happened on Wednesday, Sept. 4.
Bloc Québécois ready to extract gains for Quebec in exchange for supporting Liberals
The Bloc Québécois is ready to wheel and deal with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government in exchange for support during confidence votes now that the Liberal government’s confidence and supply agreement with the NDP has ended.
Wind output in Alberta falls below 1 per cent, again, Sunday morning
The Alberta Electric System Operator’s minute-by-minute reporting of the Alberta electrical grid showed that, once again, Alberta’s wind power generation output has fallen below 1 per cent capacity.
Batten down the hatches: West Texas Intermediate is at its lowest point in over a year
Despite the geopolitical risk of the ongoing war in Ukraine, Houthis trying to sink a supertanker in the Red Sea, and most commercial vessels now avoiding the Red Sea/Suez Canal and going around Africa, oil prices are in the dumps.
Cenovus donates $2.5 million to Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Saskatchewan Polytechnic has received $2.5 million from Cenovus Energy toward its Time to Rise campaign in support of the Joseph A. Remai Saskatoon Campus.
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Brian Zinchuk on Evan Bray Show: Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show, SIMSA, Houthi attacks on tanker, and more
An hour flies by quickly when CJME/CKOM’s Evan Bray and Pipeline Online’s Brian Zinchuk get talking about energy, as they did on Wednesday, Sept. 4. Here’s the podcast version of the show.
Frontier Centre for Public Policy: Wind Power is an unreliable alternative energy source
Climate Crisis advocates doggedly promote wind and solar power as alternatives to petroleum and coal-based energy sources. Solar power has serious fundamental problems inherent to its nature, specifically its intermittency and grid-destabilization. W
More drilling going on near Lloydminster than there has been in years
With the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show coming up next week on Sept. 11-12, it’s apt to point out there’s more drilling activity happening just outside of Lloyd than there has been in many years.
B.C. Conservative leader outlines views on energy, education in podcast appearance
Speaking on an episode of Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson’s podcast released Monday, Rustad says he also wants to get rid of the carbon tax, which he says taxes people into poverty in “a vain attempt to change the weather.”
Parkland Corp. says it is looking to sell its Florida-based retail and commercial businesses.
Parkland Corp. says it is looking to sell its Florida-based retail and commercial businesses.
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The Houthis keep trying to blow up a loaded supertanker, and no one’s stopping them
The Houthis have, on multiple occasions now, set explosives on a fully loaded oil supertanker in the Red Sea. Their initial attack had the crew abandon ship, and since then they’ve repeatedly boarded it, set explosives, blew it up, while they filmed the whole thing and posted it online! For reference, the Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels of crude. The Sounion is carrying a million barrels.
Energy Realities Podcast: The Real Climate Claptrapping – Climate Alarm!
Irina Slav, Tammy Nemeth, and Stu Turley will be live talking about the most critical threat to our world, democracy, and our finances, “Climate Alarm.” or “Claptrapping”.
Nemeth Report: Brad Hayes on energy literacy
Dr. Tammy Nemeth interviewed Dr. Brad Hayes, a sedimentary geologist, on energy literacy. I signed up for his course last year but simply didn’t have time to follow through on it. I will get to it one of these days.
Additional Treaty Land Entitlement transfer of mineral rights to Cowessess First Nation
The Government of Saskatchewan has approved the transfer of 336 hectares (829 acres) of mineral rights to the Cowessess First Nation as part of their Treaty Land Entitlement (TLE) Settlement Agreement.
Op-Ed: Deidra Garyk’s Bill C-59 submission to Competition Bureau
Editor’s note: Energy advocate Deidra Garyk made the following submission to the Competition Bureau regarding Bill C-59, which came into law in late June. That law is an egregious assault on free speech in this nation, and Pipeline Online vehemently opposes it, as should you.
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Crown land sale shows interest in three areas, but none in the fourth
Crown land sales are a leading indicator of future development, and while the Aug. 6 petroleum and natural gas public offering showed extensive interest in southeast Saskatchewan, and some interest in northwest and west central Saskatchewan, it showed no interest in southwest Saskatchewan.
BC Hydro begins filling reservoir as Site C dam megaproject nears completion
BC Hydro says it has begun filling the reservoir created by the massive Site C dam project in northeastern British Columbia.
China accuses Canada of protectionism over 100% tariffs on electric vehicles
China on Tuesday accused Canada of protectionism after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government imposed a 100% tariff on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles, matching U.S. duties on Chinese-made EVs.
Power engineering courses to be offered by Sask Distance Learning, part of trades push
As part of a series of trades-based education announcements, the Government of Saskatchewan announced on Aug. 26 a new online course for power engineering.
Is being vague a virtue? Why Kamala Harris is keeping her climate cards close
While climate change looms large over Democratic politics, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is keeping its green policies vague, offering few firm positions or clear commitments.
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Lithium in SK, Part 31: Critical Mineral Incentives implemented
or several years, incentives for oil and gas development have been adapted for new, emerging commodities, namely lithium and helium. But in this past spring’s provincial budget, the Saskatchewan Party government decided to take a new tack, hiving them off into new critical minerals incentives.
Brian Zinchuk: After 140-odd years, can’t we figure rail out yet?
Rail is nothing new to Canada. It’s almost as old as the nation itself. And yet there’s always something causing grief.
SaskPower’s blog speaks about “Misconceptions about wind and solar facilities”
Editor’s note: Facing a groundswell of opposition to a proposed 200 megawatt wind project near Weyburn which would be built, operated and owned by Enbridge as an independent power producer, SaskPower posted the following on its corporate blog on Aug. 23.
Expanded mineral exploration incentive drives increased investment in Saskatchewan, says Sask Gov’t
Investment in Saskatchewan is growing as more mining companies are exploring for minerals in the province, thanks to the Ministry of Energy and Resources’ Targeted Mineral Exploration Incentive (TMEI), the Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources said in a release on Aug. 22. It’s another in a series of announcements related to critical mineral development. In early August, there was an announcement on critical mineral incentives, with lithium and helium development notably targeted.
The latest developments in the lockout at Canada’s two biggest railways
As of 6:37 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22, the rail labour dispute has been ordered into binding arbitration. Here’s how the day went down, according to the Canadian Press: