Brian Zinchuk on Gormley: Ukraine and how Canadian energy could make a difference for Europe
On Wednesday, Mar. 2, Pipeline Online editor and owner Brian Zinchuk was a guest on CJME/CKOM’s John Gormley Live, part of a new regular monthly segment during the 10 o’clock hour, the first Wednesday of the month.
This month’s topic is the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the implications for global energy markets and the energy sector her in Saskatchewan.
SaskPower announces $2 million for approximately 20 electric vehicle fast-charging stations
REGINA – SaskPower is announced a program promoting the installation of approximately 20 electric vehicle fast-charging stations across the province. The number of actual chargers will vary per location, but will likely average around two per site. The...
Steam-Est Industries is joining the fight against colon cancer
Steam-Est Industries of Estevan is launching a campaign to fight colon cancer. Owner Keith Cassidy relates a heartfelt message about how his wife, Becky, has fought that battle.
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Brian Crossman: Slava’s thoughts on war, as a Soviet conscript soldier
It is heart-breaking to watch people losing their homes, jobs and lives because a Russian leader has a world domination complex. All this has brought back a very interesting, albeit sad experience from 27 years ago. This has made me think of one person in particular, whose story is relevant today.
Sask NDP plan leadership race for late June. Nomination rules limit the number of straight men who can be signatories, requiring half of signatories to be women or gender diverse
REGINA—Following the resignation of Ryan Meili as leader, the Saskatchewan New Democrats set the rules and timing for a leadership contest at Provincial Council this Saturday. The new leader will be elected at a leadership convention in Regina in late June, 2022, according to a press release on Feb. 28. The registration process has its own affirmative action angle with regards to gender, specifically limiting how many men can be signatories to the nomination.
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CAPP says Canada should move to supply Europe with oil and gas, but is unable to due to project cancellations
CALGARY – While Russia invades Ukraine, it has a stranglehold on European energy supplies, especially natural gas. Canada should move to supply Europe with oil and liquified natural gas (LNG), but recent project cancellations and delays for LNG projects and pipelines...
Steve Halabura: Some things we can do to combat the horror in Ukraine. I’m willing to sponsor a refugee family. Will you?
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...
No more Russian oil for Canada or US, Moe says in response to invasion of Ukraine
REGINA – Premier Scott Moe weighed in on social media on Feb. 25 as to how Canada can react to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Canada, and the United States, can stop using Russian oil. Moe posted on Facebook, “Just to be clear, both Canada and the US will continue to...
NEWS: Teck Resources reports nearly $1.49B Q4 profit compared with loss a year ago
VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. says it remains committed to rebalancing its portfolio toward less carbon-intensive resources even though soaring prices for steelmaking coal helped push the miner to a record fourth-quarter profit. Surging global...
NEWS: Baytex earns $563 million in fourth quarter, announces share buyback program
CALGARY — Baytex Energy Corp. says it earned $563 million and continued to pay down debt in the fourth quarter of 2021 against the backdrop of surging oil and gas prices. The Calgary-based company says its earnings increased to $1 per share, up...
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Brian Zinchuk: Weak men create hard times, and by invading Ukraine, Putin has decided the West is governed by the weak. He’s not wrong
Vladimir Putin saw weakness in the West, and chose to strike Ukraine. He likely won’t stop there, and we have become so soft, there’s little the West can do to stop him.
NEWS: Airlines, industry join together to spur sustainable jet fuel growth in Canada
CALGARY — A new organization aims to spur Canadian development of sustainable aviation fuel, a technology advocates say is the airline industry’s best shot at reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.
The Canadian Council for Sustainable Aviation Fuels (C-SAF) was launched Wednesday by a consortium of 60 airlines operating in Canada, both domestic (Air Canada, WestJet Airlines Ltd) and foreign-owned (British Airways, Cathay Pacific).
Where’s the video? A week later, BC RCMP releases two very short video clips of alleged assault on Coastal GasLink pipeline workers
HOUSTON, B.C. – In the wake of an alleged violent attack on Coastal GasLink pipeline workers near Houston, B.C., during the early morning hours of Feb. 17, an open question has been, “Where is the video?” In a day where nearly everyone carries a video camera on their...
Arnett & Burgess Pipeliners digs into its 65th Year in pipeline construction
CALGARY – Only a handful of companies in the Canadian oilpatch have made it 50 years in business. Fewer still have made it 65. But on Feb. 22 Arnett & Burgess Pipeliners (A&B) celebrated a major milestone of 65 years in pipeline construction.
That’s long enough that if the incorporation papers were a person, they could collect a pension cheque.
NEWS: Alberta aiming to double private surgeries in public health-care system
Alberta’s got a few more billion flowing in due to soaring oil and gas prices. Here’s what they’re going to do with it, as laid out in Feb. 22’s throne speech.
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NEWS: U.S. Supreme Court won’t take Dakota Access Pipeline case
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to consider an appeal of a lawsuit over the Dakota Access Pipeline, meaning that an ongoing environmental review of the pipeline will continue. Dakota Access, which is controlled by Texas-based Energy...
The Oxbow assets Saturn bought in SE Saskatchewan are expected to produce more cash flow this year than the purchase price: Saturn CEO
Last year, Saturn Oil & Gas bought a substantial chunk of the southeast Saskatchewan assets Crescent Point had put up for sale. Now, if oil prices stay consistent, the cashflow from those assets will exceed the purchase price. In the meantime, Saturn’s doing a pile of abandonments.
Peter Linder: Musings of an ex-oil and gas analyst: Less drilling but more dividends; Inflation; Ukraine, Iran and U.S. shale
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,...
NEWS: Alberta UCP government readies throne speech for start of busy legislative session
EDMONTON — Alberta's United Conservative government is getting ready for a speech from the throne to open a legislative session that could be like no other. Lt.-Gov. Salma Lakhani is expected to deliver the speech in the legislature this...
NEWS: Cost of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion soars 70 per cent to $21.4 billion
CALGARY — An eye-popping 70 per cent increase in the projected price tag for the Trans Mountain expansion was met Friday by jeers from environmental groups and a pledge from the federal government to put no additional public money toward the...
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NEWS: Politicians condemn violence at Coastal GasLink construction site in northern B.C.
Politicians are denouncing what police have called a violent confrontation in separate attacks against officers and employees at a construction site for a natural gas pipeline being built across northern British Columbia.
NEWS: Alta. homeowners feel pinch of high commodity prices as utility bills spike
CALGARY — Alberta’s oil and gas sector is awash with cash and the province’s books could be headed back into the black this year, but residents of the energy-producing province are experiencing the downside of the commodity price boom on their utility bills.
Market prices for natural gas and electricity have surged to near-record highs after more than seven years of depressed prices, and that’s leading to some shocks to the wallet for homeowners.
Meili takes his own “walk in the snow,” steps down as NDP leader. The last two years he focused almost exclusively on COVID, and very little on energy
SASKATOON – Ryan Meili announced on Feb. 18 he is stepping down as leader of the New Democratic Party. The 46-year-old Saskatoon Meewasin MLA was initially elected in a byelection in March, 2017. He had sought the leadership in 2009 and 2012, ultimately gaining success in his third attempt in 2017. In announcing his resignation in Saskatoon, Meili spoke of “taking a walk in the snow,” a clear reference to former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who famously decided to resign after taking his own walk in the snow, in February 1984.
Brian Zinchuk: While police prepared to shut down trucker protests in Ottawa, a pipeline site was attacked at night. Where is the real emergency now?
On a day when police in Ottawa continued to prepare to break up the trucker protest near Parliament Hill, and Parliament, itself, was debating the necessity of implementing the Emergencies Act, news emerged of a true emergency that occurred half a continent away....
Coastal GasLink: Workers shaken after violent attack at Morice River drill site
“During the early morning hours of Feb. 17, 2022, approximately 20 masked and violent attackers wearing camouflage surrounded and attacked Coastal GasLink workers in a highly planned and dangerous unprovoked assault.”
“This coordinated and criminal attack from multiple directions threatened the lives of several workers. In one of the most concerning acts, an attempt was made to set a vehicle on fire while workers were inside. The attackers also wielded axes, swinging them at vehicles and through a truck’s window. Flare guns were also fired at workers. Workers fled the site for their own safety and remain shaken by this violent incident. Fortunately, there were no physical injuries to Coastal GasLink workers,” said Coastal GasLink