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Canada’s Energy Wealth Is Bleeding South
Canada’s energy wealth is draining south, and Ottawa is to blame. Marco Navarro-Genie argues that federal failure to build critical infrastructure has cost the country billions. The TMX pipeline? A political rescue mission disguised as a gift to Alberta. Meanwhile, U.S. companies pocket the profits. If Prime Minister Carney is serious about economic sovereignty, he must bulldoze the barriers, back utility corridors, and stop blocking Western Canada’s energy future.
Canada Is Losing Billions By Underselling Oil And It’s Hurting Us All
Direct link to counter Canada is one of the world’s largest oil and gas producers, but a lack of export options is quietly costing us billions of dollars a year Canadians are right to ask why governments are constantly short of money for hospitals, schools and...
The Cost of Underselling Canadian Oil and Gas to the USA
Forced by a lack of pipeline capacity, Canada sells most of its oil and natural gas to the U.S. at a discount of ~$20 per barrel and ~$2 per Gigajoule. With over 2 million barrels and 12.3 million Gigajoules exported daily, the loss adds up fast.
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Premiers Rally For Energy Infrastructure To Counter U.S. Tariff Threats
With U.S. tariffs looming, Premiers push for border security, pipelines, and interprovincial trade reform After more than eight years of federal policies that have challenged the oil and gas industry, imagining Canadian energy policy in a post-Trudeau era is no...
Energy Policy in a Post-Trudeau Canada Paper
Interprovincial collaboration - Counteracting Eight years of opposition to oil and gas It's not easy to consider Canadian energy policy post-Trudeau after a little over eight years of a federal government that enacted policies that were punishing to the oil and...
A Welcome End to Emission Limits is Possible in 2025
The federal and two provincial governments (Quebec and British Columbia) are preoccupied with climate change. They aim to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, principally carbon dioxide (CO2), to limit future global warming. What if this goal is not only wrongly...
Former Alberta Energy Minister Addresses War On Canadian Oil
A former Alberta cabinet minister says Canada must do a better job at promoting its energy sector and win the "war" against it. Sonya Savage, an energy lawyer with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, was Minister of Energy and Mines from 2019 to 2022, then Minister of...
Why Canada Must Double Down on Energy Production
Watch on video Must we cancel fossil fuels to save the earth? No. James Warren, adjunct professor of environmental sociology at the University of Regina said so in a recent paper for the Johnson Shoyama School of Public Policy, a joint effort by his university...
Guilbeault’s Emissions Obsession: Ten Reasons to Call Time Out on Canada’s CO2 Crusade
Canadian Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault recently announced a plan requiring the oil and gas industry to cut CO2 emissions by more than one-third from 2019 levels by 2030. This deadline might seem far off, but it also stipulates that at least 20 percent...
Leaders on the Frontier – The War That Nobody is Talking About – with Sonya Savage
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Biofuels and Biogas: Niche Alternatives at Best in Anti-Carbon Crusade
Despite the green rhetoric, biofuels and biogas are not the most effective or economic solutions for our energy needs. They remain costly distractions from more viable energy solutions. The Climate Crisis lobby touts biofuels and biogas as effective ways to...
Base Policies on Reality – Not Myths, Models, Misinformation and Fearmongering
Donald Trump and JD Vance have a mandate on energy, economic, immigration and other issues that won them 50% of popular, 58% of electoral and 82% of US county votes. On January 20 they will begin tackling the numerous problems bequeathed by the Biden-Harris...