With the completion of the Limestone Dam in 1990, with its large and low-cost generation capacity, the future outlook for meeting Manitoba’s electricity needs at low cost looked very positive. But, thirty years later, instead of Manitoba Hydro’s finances strong and...
Energy
The Asian Coal Age
The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) took place in Glasgow, Scotland and marked the 26th annual summit on climate change. The conference faced a renewed sense of urgency and purpose. It required consensus by one hundred and ninety world leaders,...
Energy Inquiry Shows the Problem and the Way
If a public inquiry found that hundreds of millions of dollars was being funnelled by foreign entities to undermine Canadian industry, should we conclude there is nothing wrong? Remarkably, the public inquiry’s final report into anti-Alberta energy campaigns did the...
New-ish LNG Project has Nisga’a First Nation Backing, Aiding its Launch, but Will Not Guarantee It
Recently, a previously-mooted huge, estimated $55 billion Liquefied Natural Gas, ‘LNG’, project taking natural gas from Northeastern British Columbia to its northwest coast at Pearse Island received the blessing and explicit financial and political backing from the...
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Process, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Accountability and Transparency Inspectorate, ‘PEEATI’
A litany of disastrous decisions have sometimes cost lives and definitely many billions of dollars. Effectively cancelling the Global Public Health Intelligence Network; the failure to implement the pandemic preparedness protocols developed by Ottawa’s public health...
Foreign Influence in Canadian Economy?
Foreign influence or interference has become a mediatic topic. The fear and suspicion of interference in the elections and democratic process have been in news headlines. For the western countries, the suspicion bears on Russia and China. Revisionist powers have a...
Thinking About Utility Corridors
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/08/09/canada-on-cusp-of-new-oil-era-as-heavy-crude-discounting-nears-end-canadian-naturals-laut/ If all goes according to plan, the pipeline to the west will not be required within 10 years. Instead, the need to feed...
Ethanol and Drought
would it not make sense to lift the ethanol blending mandate in the USA?
Oil Sand News
Imperial Oil has reduced production costs and reduced carbon emissions to being on par with conventional oil. What are the environmentalists going to complain about now?
Wuskwatim Under Water — and Sinking
Enormous cost overruns for Wuskwatim, excessively rosy government economic predictions and tectonic changes in the US electricity market will force Manitobans to pay more and more for electricity to cover for export shortfalls.
Energy analyst warns of Muskrat, Manitoba parallels: Tom Adams says Wuskwatim project costs jumped 85 per cent over initial estimates
An Ontario-based energy industry analyst is warning about similarities between the Muskrat Falls hydro plan and a Manitoba project whose costs have spiralled well above budget.
The Energy Revolution Part One: The Biggest Losers
A world energy revolution is underway and it will be shaping the realities of the 21st century when the Crash of 2008 and the Great Stagnation that followed only interest historians. A new age of abundance for fossil fuels is upon us. And the center of gravity of the global energy picture is shifting from the Middle East to… North America.
Markets Delivery Declining CO2 levels
It is amazing how the private sector economy works. A bit of private sector innovation has solved the problem that avoids massive taxation and government regulation. Meanwhile, several European countries are continuing to block the development of Shale Gas while...
UK Fracking News
The UK has a break out of reasonable thinking?
How Obama Lost Canada: Botching Relations With the United States’ Biggest Trade Partner
Permitting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline should have been an easy diplomatic and economic decision for U.S. President Barack Obama. The completed project would have shipped more than 700,000 barrels a day of Albertan oil to refineries in the Gulf Coast, generated tens of thousands of jobs for U.S. workers, and met the needs of refineries in Texas that are desperately seeking oil from Canada, a more reliable supplier than Venezuela or countries in the Middle East. The project posed little risk to the landscape it traversed. But instead of acting on economic logic, the Obama administration caved to environmental activists in November 2011, postponing until 2013 the decision on whether to allow the pipeline.