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The 10 Energy Stories That Defined 2017
The 10 Energy Stories That Defined 2017 As 2017 comes to a close, it’s time to review the top energy stories of the year. There are several stories that could compete for the year’s top spot, but this year I have decided to list the stories roughly in the order they occurred during the year. […]
Oil Major: 70% Of Crude Can Be Left In The Ground
Oil Major: 70% Of Crude Can Be Left In The Ground Canada’s oil sands are too dirty to be produced, and should probably stay in the ground. That has long been the sentiment of environmental groups, but it is also gaining acceptance even among some of the largest oil companies in the world. “A lot […]
Canada’s Pipeline Industry Takes Another Hit
Canada’s Pipeline Industry Takes Another Hit Another oil pipeline in Canada bites the dust. TransCanada announced last week that it would scrap its plans to build a 2,800-mile major pipeline that would traverse nearly the entire country, closing off a crucial potential export route for Canada’s oil sands. The $15 billion Energy East pipeline would […]
Blowout Week 123
Blowout Week 123 A few careless campers who forgot to extinguish their campfire, or maybe a few kids playing with matches, or a cigarette, or an arsonist, a piece of glass, whatever, have in the last few days done more to bring the global oil market back into balance than OPEC and the rest of […]
Energy Wars of Attrition: The Irony of Oil Abundance
Energy Wars of Attrition: The Irony of Oil Abundance Three and a half years ago, the International Energy Agency (IEA) triggered headlines around the world by predicting that the United States would overtake Saudi Arabia to become the world’s leading oil producer by 2020 and, together with Canada, would become a net exporter of oil around 2030. Overnight, […]
Canadian Oil Slammed By Low Prices, Pipeline Woes
Canadian Oil Slammed By Low Prices, Pipeline Woes Canada has been particularly hit hard during the downturn in oil prices. A major oil-producing country, Canada rode the commodity wave upwards over the past decade, but has suffered from the downturn. The economy briefly dipped into a recession in 2015. Even after growth resumed, Canada’s GDP slowed the […]
Canada’s Indigenous Bands Rise Up Against a Tar Sands Pipeline
Canada’s Indigenous Bands Rise Up Against a Tar Sands Pipeline TransCanada, the company behind the now-defunct Keystone XL, is proposing another pipeline that would ship Alberta tar sands oil to Canada’s Atlantic coast. But fierce opposition from First Nation communities could derail this controversial project. Sitting in his office on the outskirts of Montreal, Serge Otis […]
River Supplying Water To Alberta Oil Sands Operations At Risk From Drought
River Supplying Water To Alberta Oil Sands Operations At Risk From Drought A new study casts doubt on the long-term ability of the Athabasca River to supply the water Alberta’s oil sands industry relies on. Water is allocated to oil sands operations based on river flow data collected since the 1950s, but that doesn’t necessarily […]
Newfoundland’s oil ripple effect: As prices fall, commuting workers stay home
Newfoundland’s oil ripple effect: As prices fall, commuting workers stay home The big paycheques from Alberta are drying up, and with them the economic good times It was a tell-tale sign when East Coast Catering of St. John’s laid off 44 workers in September. The company supplies meals and housekeeping services to Newfoundland’s offshore oil rigs, two […]
Will declines in U.S. and Canadian oil production lead to a global decline?
Will declines in U.S. and Canadian oil production lead to a global decline? At the beginning of this year I noted that all of the growth in world oil production* since 2005 has come from two countries: the United States and Canada. And, I suggested that since the growth in production in those two countries came […]
Canadian Oil Trapped Without More Pipeline Capacity
Canadian Oil Trapped Without More Pipeline Capacity Adding insult to injury for Canada’s oil industry, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton came out against the Keystone XL Pipeline on September 22, ending several years of silence and waffling on the controversial issue. That comes as a blow to TransCanada, the project’s backer, who wanted to connect Canada’s oil […]
Oil sands pipelines now back on the election agenda
Oil sands pipelines now back on the election agenda Mulcair may have the most explaining to do in tonight’s French-language leaders’ debate So now we know. The woman who wants to be the next Democrat to occupy the White House has made a decision that the president she hopes to succeed hasn’t, or won’t. Hillary […]
Nexen’s Brand New, Double-Layered Pipeline Just Ruptured, Causing One of the Biggest Oil Spills Ever in Alberta
Nexen’s Brand New, Double-Layered Pipeline Just Ruptured, Causing One of the Biggest Oil Spills Ever in Alberta A pipeline at Nexen Energy’s Long Lake oilsands facility southeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta, spilled about five million liters (32,000 barrels or some 1.32 million gallons) of emulsion, a mixture of bitumen, sand and water, Wednesday afternoon — […]
Greenwash: Shell May Remove “Oil” From Name as it Moves to Tap Arctic, Gulf of Mexico
Greenwash: Shell May Remove “Oil” From Name as it Moves to Tap Arctic, Gulf of Mexico Shell Oil has announced it may take a page out of the BP “Beyond Petroleum” greenwashing book, rebranding itself as something other than an oil company for its United States-based unit. Marvin Odum, director of Shell Oil’s upstream subsidiary companies in the Americas, told Bloomberg the name Shell […]
Zero Carbon Emissions: The New Language Of Climate Change
Zero Carbon Emissions: The New Language Of Climate Change This is a guest post by David Suzuki. If nothing else, the G7 countries’ recent agreement to end fossil fuel use for energy by 2100 signals a shift in the way we talk and think about global warming. Previous agreements were about reducing carbon emissions from burning coal, […]
