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This Vigilante Scientist Trekked Over 10,000 Kilometres to Reveal B.C.’s Leaking Gas Wells
This Vigilante Scientist Trekked Over 10,000 Kilometres to Reveal B.C.’s Leaking Gas Wells If you’d met John Werring four years ago, he wouldn’t have been able to tell you what an abandoned gas well looked like. “We had no idea whether they were even accessible,” said the registered professional biologist. That was before the summer of 2014, […]
North America’s Next Big Shale Play
North America’s Next Big Shale Play The oil price crash of 2014 not only weighed on Canada’s oil sands industry, but it also directed more company investment into shorter-cycle shale projects in the U.S. at the expense of more capital- and energy-intensive oil sands production in Canada. While the oil sands will continue to be […]
Megadams Not Clean or Green, Says Expert
Megadams Not Clean or Green, Says Expert Forty years of research show hydro dams create environmental damage, says David Schindler. ‘When you add the emissions from building and producing materials for a dam, as well as the emissions from clearing forests and moving earth, the greenhouse gas production from hydro is expected to be about […]
How a U.S. Company is Suing Canada for Rejecting Quarry in Endangered Whale Nursery
How a U.S. Company is Suing Canada for Rejecting Quarry in Endangered Whale Nursery When a Canadian federal-provincial environmental review panel ruled in 2007 that a proposed quarry would go against community core values and would threaten right whales and other marine life in the Bay of Fundy, groups that had fought against the project […]
Minimum Wage Fallout Is Caused by Government, Not Businesses
Minimum Wage Fallout Is Caused by Government, Not Businesses Employees don’t magically become more productive because businesses have to pay them more, so they need to make up the losses elsewhere. Both in Canada and in the U.S., many jurisdictions have “listened” to the people and enacted feel-good legislation like increasing the minimum wage, sometimes […]
Is This The Beginning Of An Oil Sands Revival?
Is This The Beginning Of An Oil Sands Revival? New life was breathed into the Canadian oil sands with a decision by foreign-owned Harvest Operations Corp to commission its BlackGold project south of Fort McMurray. The Calgary-based arm of South Korean state-owned Korea National Oil Corp announced on Dec. 21 it will start the 10,000 […]
What’s Behind The Canadian Rig Count Crash
What’s Behind The Canadian Rig Count Crash The U.S. rig count has been on the rise for months, despite some recent hiccups, but Canada’s rig count recently plunged amid low oil prices. Canada’s rig count fell from 210 to 136 for the week ending on December 29, a massive drop off. That took the rig […]
A “Bomb Cyclone” Is Set To Detonate Off The East Coast
A “Bomb Cyclone” Is Set To Detonate Off The East Coast “This storm developing off the Southeast coast will meet the meteorological criteria of a “bomb” as it rapidly intensifies. The signal for a storm has been evident since last week, but as the track has been fine-tuned, impacts to the I-95 corridor are now […]
U.S. Rig Count Falls Slightly As Canada’s Rig Count Tanks
U.S. Rig Count Falls Slightly As Canada’s Rig Count Tanks The number of active oil and gas rigs dipped this week, according to Baker Hughes data, decreasing by 2 rigs, bringing the total rigs to 929 rigs, which is an addition of 271 rigs for the 2017 calendar year. The number of oil rigs in […]
Last record-breaking winter with snow hits Canada, US, before “nobody knows what snow is”
Last record-breaking winter with snow hits Canada, US, before “nobody knows what snow is” UPDATE: Record breaking snow falling in upstate New York. Pennsylvania. The airport in Erie, Pennsylvania, has had a whopping 65.1 inches of snow from this lake effect event — the highest snowfall total from any event on record in Erie. (Heavy […]
Canadian Separatists
Canadian Separatists COMMENT: I think the danger for Canada is not Quebec leaving because they get 11 billion dollars a year given to them by the federal government, it is the provinces paying the bills that are more likely to leave, western Canada in general but especially Alberta which has been getting hosed. As you noted […]
A Dam(n) Big Fracking Problem
A Dam(n) Big Fracking Problem Regulators left behind as industry built dozens of unauthorized dams — many at risk of failure. The province’s Environmental Assessment Office has ordered Progress Energy to drain almost all water from this seven-storey dam, built without required approvals. The company is now seeking a retroactive exemption from the assessment process. […]
Canadian Housing Affordability Hits 27 Year Low
Canadian Housing Affordability Hits 27 Year Low Real Estate Hasn’t Been this Unaffordable Since 1990 per RBC Nothing says Merry Christmas like a 27 year low for Canadian housing affordability. That’s right, real estate across Canada has not been this un affordable since the year 1990 per RBC. Spoiler alert house prices tumbled shortly thereafter. […]
Will Canada’s Latest Boom in Tar Sands Oil Mean Another Boom for Oil-by-Rail?
Will Canada’s Latest Boom in Tar Sands Oil Mean Another Boom for Oil-by-Rail? Nothing seems able to derail the rise in Canadian tar sands oil production. Low prices, canceled pipelines, climate realities, a major oil company announcing it will no longer develop heavy oils, divestment, and now even refusals to insure tar sands pipelines have all certainly slowed […]
