Someone asked me yesterday, “Why didn’t Alberta send someone to the Doha meetings?” I resisted the temptation to reply with a dismissive comment. It was a silly question, but I had to admit that I wouldn’t have minded being a fly on the wall at the proceedings. The spectacle was mostly a hopeless effort in […]
By now, we’ve all received the memo on distress in the oil and gas industry. Daily, depressing blogs, news stories and twitter feeds are diarizing the corporate carnage, project cancellations, idle oilfield activity and 100,000-plus layoffs. The cash drought is so severe, even the line-ups at Tim Hortons have subsided. That’s what happens when $50 […]
I pulled into the filling station somewhat reluctantly. It was packed with a parade of cars, SUVs and pickup trucks, each jockeying for their turn to nourish their internal combustion engines with a tank of gasoline. I don’t like waiting. But I did, and after the ordeal I went into the station to buy a […]
“Exciting!” is not a word that most would use to describe the oil and gas business these days. Not with low commodity prices. And not with the assault on fossil fuels by energy systems powered by renewables.
