Cheap, clean, safe and secure. Whether it’s petroleum products, natural gas or electricity, that’s how we like our energy. But we’re never really satisfied, are we? Our wallets feel picked by the monthly utility bill. Only a perpetual motion machine will ever be clean enough. And we question safety over extremely low-probability events. I’m being […]
It’s time to close the spreadsheets and think differently about the world of energy. A couple of weeks ago, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released their 176-page report titled, World Energy Investment 2019. I will spare you the read and take you to a quote, buried on page 30 that pretty much sums up what […]
Premier-elect Jason Kenney has taken over the keys to Alberta’s hydrocarbon pump house. Within those borders, he’ll lead the interests of the world’s sixth largest producer of oil and natural gas combined. That’s big. Producing over 5.6 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, only slightly behind China, Alberta is consequential to the world’s energy […]
We hear it often. Investment in Canada’s oil and gas industry has dried up over the past couple of years. It’s true. And the contraction is steep. It’s been like losing some of Canada’s largest infrastructure projects overnight. For example, the multi-year Muskrat Falls hydro project in Newfoundland and Labrador is ticketed at $13 […]
