Announced in 2006, the Northern Gateway project would have built twin pipelines between Bruderheim, Alta. and a marine terminal at Kitimat, B.C.  One pipeline would export 525,000 barrels per day of heavy oil from Alberta to tidewater markets. The other would import 193,000 barrels per day of condensate to Alberta to dilute heavy oil for […]

Canada’s natural gas production and exports are primed for growth as LNG projects come online, according to Houston, Texas-based consultancy RBN Energy. Long-awaited LNG export terminals will open the door to Asian markets and break the decades-long grip of the United States as the sole customer for Canada’s natural gas. RBN projects that Canada’s natural […]

As construction gets underway on Cedar LNG, the world’s first Indigenous majority-owned LNG export terminal, a report from RBC highlights the project as a model of successful energy development in Canada. “We broke a pattern that had existed for over a century,” said Karen Ogen, CEO of the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance. “First Nations […]

Q&A with Gabriel Giguère, senior policy analyst with the Montreal Economic Institute. Photo Credit: Pexels.  A new poll from Angus Reid shows significant support from people in Quebec for Canada to build sea-to-sea oil and gas pipelines. Gabriel Giguère, a senior policy analyst with the Montreal Economic Institute, says it’s support like he has never […]

Investment in ‘value-added’ projects more than doubled to $4 billion in 2024. Photo Credit: Canadian Energy Centre.  In the 1930s, economist Harold Innis coined the term “hewers of wood and drawers of water” to describe Canada’s reliance on harvesting natural resources and exporting them elsewhere to be refined into consumer products. Almost a century later, […]

Next, we need a Great Exodus from net zero ideology. Pictured: Mark Carney. Photo Credit: CP Images, Canadian Energy Centre.  In 2021, all of Canada’s Big Five Banks – TD, CIBC, BMO, Scotiabank and RBC – signed onto the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). U.N.-sponsored and […]

 “I see my responsibility as using this recognition to better our people moving forward.” Pictured: Dave Tuccaro. Photo Credit: Tuccaro Group.  Even while working as a crane operator to help build and maintain oil sands facilities in the late 1970s, Dave Tuccaro always had an entrepreneurial bent. He started businesses including a janitorial services company, […]

Canada inches away from first large-scale LNG exports. Photo Credit: Canadian Energy Centre/TSMC.  The world’s leading producer of semiconductor chips wants access to Canadian energy as demand for artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly advances.   Specifically, Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG).   The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) produces at least 90 per cent of advanced chips in […]

Canada continues to be resource-rich and competes very well against major U.S. resource bases. Pictured: Sunrise oil sands project in northern Alberta. Photo Credit: Cenovus Energy. A new report on North American energy highlights the important role that Canada’s oil sands and Montney natural gas resources play in supplying growing global energy demand. In its […]

Horizontal drilling technology and more investment in oil production have fundamentally changed the industry. Photo Credit: Tourmaline.  There’s extensive discussion today about energy transition and transformation. Its primary focus is a transition from fossil fuels to lower-carbon energy sources. But in Alberta, a fundamental but different energy transition has already taken place, and its ripple […]