Alberta Diary: The real reason upgrading bitumen in Alberta ‘doesn’t make sense’
A bitumen processing plant near Fort McMurray, back in the day. Below: An actual bitumen bubble. The government of Alberta is “desperate” to get the province’s bitumen resources to market, as its media...
View ArticleBill Longstaff: Finally, a voice Harper may listen to
A carbon tax is an eminently fair and sensible approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. And big oil agrees. At least Steve Williams, CEO of Canada’s largest oil and gas producer, Suncor Energy,...
View ArticleBill Longstaff: I know you have to say that stuff, Rachel, but still ….
At a recent speech to international investors in Calgary, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley described the tar sands as “a tremendous asset” and an “international showpiece.” Hearing my premier and the...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Opposition focuses its fury on Tzeporah Berman, ignores...
PHOTOS: Environmentalist Tzeporah Berman. Below: Former Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers president Dave Collyer, who worked successfully with Ms. Berman to produce the recommendations of the...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: ‘A disservice to our nation’ – Tzeoporah Berman fires back...
In a blistering broadside on social media yesterday, prominent B.C. environmentalist Tzeporah Berman fired back at Opposition Leader Jason Kenney for his continuing effort to
View ArticleAlberta Politics: While Albertans panicked about state of the oilsands, the...
While Albertans have been in flap over the state of the province’s oilsands industry, the Big Five Oilsands extraction corporations have been raking in billions.
View ArticleAlberta Politics: If other Canadians don’t think Alberta should go suck a...
Alberta! Go suck a lemon! I don’t endorse that sentiment, of course. I’m an Albertan, after all. The person who did say something like that,
View ArticleAlberta Politics: If Rachel Notley caps Alberta oil production tonight, how...
If Rachel Notley uses the Alberta Government’s power to put a cap on oil production tonight, as she hinted she would do in a newspaper
View ArticleAlberta Politics: The Day After: Alberta heavy crude prices squirt upward in...
It was nice for Alberta’s New Democratic Party Government that the first thing the price of Alberta heavy crude did the morning after Premier Rachel
View ArticleAlberta Politics: The oilsands’ other dirty little secret — Canadians barely...
It’s the other dirty little secret of the oilsands: Foreign companies and their shareholders are benefitting from the huge dividends produced by Alberta’s vast bitumen sand deposits while Canadians are...
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