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Canada’s race to build pipelines won’t spell relief at the pumps 20 Aug 2013 | 03:25 am
Canadian drivers may think that TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline, which will allow Alberta to ramp up oil sands production while boosting the flow of oil to eastern Canada, will translate into lower...
Canada’s race to build pipelines won’t spell relief at the pumps 20 Aug 2013 | 03:25 am
Canadian drivers may think that TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline, which will allow Alberta to ramp up oil sands production while boosting the flow of oil to eastern Canada, will translate into lower...
Energy East pipeline is no magical oil sands solution 7 Aug 2013 | 12:21 am
Shipping oil across Canada to the Atlantic coast, as TransCanada proposes to do with its Energy East project, is hardly the industry’s first choice. Taking oil south to the Gulf coast via Keystone XL ...
Why Not Everyone’s Happy to See the Bitumen Bubble Burst 25 Jul 2013 | 07:59 pm
The bitumen bubble — that much discussed and oft-lamented hindrance to Canada’s public finances — seems to have finally popped. North American oil prices, at least for the time being, are once again f...
Fracking for Yellowcake: The Next Frontier? 5 Feb 2013 | 02:52 am
It works for oil and natural gas, so why not frack for uranium too? After all, America relies on foreign uranium just like it depends on foreign oil. In the U.S. these days, it seems like you can sell...
Do We Have Enough Water to Frack Our Way to Energy Independence? 22 Jan 2013 | 05:44 am
In chemistry you quickly discover that oil and water don’t mix. The same is true in the energy industry. It’s unfortunate, because the new fuel sources that the International Energy Agency claims will...
How Big is Canada’s Oil Subsidy to the US? 7 Jan 2013 | 09:13 pm
Consider the tale of Suncor and Canadian Natural Resources, two of the largest oil sands producers in Alberta. Outwardly, they may appear quite similar. Each produces hundreds of thousands of barrels ...
The Price for Energy Independence 19 Nov 2012 | 10:36 pm
Move over OPEC, North America is about to become a net exporter of oil. At least that’s the supposed good news from the International Energy Agency’s latest outlook. According to the IEA, the drilling...
Growth Alone is Not the Answer 10 Oct 2012 | 07:50 pm
If we know anything about what makes our economy tick we know this: Feed it cheap oil and it runs like a charm. But keep it rationed to expensive fuel, and growth stops dead. Every major global recess...
The Fed is Pushing on a String 18 Sep 2012 | 08:41 pm
No matter how hard the Fed pushes, the US economy isn’t going to respond to yet another round of quantitative easing. What ails the US economy is not the cost of credit. From car loans to mortgages, b...
