Meltdown in Alberta’s Oil-Sands Economy
Ian Austen for the New York Times: After an extraordinary boom that attracted many of the world’s largest energy companies and about $200 billion worth of investments to oil sands development over the...
View ArticleTranscanada Seeks “Pause” in Keystone XL Review as Oil Prices Plummet
Rebecca Penty for Bloomberg Business: TransCanada Corp., the pipeline and power generation company, said third-quarter profit fell as lower electricity prices in Alberta and disruptions at its Bruce...
View ArticleAlberta Scraps Fossil-Fuel Agenda
Gene Laverty for SNL: Alberta, Canada’s largest energy-producing province, will phase out within 15 years coal-fired generators that provide the bulk of its power, cap emissions from oil sands plants...
View ArticleDivestiture Movement, Deepening Distress of Coal Industry, Emerging Battles...
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, MARCH 14-16; EXPERTS FROM EUROPE, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, AND THE AMERICAS NEW YORK, Feb. 29, 2016 — The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) today announced a...
View ArticleA Marquee ‘Clean Coal’ Project Is Failing
Ian Austen for the New York Times: An electrical plant on the Saskatchewan prairie was the great hope for industries that burn coal. In the first large-scale project of its kind, the plant was equipped...
View ArticleWorkers in Canada Propose Renewable-Energy Expansion
Justin Brake for the Independent (Newfoundland): It began as a conversation around the worktable in the oil sands and has turned into an important national initiative to help workers adjust to the...
View ArticleIn ‘Three Amigos’ Energy-Transition Agreement, North America Grows Closer as...
Jean Chemnick and Emily Holden for E&E: North America’s energy politics got a little more intertwined yesterday as President Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President...
View ArticleA Canadian Province Moves Aggressively Toward Development of a New Energy...
Jason Chee-Alloy, an energy market analyst with PowerAdvisory LLC in Toronto, is out with a valuable overview of Alberta’s plan to transform its electricity grid to zero coal consumption by 2030....
View ArticleAlberta Moves to Protect Taxpayers From Coal-Mine Cleanup Costs
Tracy Johnson for CBC News: As Alberta moves away from coal-fired electricity, the provincial government is trying to ensure it will not be on the hook to clean up old coal mines once they stop...
View ArticleShell Divesting From $1 Billion in Canadian Oil-Sand Assets
Chester Dawson for the Wall Street Journal: Royal Dutch Shell PLC said it had reached a deal to sell $1 billion of shale-oil and gas assets in Western Canada as part of a global divestment program to...
View ArticleIEEFA Report: Three Timely Takeaways on 2016 Global Energy Transformation
Three notable takeaways emerge from the rapid transformation of the global energy economy, as we detail in a new paper we published today as the landmark Paris Agreement officially goes into effect....
View ArticleElection Outcome Means ‘Much Work to Do’ for Pipeline Opponents
Ernest Scheyder and Valerie Volcovici for Reuters:The surprising victory by Native American and environmental groups in September to delay the Dakota Access Pipeline may turn out to be short-lived,...
View ArticleCanada Plans Coal Phase-Out by 2030
Ethan Lou for Reuters: Canada will announce on Monday a plan to virtually eliminate the use of traditional coal-fired electricity by 2030, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported, citing anonymous...
View ArticleOil Companies Begin to Consider ‘Eventual Abandonment’ of Reserves
Sarah Kent, Bradley Olson and Georgi Kantchev for the Wall Street Journal: A new era of low crude prices and stricter regulations on climate change is pushing energy companies and resource-rich...
View ArticleMarket Tide Buries Canadian Oil Sands
SNL: In the last month, Royal Dutch Shell plc and Conoco Inc. shed most of their upstream oil sands operations in the country in a pair of deals that valued their assets at just over C$30 billion....
View ArticleIEEFA Investor Memo ExxonMobil (XOM): Company Is an ‘Outlier’ in How It...
April 17, 2017 (IEEFA.org) – The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) today published an investor memo questioning whether ExxonMobil has appropriately accounted for its...
View ArticleSetback to Kinder Morgan’s Canadian Oil Sands Pipeline Project
Reuters: British Columbia will not allow Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd to begin work on public land for its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion until it “meaningfully” consults aboriginal communities,...
View ArticleCanada, Netherlands, U.K. Join List of Countries Turning Against Coal
Power Magazine: The Netherlands, a country that recently commissioned three state-of-the-art coal plants and has been reluctant to close them, on October 10 moved to phase out coal power by 2030....
View ArticleOn the Blogs: Canada, U.K., and Netherlands in Pact to Phase Out Coal
International Institute for Sustainable Development: One indication that the global transition towards low-carbon forms of energy is picking up speed is the decline in demand for coal, as renewable...
View ArticleIn Coal Phase-Outs, Canada and U.K. Part With U.S.
Globe and Mail: Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and her British counterpart, Claire Perry, will launch an international alliance to phase out coal-fired electricity at the Bonn climate summit...
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