IEEFA Update: The Many Risks in Rising Oil Prices
OPEC member nations alongside other oil-producing countries yesterday announced the continuation of production cuts through 2018 in a move designed to keep prices rising. Last year, as the first wave...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Electricity-Generation Transition in Canada
Globe and Mail: While momentum is clearly building to end pollution from burning coal, a change of that magnitude takes time. As environmental organizations reported this week, some Canadian companies...
View ArticleCanada’s Electricity-Generation From Fossil Fuels Drops to 20 Percent
CBC News: NEB chief economist Shelley Milutinovic said the trend in Canada is that renewable energy sources like wind and solar are replacing coal as Canada moves to eliminate that as a source of...
View ArticleIn Shift to Renewables, Alberta Sees 7,000 Jobs and $10 Billion in Private...
Edmonton Journal: The province is taking more bids from companies interested in producing renewable electricity as part of a plan to shift 30 per cent of Alberta’s grid to green sources by 2030. The...
View ArticleB.C. Pipeline Opposition Roils Canadian Politics
Bloomberg: British Columbia Premier John Horgan, who has vowed to use every possible means to thwart a Kinder Morgan Inc. pipeline expansion, was told by legal advisers last year before taking power...
View ArticleCommentary: Trans Mountain Financial Problems Are Kinder Morgan’s Issue, Not...
National Observer: In an unusual action for a Sunday afternoon, on April 8, 2018, Kinder Morgan Canada Limited (KML) issued a press release announcing it had taken the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion...
View ArticleCanada to Buy Troubled Trans Mountain Pipeline
Reuters: Canada will buy Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd’s Trans Mountain pipeline for C$4.5 billion ($3.5 billion), the government said on Tuesday, hoping to save a project that faces formidable political...
View ArticleOn the Blogs: Houston-Based Kinder Morgan Gets a Canadian Bailout
Sightline Institute: In his continuing bid to earn his country the title of most corrupt petro-state, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau just committed his government—or, rather, all of the...
View ArticleOn the blogs: billionaire Houston oilman is the winner in Canada’s rescue of...
Sightlines Institute: In his continuing bid to earn his country the title of most corrupt petro-state, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau just committed his government—or, rather, all of the...
View ArticleAs global transition gains momentum, institutional investors question G7’s...
Reuters: Institutional investors with $26 trillion in assets under management called on Group of Seven leaders on Monday to phase out the use of coal in power generation to help limit climate change,...
View ArticleIEEFA report: ‘Canada’s Folly’ could drive national budget deficit 36% higher...
June 26, 2018 (IEEFA)— Canada could see its budget deficit grow by more than a third with the national government’s purchase of the Trans Mountain Pipeline from Houston-based Kinder Morgan, according...
View ArticleTrans Mountain Pipeline a bad investment for Canada—IEEFA
The Canadian Press: The federal government’s purchase of the Trans Mountain Pipeline will add significantly to the deficit next year, according to a study by a sustainable energy research group. Buying...
View ArticleCommentary: Pipeline purchase likely to leave Canadian taxpayers on the hook
Fortune.com: The Canadian government’s decision to buy the Trans Mountain Pipeline and expansion project for 4.5 billion Canadian dollars has left many wondering: What is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
View ArticleIEEFA update: U.S.-Canada trade tensions could scuttle Kinder Morgan sale of...
The fate of the unfinished Trans Mountain Pipeline in western Canada may be determined 3,000 miles away — in Washington. The stalled project, designed to link oil-sands fields in Alberta with West...
View ArticleKinder Morgan filings have Trans Mountain Pipeline costing Canadian...
Canadian Press service: Kinder Morgan Canada documents say expanding the Trans Mountain pipeline could cost the federal government an additional $1.9 billion (US$1.5 billion) beyond the company’s...
View ArticleResistance growing to Canada’s planned purchase of Kinder Morgan pipeline
247WallStreet.com: Canadian resistance to buying the Trans Mountain pipeline system Kinder Morgan Inc. subsidiary Kinder Morgan Canada is increasing, and with it so is short interest in Kinder Morgan....
View ArticleFluence announces largest Canadian battery storage project
Energy Storage News: A vast new energy storage system – thought to be the largest of its kind in Canada to date with 48 MW/144 MWh capacity, will be built in the city of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario....
View ArticleCanadian court deals major blow to Trans Mountain Pipeline
Reuters: A Canadian court on Thursday overturned approval of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion, ruling that Ottawa failed to adequately consider aboriginal concerns, in a blow to Prime Minister...
View ArticleCanada to try again on Trans Mountain project
Reuters: Canada will not appeal a court ruling that overturned its approval of an oil pipeline expansion project, opting instead for more consultations with aboriginal groups unhappy about the plan, a...
View ArticleCanada to try again on Trans Mountain project
Reuters: Canada will not appeal a court ruling that overturned its approval of an oil pipeline expansion project, opting instead for more consultations with aboriginal groups unhappy about the plan, a...
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