‘Churchill presents huge opportunities when it comes to mining, agriculture and energy’ By Will Gibson In August 2024, a shipment of zinc concentrate departed from the Port of Churchill — marking the port’s first export of critical minerals in over two decades. Photo courtesy Arctic Gateway Group When flooding in northern Manitoba washed out the rail line connecting the Town of Churchill to the rest of the country in May 2017, it cast serious questions about the future of the community of 900 [Read more]
Temporary Alberta grid limit unlikely to dampen data centre investment, analyst says
‘Alberta has never seen this level and volume of load connection requests’ By Cody Ciona on July 14, 2025, 12:34 pm MDT Rendering of an AI data centre in Alberta. Image courtesy Stantec Billions of investment in new data centres is still expected in Alberta despite the province’s electric system operator placing a temporary limit on new large-load grid connections, said Carson Kearl, lead data centre analyst for Enverus Intelligence Research.Kearl cited NVIDIA CEO Jensen [Read more]
Keyera ‘Canadianizes’ natural gas liquids with $5.15 billion acquisition
Cross-Canada NGL corridor will stretch from B.C. to Ontario By Will Gibson on July 10, 2025, 11:31 am MDT Keyera Corp.'s natural gas liquids facilities in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta. Photo courtesy Keyera Corp. Sarnia, Ont., which sits on the southern tip of Lake Huron and peers across the St. Clair River to Michigan, is a crucial energy hub for much of the eastern half of Canada and parts of the United States.With more than 60 industrial facilities including refineries and chemical [Read more]
Fort St. John residents challenge Suzuki Foundation over misleading Montney image
Photo used in anti-oil and gas fundraising is of Wyoming By Will Gibson on July 8, 2025, 7:44 pm MDT Deena Del Giusto is one of eight residents of Fort St. John, B.C. who have filed a joint complaint to the Competition Bureau against the David Suzuki Foundation's use of misleading imagery to represent the Montney natural gas play. Photo supplied to the Canadian Energy Centre Twenty years ago during winter break from college in B.C.’s Fraser Valley, 19-year-old Deena Del Giusto [Read more]
Why it’s time to repeal the oil tanker ban on B.C.’s north coast
Moratorium does little to improve marine safety while sending the wrong message to energy investors By Will Gibson The Port of Prince Rupert on the north coast of British Columbia. Photo courtesy Prince Rupert Port Authority In 2019, Martha Hall Findlay, then-CEO of the Canada West Foundation, penned a strongly worded op-ed in the Globe and Mail calling the federal ban of oil tankers on B.C.’s northern coast “un-Canadian.”Six years later, her opinion hasn’t changed. “It was bad [Read more]
Haisla Nation tugboats guide first LNG carrier into Kitimat, B.C.
Historic trial run sets stage for Canada’s first LNG exports By Will Gibson HaiSea Marine tugboats guide the first LNG carrier into the LNG Canada terminal jetty on April 2, 2025. Photo courtesy HaiSea Marine Sinbad may have sailed the seven seas, but he never saw as much of the briny deep as Shawn Jones. Jones, who has spent almost three decades working on ships around the world, had both of his feet firmly planted ashore on an early April afternoon as HaiSea [Read more]
Natural gas pipeline ownership spreads across 36 First Nations in B.C.
Stonlasec8 agreement is Canada’s first federal Indigenous loan guarantee By CEC Staff Chief David Jimmie is president of Stonlasec8 and Chief of Squiala First Nation in B.C. He also chairs the Western Indigenous Pipeline Group. Photo courtesy Western Indigenous Pipeline Group The first federally backed Indigenous loan guarantee paves the way for increased prosperity for 36 First Nations communities in British Columbia.In May, Canada Development Investment Corporation [Read more]
RBC says Canada’s Indigenous owned energy projects are ‘economic reconciliation in action’
Indigenous equity opportunity in oil and gas valued at $58 billion over next 10 years By Grady Semmens Eva Clayton, back left, President of the Nisga'a Lisims Government (joint venture owner of the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG project), Crystal Smith, back right, Haisla Nation Chief Councillor (joint venture owner of the Cedar LNG project, now under construction), and Karen Ogen, front right, CEO of the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance pose for a photograph on the HaiSea Wamis zero-emission [Read more]
As LNG opens new markets for Canadian natural gas, reliance on U.S. to decline: analyst
Starting with LNG Canada, producers will finally have access to new customers overseas By Cody Ciona 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 gas exports will rise to 12 [Read more]
Energy projects occupy less than three per cent of Alberta’s oil sands region, report says
‘Much of the habitat across the region is in good condition’ By Will Gibson The footprint of energy development continues to occupy less than three per cent of Alberta’s oil sands region, according to a report by the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI). As of 2021, energy projects impacted just 2.6 per cent of the oil sands region, which encompasses about 142,000 square kilometers of boreal forest in northern Alberta, an area nearly the size of Montana. “There’s a mistaken [Read more]
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