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Canadian Energy Centre

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]

Canada’s energy leaders send ‘urgent action plan’ to new federal government

38 oil and gas CEOs sign list of shared objectives, opportunities to work together By Deborah Jaremko The CEOs of 38 of Canada’s largest energy companies have a message for the new federal government: after all the discussion on the campaign trail about the need to flex Canada’s role as a global energy superpower, the time is now to take action. Heads of pipeline majors including Enbridge, TC Energy, Pembina and Inter Pipeline, chiefs of producers such as Canadian Natural Resources, Suncor [Read more]

Alberta oil sands projects poised to grow on lower costs, strong reserves

‘Existing oil sands projects deliver some of the lowest-breakeven oil in North America’ By Will Gibson As geopolitical uncertainty ripples through global energy markets, a new report says Alberta’s oil sands sector is positioned to grow thanks to its lower costs. Enverus Intelligence Research’s annual Oil Sands Play Fundamentals forecasts producers will boost output by 400,000 barrels per day (bbls/d) by the end of this decade through expansions of current operations. “Existing oil sands [Read more]

Canada’s pipeline builders ready to get to work

Leaders push to ‘substantially revisit’ Impact Assessment Act By Deborah Jaremko It was not a call he wanted to make. In October 2017, Kevin O’Donnell, then chief financial officer of Nisku, Alta.-based Banister Pipelines, got final word that the $16-billion Energy East pipeline was cancelled. It was his job to pass the news down the line to reach workers who were already in the field. “We had a crew that was working along the current TC Energy line that was ready for conversion [Read more]