Setting the record straight on the day’s top anti-oil and gas media stories ACTIVIST CLAIM: Global Witness ‘report’ on hydrogen made with natural gas and carbon tech claims industry using it to prolong oil and gas development and pollute. THE FACTS: Carbon tech still reduces emissions when used to make products like blue hydrogen from oil and gas – and the tech is only getting better. THE SOURCES: HYDROGEN’S HIDDEN EMISSIONS: Shell’s misleading climate claims for its Canadian fossil [Read more]
We can support energy workers by supporting responsible energy production
Last week, TD Canada released a new report on Canada’s energy transition and how it could negatively affect oil and gas workers. The report notes that due to the reduction in North American demand for oil and gas products, hundreds of thousands of workers could be out of their jobs if the government does not support them through a transition. TD estimates that 50-75% of the current energy sector workforce could be at risk with an energy transition in North America. This means that up to 450,000 [Read more]
Column: When it comes to COVID aid, the oil and gas industry got put on hold.
When it came to COVID-19 financial support, the oil and gas industry got put on hold. Well-funded anti-oil and gas campaigners are using the old magician's trick of "look over there so you don't notice what's going on over here". For some time we have seen sensational claims the oil and gas industry is receiving billions in subsidies and the campaigns to end them. It's just the oil and gas industry isn't getting these subsidies and so their campaigns to end them succeeded before they started. [Read more]
Column: Don’t believe the activists, natural gas stoves are fine to use
Gourmets have been long-time aficionados of gas stoves because they provide better quality heat that is easy to control quickly. Most people prefer a gas stove as a better choice for cooking. Now the same people who are telling you not to eat meat are telling you not to be better cooks either. Most recently, they have been using a heavily biased report that was authored by the Sierra Club and the Rocky Mountain Institute. It goes without saying these authors have a biased view on fossil [Read more]
Column: Keystone XL’s cancelation has fringe anti-oil and gas groups gearing up to fight Trans Mountain
There is no doubt that Keystone XL’s cancellation was a massive gut punch to the oil and gas industry and Canada’s security. After a battle of over 12 years, legal challenges, and billions in up-front investment to finally have pile laid across the border looked to be a success, but instead, it became a devastating loss. Now buoyed by their Keystone success, Canadian and American radical activists are once again turning their attention back to killing the Trans Mountain expansion [Read more]
Following the money that canceled Keystone
Prime Minister Trudeau says he is disappointed in President Biden’s decision to revoke permits for the Keystone XL pipeline, but is he surprised? This incredible success of a nearly decade-long campaign to cancel the pipeline counts Biden as an ally in their ‘build back better’ coalition. Recently Trudeau also signalled his alignment with the ‘build back better’ and ‘great reset’ global initiatives with important public addresses. With powerful friends like that perhaps no one should be shocked [Read more]
Column: The world needs more Canadian oil and gas, not less
Pretty much since the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion was proposed, it has been fought tooth and nail by “Keep It In The Ground” anti-oil and gas activists. Some of the latest attacks on this pipeline include a call to action from the Rockefeller Foundation funded anti-oil activist group, 350.org. In character, 350.org misrepresents recent reports from Parliamentary Budget Officer and Canadian Energy Regulator. They claimed that recent reports by the Parliamentary Budget Office and the [Read more]
Column: It has been 5 months and little help in sight for the oil and gas sector.
Ticktock, ticktock. That is the sound of clocks at oil and gas companies still waiting to hear back on the short-term assistance that was announced by the Federal Government in April. Many now face looming restructurings, sell-offs or insolvency in a distressed market. What went wrong? An industry facing the double whammy of Saudi Russian manipulation and the economic collapse caused by COVID-19 was looking for a liquidity lifeline so they could weather a unique storm. The energy [Read more]
Line 5 shutdown and what that means for Canadians
A court decision in Michigan could have major implications for the energy security of Ontario and Quebec. Last week, a Michigan judge ordered the temporary shutdown of Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline that runs from Superior, Wisconsin to refineries in Sarnia, Ontario. Shutting down Line 5 has serious implications, for residents of Ontario and Quebec, as well as Michigan itself. Line 5 transports 540,000 barrels per day of oil and natural gas liquids into the Sarnia area (about half of the [Read more]
Column: Swedish-backed report hopes to steer Canadian policy makers away from oil and gas developments
A new report from the Swedish-funded Stockholm Environment Institute is hoping to steer energy policy makers in Canada away from supporting new oil and gas developments. The report looks at the risks associated with new oil and gas developments in Canada. Its long-term supply and demand analysis is especially helpful—many industry leaders, economists, and market analysts are still trying to understand the five W’s of the market collapse from March and other effects from COVID-19. However, [Read more]