So there I sat last Thursday, at home, watching Calgary Snowpocalypse 2018 unfold all around me. Calgary received at last count about 35 to 50 cm of snow in 24 hours. In non-metric speak, that is about 12 to 18 inches. Part and parcel of that is a snow day, because driving in these conditions can at best be described as white knuckled terror. Of course as we all know, it’s not the driving so much as the drivers. Anyway, there I sat, wondering if I should go to the well one last time on this [Read more]
Crude Observations: Dear Premier Horgan,
Last week’s ranty diatribe about the Canadian energy sector sure seemed to strike a nerve with a number of readers, as it certainly appears that there are many people who, like me, are completely frustrated with the state of the industry and the attitude of various levels of government towards it. This frustration reached an almost fever pitch this week as the BC provincial government announced on Tuesday that it would appoint a special council to study and comment on diluted bitumen and what [Read more]
Crude Observations: Canada’s oilpatch not out of the woods yet despite better oil and gas prices
This is one of those weeks where there was a lot of stuff getting under my skin or poking at me. Irritatingly tapping me on the shoulder to the point where I almost felt the need to turn around and scream “What!?!?!?!” until I realized of course that my co-workers might very well have me committed! That little voice in the back of my head was pretty insistent, but not overbearing and what it kept repeating over and over was the same phrase – “we’re not out of the woods yet, eh?” Yes I know [Read more]