Justin Trudeau's federal government on Monday imposed a landmark carbon tax on four provinces which had defied Ottawa's push to combat climate change, prompting unhappy premiers to say they would challenge the measure. Trudeau, citing international commitments to fight global warming, had made clear for two years he would slap the tax on any of the 10 provinces that did not come up with their own plans by April 1. The measure is opposed by Ontario, the most populous province, where [Read more]
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Newfoundland and Labrador to get word this evening on Atlantic Accord
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador's premier will update his province tonight on negotiations to revise the Atlantic Accord, a crucial federal-provincial agreement on offshore resource revenues. Premier Dwight Ball and federal cabinet minister Seamus O'Regan are holding a joint media event in St. John's, N.L., at 6 p.m. local time. The review was to assess the extent to which Newfoundland and Labrador has reaped majority benefit from its offshore resources. Ball [Read more]
Who will be Alberta’s next Premier? Don’t miss out on this exclusive event!
Join us for an announcement of exclusive poll results uncovering Albertans’ voting intentions, followed by a lively panel featuring some of Calgary's most prominent media personalities who will discuss the upcoming General Election and hot button energy issues. Wednesday, April 3rd. 2019 7:00 am - 9:00 am Calgary Petroleum Club Click here to get your tickets [Read more]
Pieridae Achieves Major Step Forward – Engages EPC Contractor KBR
CALGARY, Alberta, April 01, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pieridae Energy Limited (Pieridae) (TSXV: PEA) is pleased to announce that the respected global engineering firm of Kellogg Brown & Root Limited (KBR) has been engaged to perform a review of an amended version of the previously prepared front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for the proposed Goldboro LNG facility. KBR will also conduct an open-book estimate necessary for entering into a lump sum turnkey engineering, procurement and [Read more]
CAPP and CEPA join Canadian Gas Dialogues – April 23, Calgary, Alberta
Book your seat today! Benefit from a 10% reduction on your ticket courtesy of BOE Report, the Official Media Partner of Canadian Gas Dialogues. Please use the following promotional code on check-out: BOEReport2019 The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association joined as Supporting Organizations ofCanadian Gas Dialogues. In an increasingly natural gas focused world, will Canada be able to take advantage of its resources in the global [Read more]
Register for the SPE/CHOA Slugging it Out Conference today!
There's still time to join the SPE/CHOA Slugging It Out Conference taking place 16 April 2019. If you're part of the heavy oil community, then this valuable, one-day conference is the place to be to learn, share, connect, and network. Highlights of the day’s events include: An Opening Keynote presentation discussing Rail's Role in Accessing the Market, featuring Keith Chiasson, Executive Vice President Downstream, Cenovus Energy Inc. Technical presentations from Acceleware, Aucerna, [Read more]
John Robson: How would you know?
A lot of people know that man-made CO2 controls climate change, we're in the midst of unprecedented and dangerous warming, and only a handful of oil-funded skeptics claim otherwise. They’ve been told it ad nauseum by every level of authority in society for the past decade. But what if they hadn’t? How would they know? Looking out my window in Ottawa, where it snowed yesterday and today and we tied the record for most days with at least 10 cm of snow cover, just in time for the new carbon tax [Read more]
Kenney and United Conservatives promise $714-million budget surplus by 2023
CALGARY - The United Conservatives are promising to get Alberta's books out of the red and into a $714-million surplus by 2023 — a year earlier than the NDP. The party also says if it wins the spring election, it will raise Alberta's debt level to $86 billion over that time period, a figure that is well below current government projections. "This is a very mainstream, balanced approach to gradually getting to balance without any absolute reductions in spending," UCP Leader Jason Kenney [Read more]
Trump issues new permit for stalled Keystone XL pipeline
WASHINGTON - In an apparent bid to kick-start the long-stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline, President Donald Trump on Friday issued a new presidential permit for the project, two years after he first approved it and more than a decade after it was first proposed. Trump said the permit issued Friday replaces one granted in March 2017. The order is intended speed up development of the controversial pipeline, which would ship crude oil from tar sands in western Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. A [Read more]
Canada Weekly Rig Count Down 17 to 88
Western Canada’s fleet of drilling rigs decreased by 17 rigs to a total of 88 according to data collected by Baker Hughes for the week of March 29th. From last Friday, Alberta rig counts went from 85 to 68. Saskatchewan's rig count from 3 to 2. Oil drilling went from 49 to 35; natural gas rigs went from 56 to 53. View a full breakdown of western Canada’s rig activity. [Read more]