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Missing from the debate about reducing carbon emissions is a real sense of what a lower carbon future might look like for the fossil fuel industry. In Canada, the federal energy regulator has offered its opinion – and it’s not all doom and gloom. [Gas in Transition, Volume 3, Issue 6]
iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Mar 1, 2021 12:50pm An oil terminal in North York, Ont. (Rene Johnston/Toronto Star) The Lead A Reuters survey has found that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’s (OPEC) oil output fell to 24.89 million barrels per day (bdp) in February. This value was down 870,000 bpd from January, reflecting the first monthly decline since June 2020. “So far, the members of the alliance have been cooperating and implementing the cuts in exemplary fashion,” said analyst Eugen Weinberg at Commerzbank. “We believe that the high price...
The CER's senior leadership recently sat down for a virtual interview with CBC News. They said the regulator, formerly the National Energy Board, hasn't lived up to its obligations to First Nations, Métis and Inuit. "From the organization's perspective, I acknowledge that systemic racism exists. We as an organization need to acknowledge that and to acknowledge our part in that," said Gitane De Silva, the regulator's CEO. "The NEB has operated in a way that discounted Indigenous people, that saw them as an obstacle, that was adversarial," added Cassie Doyle, the CER's chairperson. Fede...
Why BC’s natural gas sector looks so bright By Nelson Bennett | January 29, 2021, 12:38pm Pacific Canbriam uses holding ponds and pipelines to recycle 100% of the water used in its hydraulic fracturing operations in B.C. | Pacific Canbriam The year just passed was one of the worst in decades for Canada’s oil and gas sector. The Petroleum Services Association of Canada reckons the 3,100 oil and gas wells that were estimated to have been drilled in Canada in 2020 was the lowest since 1972, thanks to the pandemic and low oil prices. It’s estimated employm...
BURNABY, B.C. -- The Canada Energy Regulator says a contractor was seriously injured Tuesday at a construction site for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in British Columbia. Chief executive officer Gitane De Silva said in a statement Wednesday that her thoughts are with the person who was hurt, their family, fellow workers and others affected. An emailed statement from Trans Mountain late Wednesday confirmed that an employee of a contractor was seriously injured at the Burnaby Terminal on Tuesday afternoon. “The individual remains in hospital in stable condition and our...