Red Carpet Treatment
Politicians welcome industry with open arms and light royalties

Bigger Than Texas
B.C. shale is attracting attention and is ready to burst

Fitting In
Despite headlines, on the Peace frontier drilling is more natural than bombs

Financial Heartburn
Industry struggles to digest new disclosure rules

Communications Challenge
There is heavy lifting ahead for investor relations teams

Energy Shopping Center
Value hunters make gas change hands at a brisk pace

Wary New World
The capital market has lost its appetite for risk
by Patrycja Romanowska

Environment
Industry should look to family law to improve fairness of energy projects
By Cindy Chiasson

International
Tanker builders float mobile natural gas liquefaction concept
by Joe Fisher

Economics
Celebrity energy guru is engaging on stage, but trods on shaky economic ground
by Patrycja Romanowska

Editor’s Log
Expectations are running high on all fronts
by Gordon Jaremko

Observer
Overseas markets, green agendas and carbon cleanup

Services
Learning to see risks is magnified by a flawed oil price lens

Policy
NEB at 50: Energy watchdog is still lively after all these years

Transactions
A toll fracas has broken out since the world financial fiasco

Champions
Fossil fuel philosopher fingers environmental role of mass energy consumption

Passages
Beaver Drilling shows it can survive anything

Final Words
Pat Nelson: Defending Alberta’s resource jewel