Gas
October 01, 2007
By Sebastian Gault
Aside from inspiring an entire cottage industry of overnight experts, one side effect of this fall’s Alberta royalty review was the practice of faultfinding – particularly of the oil & gas industry. But in accepting the overall message of the review panel that industry has been blatantly robbing past, present and future Albertans of their fair share of the economic rent from hydrocarbon production, the government may have done more than sow the seeds of its own corpulent destruction. It just might take the rest of us with it More →
April 10, 2007
By Tim le Riche
When natural gas prices dropped below $4 per gigajoule (GJ) in early October 2006, down from record highs above $12 per GJ the previous January, Dan Collins was able to coolly respond: “We expected that.” More →
April 01, 2007
By Aimee Lorefice Mains
A $4.5-billion LNG and petrochemicals facility is slated for the population depressed port town of Goldboro, Nova Scotia. The facility would be the first of its kind in the region. After three decades of decreasing population, things are finally looking up More →
April 01, 2007
By Sebastian Gault
The phrase "energy superepower" is still bandied about and images of a Great Canadian petro-state swaggering on the world stage might not only unsettle our trading partners but also undermine our credibility abroad as a carefully managed resource state More →
July 01, 2006
By Graham Chandler
After years of delay, distraction and political dithering, a turning point in the exploitation of this resource has probably been reached – and the Mackenzie River valley is poised to become the central right of way for moving the gas to market More →
April 01, 2006
By Dina O’Meara
Behind its plain, prairie wrapping, Saskatchewan is the second largest crude oil producer in Canada, pumping out approximately 20 per cent of national production, as well as the third largest natural gas producer in the country More →
April 01, 2006
By Malcolm Sword
Even though coalbed methane emerged first, gas shales have enormous potential in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin; it is indeed fertile ground and home to a number of major geological members of tight, low-permeability shales between northeastern British Columbia and southeastern Saskatchewan More →
April 01, 2006
By Leah Lawrence
Calgary-based Talisman Energy Inc. leads its North American-based peers in international oil and gas development More →
April 01, 2006
By Leah Lawrence
North America’s appetite for natural gas grows insatiably, year after year. As North American producers drill natural gas wells in record numbers to satiate this demand, they are only able to find enough reserves to replace, not grow, existing supply More →
January 07, 2005
By Gayl Veinotte
Hi-tech industry and traditional jobs make southeastern Alberta a study in contrasts More →
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