Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta produced 18.3 million cubic metres of crude oil and equivalent products in October, down 4.9 per cent, as a result of reduced oil sands activity
Tag: Saskatchewan economy
Cold, wet weather stings Prairies’ honey production
Reading Time: 2 minutes Fell by 35 per cent in Alberta, 1.9 per cent in Manitoba and by 1.4 per cent in Saskatchewan
Virtual reality tool will track changes in the oil, gas industry
Reading Time: 2 minutes Users can experience everything from watching a smart pig detect the health of a pipeline to seeing the largest trucks in the world at work
Oil drilling industry pressures Ottawa
Reading Time: 2 minutes Industry blames ‘punitive’ federal policies and regulations for its struggles
Could Canada’s costly innovation help solve China’s coal dilemma?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Saskatchewan’s $1.5-billion CCS demonstration facility at Boundary Dam in the southern part of the province is the first commercial-scale CCS project in the world
Killing the goose that laid the golden egg
Reading Time: 4 minutes Increasingly harsh and ever-shifting resource-related government policies are killing jobs and making Canadians poorer
Alberta still loses if resource revenue removed from equalization
Reading Time: 3 minutes Options for reform are severely limited so long as a rule requiring program costs to escalate every year remains
Should equalization really grow forever?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A rule requiring payments to grow – no matter what the circumstances – can only exacerbate regional friction
Driving the next wave of clean resource innovation
Reading Time: 3 minutes If Ottawa is serious about clean energy, the bureaucrats and politicians pulling the levers would do well to learn about CRIN and its potential
It’s time for a cross-country, face-to-face energy conversation
Reading Time: 3 minutes The petroleum sector needs to move in synch with changing societal expectations. And Canadians will be surprised to discover how far the sector has progressed