Amid Trump tax cuts and reduced regulations in the U.S., and robust activity in premium basins like the prolific Permian, Canada’s battered energy sector is looking for some relief. As U.S. output soars to all time record levels, driven by technology partly developed north of the border, Canada risks losing its edge, panelists told the Calgary Energy Roundtable.
October 15, 2018, 6 AM MDT
The federal government should pause and review its plans for Bill C-69, currently before the Senate, to further consider the long-term impacts of major changes to federal legislation on the Canadian economy, says the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP).
October 15, 2018, 10:18 AM MDT
The National Energy Board has released a hearing order setting out a schedule for reconsideration of its May 2016 report related to project-related marine shipping impacts of the Trans Mountain expansion.
October 15, 2018, 6 AM MDT
The National Energy Board (NEB) has temporarily adjourned the hearing and application assessment process for Trans Mountain’s Westridge delivery line relocation and upsizing.
October 12, 2018, 11:02 AM MDT
October 12, 2018, 3:37 AM MDT
October 12, 2018, 9:40 AM MDT
When it comes to public engagement on pipeline projects, the oil and gas industry might consider “changing the channel” to a conversation on what people really care about, a pipeline company executive suggested Wednesday.
October 11, 2018, 8:05 AM MDT
The lawyer for British Columbia environmental activist Mike Sawyer is urging the National Energy Board (NEB) to “treat with urgency” the timing of its initial decision on the issue of jurisdiction for the Coastal GasLink project.
October 11, 2018, 12 AM MDT
The federal government is still listening to industry’s viewpoints on Bill C-69, according to Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi, noting that the process of providing input into the bill continues.
October 11, 2018, 12 AM MDT
Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi expanded on why the government decided not to appeal the Federal Court of Appeal decision quashing the approval of the Trans Mountain expansion.
October 11, 2018, 12 AM MDT
Canadian Natural Resources Limited’s recent purchase of the Joslyn oilsands asset appears to be not just about additional mining prospects.
October 11, 2018, 3:26 AM MDT
October 11, 2018, 3:46 AM MDT
High on the agenda of Alberta United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney is to repeal the carbon tax for everyday Albertans and impose a levy on the largest carbon emitters in the province.
October 10, 2018, 8:28 AM MDT
October 10, 2018, 3:45 AM MDT
A total of 99 groups or individuals will be permitted to participate as intervenors in the National Energy Board’s (NEB) reconsideration hearing on certain aspects of its report to the federal cabinet on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
October 9, 2018, 8:23 AM MDT
Pulse Oil Corp. anticipates receiving regulatory approval by the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) for the transfer of its next Bigoray well, located in the Bigoray Nisku E Pool, to be reactivated from the Orphan Well Association (OWA), by Oct. 23, 2018.
October 9, 2018, 7:13 AM MDT
If initial filings from potential interveners are anything to go by, the National Energy Board will have its work cut out for it as it undertakes a proceeding to reconsider aspects of its report to the federal cabinet on the Trans Mountain expansion.
October 4, 2018, 11:07 AM MDT
The federal government will freeze the terms of existing offshore oil and gas licences in the Arctic offshore to preserve existing rights as it consults with its northern partners on future oil and gas development.
October 4, 2018, 11:13 AM MDT
The federal government will not appeal a Federal Court of Appeal decision that quashed the federal cabinet approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, instead following the guidance from the court, the minister responsible said today.
October 3, 2018, 8:54 AM MDT
The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) is no longer requiring a hearing for Imperial Oil Limited’s Aspen project.
October 2, 2018, 3:50 AM MDT
October 1, 2018, 4:34 AM MDT
The BC Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) is adding nine seismic stations to the regional monitoring array to improve the detection of induced seismicity triggered by oil and gas activity.
September 28, 2018, 12 AM MDT
September 28, 2018, 7:04 AM MDT
The tortured history of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion proves that there needs to be a better way of regulating pipelines in Canada, the head of the government-owned company now overseeing the project said Wednesday.
September 27, 2018, 4:08 AM MDT
Alberta’s concerns with the Trudeau government’s plan to overhaul the regulatory process for major energy projects must be addressed with changes to the legislation itself and not just intentions of how it is implemented, Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips said on Wednesday.
September 27, 2018, 3:46 AM MDT