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The Oil Big Five: Clear your calendar for November’s news
November didn’t waste any time with big news stories featuring oil issues, and some of us are still trying to catch up on the sleep lost watching the outcomes of the US elections on November 4. Looking...
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Keystone XL was theater, but it was good theater
This week’s Keystone XL drama in the US Senate was flush with the political party infighting, partisan sniping and naked political theater that critics of Washington, DC tend to hate most. It also...
View ArticleObama veteran questions State Dept. jurisdiction on XL pipeline
The Obama administration has taken a lot of heat over its years-long review of the Keystone XL pipeline. Among the questions is whether the Department of State, where the project is still under...
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How the Keystone XL pipeline became a steel standoff between neighbors
In North America, 2015 has started with a curious amalgam of steel and oil news, both involving business between the US and Canada. The most well-known story is the saga of the Keystone XL pipeline....
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Canadian oil producers need to learn lessons from Keystone XL saga: New...
Canada is pursuing projects that will have a major impact not only on national production, but on the North American oil landscape as a whole, as Ashok Dutta explains in New Frontiers, this week’s...
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Poll: Do you think the US will approve the Keystone XL pipeline?
With the end of the Obama administration in sight (or at least the 2016 presidential campaigns already making headlines), signs point toward a deadline on the Keystone XL decision. In a press briefing...
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The Keystone XL saga: missed chances, shifting sands — Fuel for Thought
If Bill O’Reilly, author of such books as “Killing Lincoln” and “Killing Kennedy” were to turn his attention to pipelines, his next book might be entitled “Killing Keystone.” It would be a tale full of...
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Political promises squeeze Canadian oil industry
The oil industry had eight years of an energy friendly government in Canada and couldn’t get a single new export pipeline built. Now, with newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau keeping his...
View ArticleIn Canada, a battle brews over pipelines, power lines: Fuel for Thought
With the current assumption that a crude export pipeline from Alberta to the US Gulf Coast is unlikely to ever be built, never has there been a better opportunity for Canada’s provinces to join hands...
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Keystone XL saga enters second decade: Fuel for Thought
Last week marked a decade since TransCanada first applied to build the Keystone XL heavy oil pipeline from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast, and the project’s fate is not much clearer today. The failure...
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