Increasing Energy Exports is Canada’s Best Response to Rising Living Costs

If you have noticed rising costs at the grocery store, gas pump, your favourite restaurants or anywhere else in your daily life, you are not alone. Today, much of the world is struggling with supply shortages and increased living costs associated with the technical term “inflation.” For the firs...


Reality: It’s 2022, and Strong Global Oil Demand is Here to Stay

Despite predictions of "peak oil" over the years, growing global oil demand seems here to stay, at least in the short to medium term. Following the global energy crisis of 2021 – and its 2022 sequel – it's clear the world will need all forms of supply to keep the lights on and the economy rollin...


Global Energy Crisis in 2021: What Can We Learn?

Unless you want to spend most of Christmas trying to explain to the kids about limited reindeer capacity or elf worker shortages, buy those high-demand toys now. They might just not make it to Black Friday given the energy crisis underway in Europe, which according to many energy analysts has th...


Canada’s Helium Opportunity: More Than Just 'Party Balloons'

Party balloons that, when the contents were inhaled, made your voice sound like Mickey Mouse is what most people remember when they hear the word ‘helium.’ An admittedly risky party trick, making our family and friends laugh at social gatherings was fun nonetheless. But we shouldn’t be too hard ...


A Closer Look at the IEA's Pathway to Net-Zero by 2050

Key Points • The IEA's Net-Zero to 2050 scenario requires massive changes to the global energy infrastructure system and record-setting deployments of renewables and EVs • Current actions by governments in parts of the world will make it extremely difficult for the IEA's scenario to come to frui...


Who Said Indigenous Peoples Don’t Work in the Energy Sector?

Indigenous People do work in the energy sector, just like me! Whoever said we didn’t, or that we don’t support the oil and gas industry is not being honest about the will of the majority of Indigenous Peoples in Western Canada who support responsible and inclusive natural resource development in...


The World Needs All Forms of Energy for Decades to Come

Galvanized by the cancellation of Keystone XL, pipeline detractors are now turning their sights to other major projects such as Line 3, Line 5 and the Trans Mountain Expansion. I can only imagine some of the rallying cries now bellowing from activists’ mouths (or perhaps clanking away on their k...