Oil and gas is a very lucrative business, and very generous to Alberta and to Canada. Every year it favours us with many billions of…

Last year Ottawa passed a bill (Bill C-59) that contained a modest amendment to the Competition Act requiring companies to provide evidence to back up their…

Conservatives love rhyming slogans. Alberta’s Conservative government has come up with a dandy in their latest fight with the feds: “scrap the cap.” The cap…

I believe in free markets, at least for most commerce. As do most Albertans. Partly because they believe a free market in oil made them…

Oil companies have been up and down about investing more of their profits in green energy. Having made promises to do just that, recently they…

Maybe it took an oilman to do it. When Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber of the United Arab Emirates was appointed President of the UN Climate…

Forty-one states and the District of Columbia have sued Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, accusing it of using features that hook children…

On March 20 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the final instalment of its Sixth Assessment Report. The report resulted from the work…

The money just rolls in—$892 per second. We are wallowing in it. Alberta’s non-renewable resource revenue for the 2022/23 fiscal year is the highest in…

The oil companies are rolling in it. According to the Pembina Institute their free cash flow will add up to $153-billion this year, the highest…

Alberta’s government and its oil companies are playing a bit of a shell game with GHG emissions. The story for the public is that the…

Having lived in Alberta on and off for over 60 years, I’ve seen my share of boom and bust cycles, perhaps our most well known…