By Heather Douglas Cloaked in their green duplicity, the Government of Quebec, the mayors around Montreal, and the federal Quebec politicians rejoiced when TransCanada (TSX:TRP) cancelled the Energy East Pipeline. Yet in 2014 the province authorized the building and operation of Quebec’s largest carbon dioxide polluter, a cement plant along the Gaspe Peninsula, which potentially…
CNOOC Cancels B.C.’s Aurora LNG Project The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) agreed to fund First Nations participation in the Aurora LNG project. The Aurora LNG project, operated by Nexen Energy – a wholly-owned subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corp. Ltd. (CNOOC) – and INPEX Gas British Columbia jointly announced mid-September 2017 the partners…
Australia becomes the largest LNG exporter to Japan, overtaking Qatar and Malaysia, the two biggest previously. “The United States is playing a major role in transforming the global LNG markets as it marches toward becoming the third largest LNG exporting nation in the world,” says Srirama Palagummi, Harry Vidas, and Eric Kuhle, with ICF, a…
By Heather Douglas Despite the “alleged poor global LNG market conditions,” the global hot commodity in energy is actually liquefied natural gas (LNG) and, according to a recently released report, it is expected to grow four to six per cent yearly for the next eight to 10 years, in contrast to an estimated one to…
By Bill Stomp Traditional advertising might be dead. Marketers have been debating how dead it really is since the late 1990’s when they realized the internet and the digital revolution were not a fad. Over the last seven years it has become obvious, too, that the mobile era of advertising is also not a fad…
The seemingly unstoppable expansion of bureaucratic burdens “Several individuals gave high praise … there was even a round of applause. Once I saw this positive reaction I informed them that it was I who conceived, planned, and implemented the whole thing.” This is from an internal Industry Canada email, it absolutely must be sarcasm. The…
