oil sands

CHARBONNEAU – Remove oil sands from the equation and Canada’s economy is comparable

August 22, 2024 // 2 Comments

THERE HAS BEEN a lot of hand-wringing about the state of Canada’s economy. You would think the sky was falling. But depending on how you measure the economy, it’s not as [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Alberta is booming again and renewables will suffer

November 2, 2023 // 0 Comments

AS LONG AS THE FUTURE for green energy looked bright, Alberta was leading Canada in renewable energy growth. The multibillion-dollar investment over the past few years has [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Decision to scrap huge oil sands mine is no cause for tears

February 26, 2020 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WEEP NOT for the Teck Resources Frontier oil sands mine. Reasons for cancellation of the $20-billion project near Fort McMurray and not far [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s a big, wide world, and it all eventually comes to Kamloops

February 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

EVERYWHERE I WENT this week, there were small signs of the bigger happenings. First I drove to Lytton and back to Kamloops. On railway sidings from Kamloops down to Lytton [Continue]

POLITICS – Anti-Alberta bigotry clothed in environmental clichés and platitudes

August 10, 2019 // 3 Comments

It is anyone’s guess how long Albertans will put up with this assault on their interests and insult to their self-respect By BARRY COOPER University of Calgary DAVE YAGER [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – When nature gives you tar sands, make carbon fibres

November 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

OIL SANDS crude prices have hit rock bottom. The future could be in the tar -the bitumen. The original name for the deposits, tar sands, should be restored because that’s [Continue]