37 rigs still in the field as winter drilling season is about to wrap up
The greenwashing act has not gone away. Op-Ed: Heather Exner-Pirot & Sonya Savage: Canada’s greenwashing amendment: A failure of process and policy
Pipeline Online Podcast Ep. 3: Chad Eggerman on Wind
Op-Ed: Aleana Young: Prairie Powerbroker: Energy Sovereignty and Economic Security for Saskatchewan.
Note: count how many times coal is mentioned.
Achieving Net Zero may be easier than we thought: Kelowna’s Development Future In Jeopardy Due To Insufficient Electrical Capacity
In what can only be described as a shocking letter, the Urban Development Institute said this week that development in Kelowna may come to a standstill as a result of insufficient electrical infrastructure.
“Kelowna’s real estate development industry is facing significant uncertainty as FortisBC has indicated it cannot guarantee power availability for new projects over the next several years,” the Okanagan chapter of the UDI, which represents the development industry, said in the letter. “In recent weeks, several developers have been informed that power cannot be assured for projects until 2027 to 2029.”
FortisBC serves as the regional electricity provider for the Southern Interior region of British Columbia. In Fall 2024, FortisBC said that it plans to spend $157 million towards electrical infrastructure in the region over the next three years, but that is still pending approval from the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC), the Province’s regulatory agency for utilities, and UDI Okanagan said the investment was “neither sufficient nor timely to accommodate Kelowna’s rapid population growth.”
“Without a reliable electricity supply, development in the region is at risk of stalling, with some projects potentially being abandoned altogether,” they said. “This has the potential to disrupt the City of Kelowna’s ability to meet its provincial housing targets.”
That which cannot go on forever will stop.
Global- Irving Paper shuts down 50% of N.B. operations due to electricity rates
The company said Irving Paper is a world-class manufacturer of graphic paper for use in magazines, catalogues, newspapers and advertising flyers. Over 95 per cent of Irving Paper’s annual manufacturing output, around 400,000 tonnes of paper, is exported to 65 countries.
SaskPower is now getting in the greenwashing game.
Don’t miss this week’s episode of the Pipeline Online Podcast – Show me the Money! – 1 p.m. CST Monday live on the Pipeline Online Facebook page, LinkedIn and X. Hint: X works best.
Weekend Watch: Jordan Peterson’s ARC conference talks a lot about energy, anthropogenic climate change and woke.
Where are we going to put all the snow?
Telegraph- Hydrogen planes were meant to deliver net zero. Those plans are being torn up
Hydrogen planes “have almost vanished from the road map”, says Carlos López de la Osa, of Transport & Environment (T&E), which promotes sustainable flying. As a result, the only realistic fuel alternative to fossil fuels for full-size passenger jets appears to have been swept off the board.
Leftists like to rant about the alleged “negative externalities” of the free market, but never seem to be concerned when central planning results in the same thing.
EV batteries are larger and heavier than those in regular cars and are made up of several hundred individual lithium-ion cells, all of which need dismantling. They contain hazardous materials, and have an inconvenient tendency to explode if disassembled incorrectly.
“Currently, globally, it’s very hard to get detailed figures for what percentage of lithium-ion batteries are recycled, but the value everyone quotes is about 5%,” says Dr Anderson. “In some parts of the world it’s considerably less.”
Andrew Coyne- As an economist you know that your proposed alternatives are *orders of magnitude* more expensive than carbon pricing. At a time when we can least afford it, when we need to be wringing every ounce of efficiency out of our economy, we are going to kneecap what meagre growth we have. A bipartisan achievement!
More leverage for Trump’s trade war. Good job everyone.
Western Standard- Guilbeault pulls pin on $11-billion Kitimat refinery project
First proposed in 2016, Pacific Future Energy had envisioned the 150,000 barrel per day refinery, near Kitimat, as a way to export refined petroleum products like gasoline, diesel and jet fuel to Asia.
Armstrong Economics- EPA Threw Away BILLIONS Ahead of Trump Presidency
The Biden Administration effectively permitted this agency to “throw gold bars” off the edge of the Titanic and needlessly spend public funds. All of these investigations lead to the same conclusion. The government provides nonprofits with a large sum and those agencies then funnel the money to smaller agencies, whether its related to climate change or funding terrorism. This is precisely why Trump attempted to freeze all federal funds upon taking office.
In Kelowna today, Mark Carney promises to abuse the emergency powers of the federal government to build green energy projects and "take on the Americans."
Enjoy your tariff lockdowns, everyone. pic.twitter.com/GxaRKUsxbP
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) February 12, 2025
@JustBins – A Sask man was removed from Mark Carney’s event in Regina. Moments after he entered, a lawyer approached and questioned him about a Facebook post where he criticized Carney. The lawyer then revoked his Liberal party membership and had police remove him for trespassing.
Bloomberg (Feb 3): Nordic countries increasingly feel they are paying the cost of a failed German energy policy — one they weren’t consulted on, though it affects them.
Energiewende is the German version of the energy transition championed by former Chancellor Angela Merkel: shutting down nuclear power stations and embracing wind and solar electricity. All were supported by successive right- and left-wing governments with generous subsidies. Dunkelflaute is a period of windless and cloudy weather that reduces renewable production.
The combination of both words means the German electricity grid is today more weather dependent than ever. Without sufficient baseload generation running 24/7 and dispatchable plants, which can be activated on demand, Berlin relies on imports from neighboring countries to fill the gap during long stretches of winter when it’s dark and windless.
In Norway, energiewende and dunkelflaute have collided, pushing up local electricity prices as the country exports a growing amount of power via cross-border cables. Average wholesale power prices in 2023-2024 were more than 50% higher in southern Norway than in the 2010-2020 period. The problem reached its zenith last week when Oslo debated whether to adopt new EU rules, known as the fourth clean-energy package, key to advancing the rollout of renewables.
On Thursday, the euro-skeptic Center Party denied its support to the measures and abandoned the coalition government that’s ruled the country for three-and-a-half years, setting off the leadership spiral. The center-left Labour Party will now go it alone, in the party’s first minority government in 25 years, ahead of elections set for Sept. 8. […]
The collapse of the Norwegian government came months after a spat between Sweden and Germany after Stockholm rejected Berlin’s request to build another cross-border connection. In 2023, Norway rejected a British request for a submarine cable to Scotland. Crucially, whoever wins the next Norwegian election, they are likely to scrap a 50-year-old pair of cables connecting Norway with Denmark. If that happens, it would indicate that other cross-border interconnectors may be in danger when they reach their end of life, and that new projects to replace them — and also expand capacity beyond the current design — may never be built.
Bloomberg- Swiss Voters Reject Emission Curbs Over Economic Concerns
The so-called Environmental Responsibility Initiative, launched by the youth wing of Switzerland’s Green Party, was supported by just 26% of the electorate, according to an early government count on Sunday.
Suncor Energy earns $818 million in fourth quarter, upstream production rises