Category: Ethical Energy

How much? A zillion? Surely more than that!

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NDP claim coal refurbishments will cost even more, while SaskPower minister tours Boundary Dam and Estevan mine

On a day when the Minister Responsible for SaskPower was touring the work done on the coal-fired Boundary Dam Power Station Unit 4 and the nearby Estevan coal mine, the Saskatchewan NDP was quoting another number, their highest yet, as an estimated cost of the coal refurbishments. But what are those numbers based on?
Pipeline Online digs into that analysis, and finds the scenarios each to have significant flaws.

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Jim Warren: Why the biggest oil supply crisis in history hasn’t produced the highest crude prices in recent history

I Want A New Country

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Not a bug, but a feature: Canada’s carbon pricing wipes out Alberta oilsands’ edge

Canada’s industrial carbon tax pushes the cost of producing a marginal barrel of oilsands crude to $75 USD (at $95/tonne carbon tax)—well above what new projects in Texas or New Mexico face—stripping away the tax advantage Alberta needs to attract energy investment, according to a new Fraser Institute study by Jack Mintz, president’s fellow at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy.

The findings land as Ottawa and Alberta advance a one-million-barrel-per-day West Coast oil pipeline proposal under their November 2025 memorandum of understanding (MOU) and May 2026 implementation agreement. So far, Pembina Pipeline Corp. is the only private partner to sign on, taking a 10 percent stake during construction, and no oil producers have yet committed to shipping on the line.

Mintz said the research began long before the current political moment.

“This work was started about three, four years ago—it was more of an academic interest,” he said in a phone interview with The Hub. “It struck me that no one had really looked at carbon taxation and how it affects competitiveness.”

Brotherhood is not comrades with NDP these days

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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers respond to NDP coal position: “A deliberate misrepresentation of costs”

It turns out if the NDP wants your job to disappear, they don’t get your support. Imagine that? As in, if they want your house to lose half or more of its value, you to lose your job, and would rather spend money on gas from Alberta or wind and solar, what would you think?

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Wait, isn’t this how it was done before?

Feds want pipeline projects reviewed by energy regulator instead of impact agency

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Pipeline company Enbridge unfazed by rival oil shipping projects

Coulda Had A Pipeline

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Your second juxtapose of the day.

I want a new country.

Canadian Competitiveness

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As I was sifting through the influencer pulp this morning on the UAE decision to leave OPEC (and decided to sit it out), I stumbled upon this chart from the just released OPEC Annual Statistical Bulletin.

Let’s zoom in.

Blue is crude price, red is tax, coral is industry profit margin.

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Y2Kyoto: Blunder Down Under

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Turns out, net zero was easier to reach than anyone dared dream: Australia has 403 billion barrels of shale oil — 17.5 billion of which is immediately recoverable. But it banned fracking. So now it’s begging for diesel from countries that don’t have a gallon to spare 🤡

Mais oui, it was finalement, euh, within zee reach, non? French energy giant TotalEnergies says it will no longer aim to reach net zero emission targets by 2050

More: I’m out of diesel. All the farmers are out of diesel.

Drill Baby, Drill

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Industry analyst Anas Alhajji;

More than 200,000 people are attending ADIPEC this year. The expo is the largest energy expo on earth. It would take a person two days to go through it. The large presence of Russian and Chinese companies is noticeable.

The most important takeaways are these:

∙ There is no energy transition, only energy addition
∙ Energy reinforcement, not replacement.
∙ Demand for oil will continue to grow
∙ OPEC: Investment of $18.2 billion is needed to meet oil demand by 2050.
∙ Innovation is more important than regulation
∙ AI is changing the energy industry

More from AOIPEC: U.S. Secretary Doug Burgum Defends Fossil Fuels, Challenges “Energy Transition” Narrative

Y2Kyoto: Walkaway

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The dumbest generation of CEO’s in history tried to appease the crocodiles:

In a rare display of corporate sanity, Suncor Energy has abruptly cut funding to a climate activist charity peddling “resilience” projects across Indigenous communities. The decision marks a welcome shift away from the company’s years-long flirtation with the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) mob.

Suncor had pledged $500,000 to The Resilience Institute, a climate group focused on adapting communities to so-called “climate risks.”

But instead of handing over the cash and patting itself on the back for more hollow virtue signalling, Suncor pulled the plug — quietly, firmly, and without apology.

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