Curiously, someone at Tides Canada also visited Krause’s blog this week, downloading an astonishing 170 documents, according to her records.

He even apologizes for Dangerous David, who has almost certainly wrecked the Liberals’ chances in the Calgary Centre bye-election..
The original Bobbety.

H/T to LC Bennett.
Last week – Take that, Alberta: Christy Clark says B.C. will be Canada’s number one economy

British Columbia Premier Christy Clark took aim at Alberta Tuesday in an election-style speech where she boasted her province doesn’t need oil to be the country’s top economic generator…Clark said her government’s year-old jobs plan, which focuses on increasing trade with China and Asia

This week – B.C. energy minister mystified after Ottawa nixes key takeover for province’s natural gas strategy

“A last-minute decision by the Harper government to reject a takeover of Canadian gas producer Progress Energy by Malaysian state-owned energy giant Petronas pulled the rug out from under B.C. Energy Minister Rich Coleman, who viewed the $5.9-billion deal as one of the catalysts for B.C.’s multi-billion-dollar liquefied natural gas strategy.”

We’re not running out of oil.

Yesterday:

Let Them Eat Cheese

Now:

Fracking banned by Quebec government
The new Parti Quebecois government hasn’t wasted any time hinting about a long-term ban on the shale gas industry.

A progressive in (in)action:

No Fracking, We’re French
Once again, Hollande chooses ideology over prosperity.

Jo Nova;

Groups like Greenpeace and The Australian Conservation Foundation argue that really, Governments are helping fossil fuel companies far more than green ones. But while governments rewrite national economies to help “green” companies, about half of the help for fossil fuels is simply that the government didn’t take as much off them as it could. The net flow of money is still from Big-Fossil-Energy towards Big-Government. It takes a special kind of grand entitlement to call that a subsidy.

“Not showing up to riot …”

I GUESS FOLKS ON THE RIGHT ARE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE A CUE FROM THE LEFTIES IN TEXAS, and launch ethics attacks against researchers who publish results they don’t like. It’s a lot easier than attacking the actual research, and it should be a target-rich environment. . . .

IBD;

Today the Obama administration brags about its “all of the above” energy policy, but two years ago it temporarily banned oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill, a move that cut oil output and cost thousands of jobs.
At the time, the Interior Department report called its recommendations “peer-reviewed by seven experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering.” But that was not true. None of the seven advised a drilling ban then.
[..]
Interior’s estimate was that well closures temporarily cost 8,000-12,000 jobs and $1.2 billion in economic activity. Mason put job losses at 13,000-19,000, lost wages at $800 million and lost tax revenue at $200 million.
When Interior said the engineers backed the ban, the engineers were shocked. The idea of a moratorium never came up in their sessions and was not recommended, five of the seven told IBD. There was no need to stop other wells, they said.

Source: Financial Post

Vivian Krause;

Of the 30 U.S. grants that Suzuki’s foundation received for a total of US$9-million, 29 are earmarked for British Columbia. Forget the rest of Canada, the only place that U.S. foundations have heavily funded Suzuki’s work is on the strategic, north coast of B.C., right smack where oil tankers export bound for Asia would need to travel.
[…]
No tankers means no oil exports to Asia and that the U.S. gets to keep its virtual monopoly on Canadian oil.

Washington Examiner;

Barack Obama has set himself up for a high-profile defeat on one of the most important issues of the campaign.
The president has put his feet in cement in opposition to the Keystone oil pipeline. But on Capitol Hill, more and more Democrats are joining Republicans to force approval of the pipeline, whether Obama wants it or not.
The latest action happened Wednesday, when the House passed a measure to move the pipeline forward. Before the vote, Obama issued a veto threat. The House approved the pipeline anyway — by a veto-proof majority, 293 to 127. Sixty-nine Democrats abandoned the president to vote with Republicans. That’s a lot of defections.

Part of me cheers, while part of me hopes they don’t save his sorry ass from himself.

“What are they thinking?”

“Got that? A speculative ‘green’ energy project that in retrospect, once the rest of us saw the details, was obviously going to be a business disaster, and ended up costing the taxpayers over half a billion dollars, was approved after a ‘one-day review.’ Yet the president demanded that Keystone, a project with certain and vast energy output, be delayed for many more months so that it could be ‘adequately reviewed,’ despite the fact that it had already had years of review. And as a result our energy prices will now rise in the future, with no way of returning to the status quo. Just as the president told us he wanted them to when he ran four years ago.”

They’re thinking it’s all going according to plan, that’s what they’re thinking.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper talked about a variety of issues including a wide range of topics including U.S.-Canada relations, energy supplies and exports, immigration, and trade expansion. The Keystone XL pipeline was the focus of several questions posed to the Canadian leader.
Find out how Canada is being viewed on the world stage. Thing you will never hear from the CBC.
h/t Glenn in the comments

And that’s why I’m reinforcing the palisades. (h/t Jack)

I am so damned proud of Stephen Harper right now. (I apologize if this has already been posted. I’ve been in the air a lot of the day.)

A federal judge in Alaska has granted a preliminary injunction against Greenpeace USA which will remain in place until October 31st 2012, the end of Shell Oil’s ‘drilling window’ in Alaska. The injunction follows a temporary restraining order which expired on March 28th.

h/t Adrian

Atlantic Seismic Exploration Announcement an Empty Gesture

“The administration’s announcement does not put the U.S. on track to produce more of its own energy, and does not make up for three years of failed energy policy,” said Milito. “It continues the pattern of delaying U.S. oil and gas development and supplies until well into the future.”
Milito called the announcement political rhetoric and an attempt to make the Obama administration look like it is doing something on gas prices, “but in reality it is little more than an empty gesture.”
“Without an Atlantic coast lease sale in their five-year plan, the administration’s wishful thinking on seismic research has no ultimate purpose,” Milito commented. “The White house has banned lease sales in the Atlantic for at least the next five years, discouraging the investment and job creation, and ultimately production, which would make seismic exploration valuable.”

h/t Adrian

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

…it will be Thursday, when Obama is scheduled to appear in Cushing, Okla., known as the pipeline capital of the world, to take credit for the southern half of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project announced weeks ago by TransCanada, the Keystone builder.
It’s the section that doesn’t need presidential or State Department approval since it does not cross an international boundary.