If I was running the industry that serves as perennial whipping boy for Liberals, I’d screw over their manufactured “price drop at the pumps” campaign stunt, too.
The average retail price of gasoline in Canada increased ¢14 in the last month, which is not coincidentally the amount of carbon tax that is being removed today. pic.twitter.com/JvNFPMapYD
— Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker (@Martyupnorth_2) April 1, 2025
Poilievre’s key energy policy: a National Energy Corridor for pipe, power and rail. Here’s his speech, verbatim.
The reality is, we largely have a such a corridor already from Moose Jaw to a third of the way through Ontario. It’s Quebec and New Brunswick that are the issue.
And just a couple hours after Poilievre spoke, we recorded this with Andrew Scheer:
Pipeline Online Podcast, Ep. 6: Andrew Scheer on a National Energy Corridor and a whole lot more, including tariffs, Clean Electricity Regulations and coal-fired power.
How does the saying go? Gradually, then suddenly?
In case you missed it, posted last night
Moe declares “Saskatchewan is now a carbon tax free province”
BC is scrapping its consumer carbon tax
B.C. to bring in legislation to end its carbon tax on consumers starting April 1
BREAKING: Hardly able to contain his glee, Moe declares ‘Saskatchewan is now a carbon tax free province‘
This will have a huge impact on coal-fired power generation, making it much more competitive.
Roger Pielke Jr – Global Energy Demand Set to Accelerate
Five takeaways from IEA’s Global Energy Review 2025
Congrats @GovDunleavy on the LOI with CPC Corporation Taiwan supporting the strategic Alaska LNG pipeline and purchases of Alaska LNG! Looking forward to similar progress with Japan, South Korea, Thailand and other key partners!
Selling U.S. energy to our friends and allies makes the world a safer, more secure place and creates great opportunities for all to prosper!
Until two months ago this man co-chaired a global banking alliance that he assembled with the explicit goal of strangling Canada's energy sector. https://t.co/6FSEG1PV37
— Aaron Wudrick 🇨🇦 (@awudrick) March 21, 2025
Help a turnip out. How does cancelling capital gains tax hike, we were told would only impact the wealthiest 0.13%, incentivize those who aren’t? What am I missing?
A North Dakota jury has found Greenpeace liable for defamation, ordering it to pay more than $660m (£507m) in damages to an oil company for the environmental group’s role in one of the largest anti-fossil fuel protests in US history.
Texas-based Energy Transfer also accused Greenpeace of trespass, nuisance and civil conspiracy over the demonstrations nearly a decade ago against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The lawsuit, filed in state court, argued that Greenpeace was behind an “unlawful and violent scheme to cause financial harm to Energy Transfer”.
Greenpeace, which vowed to appeal, said last month it could be forced into bankruptcy because of the case, ending over 50 years of activism.
h/t Ken
All things energy in Saskatchewan Budget 2025
Pipeline Online combed through the budget so you don’t have to.
The biggest item for oil and gas is a new program meant to re-invigorate old, low producing wells by doing re-entries and drilling new legs on them of at least 500 metres. It will be interesting to see what the adoption of this program will be. I sure didn’t see it coming.
The story also does some digging into the goal of 600,000 or even 1 million barrels of oil production per day, and what the budget forecasts, which is essentially flat until 2029. There’s a big discrepancy there. Guess I better get back to working on my Reaching for a Million series and pump the ministry full of ideas before the next budget cycle.
On Friday I will publish the NDP response.
Today Pipeline Online is publishing in-depth stories from the NDP and Sask Party on last week’s steel tariffs from President Donald Trump. Both parties produced remarkably similar calls to action. Steel is critical for oil infrastructure and production, especially with regards to pipelines. Most of the major pipelines built in Western Canada saw their pipe come out of Regina, but it’s been some time since that mill has produced any pipeline pipe. And now, steel production itself is under threat of tariffs.
NDP on steel tariffs: Pipelines, rail and power transmission
Sask Party on steel tariffs: ports, pipes and rail
The photos you’ll see in the stories are from an exclusive tour I took of the mill in 2009. It was nearly impossible for me to get that access back then, so I haven’t asked for it since. And really, not much will have changed, other than the fact the pipe-making side of the mill has been dormant for a long time now. I’m hearing that workers on the pipe side are or have scattered to the winds. While I’m not certain of that, if true means institutional knowledge to make that pipe is being lost by the day. It’s a live question if we could bring it back into full production of a quality pipe product in a reasonable time?
Consider this – both the Alberta and Saskatchewan governments have made it policy to seek to double their respective oil production. To do so means we would need to effectively double the entire network of Enbridge, Keystone, Express, and Trans Mountain Pipelines. And that’s only for oil – never mind gas. There’s nowhere else in western Canada that can produce that pipe of that scale. We would need to run EVRAZ 24/7/365 at max capacity to accomplish that, and it would likely take decades. We can’t afford to lose it. Because if we do, we’d probably need to bring in pipe from China or possibly Mexico. Seriously.
Heads up: the guest for the Pipeline Online Podcast on Tuesday at 1 p.m. CST will be former Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage. You can watch on X, LinkedIn or Facebook.
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BIG NEWS: Westinghouse in SK, Part 3: Westinghouse signs MOUs with six Saskatchewan companies. When they say modular, they mean modular.
Despite Thursday’s partial tariff reprieve, Saskatchewan still cutting off US alcohol sales and procurement. This story is moving so fast, I had to update it twice before publishing. It might be out of date by Friday morning.
South Bow says tariffs could create challenges in its marketing segment (this is the spin-off company from TC Energy that operates Keystone Pipeline)
ROK Resources releases 2025 budget guidance, CEO discuss possible tariff impacts
Dr. Kaase Gbakon digs deep into the impacts of tariffs and the energy industry.
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
Jim Warren: CAA study confirms Ottawa published deceptive EV battery performance numbers.
Also:
I finally got around to publishing the back catalog of Pipeline Online Podcasts. Here’s Ep. 4 on getting paid. Slow pay/no pay has long been an issue in the oilpatch. Guest Chris Simeniuk talks about how to make sure your receivables are coming in.
Brian Zinchuk: How much might building SMRs cost Saskatchewan Hint: it’s not cheap.
This is a major piece talking about the costs that could be incurred building small modular reactors. Those costs could be unobtainable, which is why coal is back on the table in a big way.
The numbers come from the Tennessee Valley Authority, who already operate three nuclear plants and is the largest utility in the US. They plan on building the same model of reactor.
Also:
Moe proclaims pipeline projects “pre-approved,” Smith joins in.
I’m not sure how a provincial government can pre-approve something it has no regulatory power over.
Scott Moe- Effective Immediately: All pipeline permits going east, west, or south received in Saskatchewan will be considered pre-approved.
We encourage all provinces and the federal government to do the same.
Moe, Smith and Sask NDP respond to Trump’s call for Keystone XL to be built
Also:
Bronwyn Eyre: Why Newfoundland’s Case Against the Feds Matters
Trump calls once again for Keystone XL pipeline to be built
There is no project. There is no company behind it. TransCanada split into two companies. The team scattered to the winds. There is no pipe, and if there is any left, do not let it be put into the ground because it’ll be so rotten it’ll leak like a sieve. And there’s no one making pipe these days at Evraz, although such a project would surely be welcome there.
And why they hell would we lock even more into the American market at a forever discount? If we’re going to build pipe, build it to tidewater.
OR – is this they key to getting Trump to back off on tariffs?