Energy Pacific Northern Gas, the main supplier of natural gas to much of northern British Columbia, has agreed to be taken over by the much bigger Calgary-based AltaGas Ltd. in a deal worth $230 million or $36.75 a share. The … Continue reading
Environment Arts The Great Bear Wild photo exhibit arrives in Kitimat Wednesday. The exhibit will open in a Kitimat store front, in the City Centre mall, for a ten day run, on Wednesday Nov. 2, 2011, continuing to Nov. 12. … Continue reading
Energy Environment Politics Canada’s minister of natural resources, Joe Oliver, has embarked on a media blitz, quietly pushing the idea that Canada will go ahead and build the Northern Gateway pipeline to send bitumen sands to Asia if the United … Continue reading
Energy Eduard Gismatullin, a London-based reporter for Bloomberg News reports in Shell, PetroChina May Ship Canadian LNG to Gain From Asia Prices that: Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, together with PetroChina Co. and Japanese and South Korean … Continue reading
Energy Link Nathan Vanderklippe writes in The Globe and Mail Kinder Morgan aims to expand Trans Mountain pipeline A second project has been launched to carry major new volumes of oil-sands crude to Pacific waters, amid mounting industry interest in … Continue reading
Energy Economy Gordon Hamilton in the Vancouver Sun writes Business and labour leaders show their support for northern pipeline initiatives Sixteen business and labour leaders have signed an open letter to British Columbians urging their support for natural gas and … Continue reading
Energy Politics Marvin Shaffer, an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University and a public policy consultant, writes an op ed commentary in the Vancouver Sun Cheap power comes at a price A striking feature of the government’s jobs strategy is … Continue reading
Energy Environment Politics Pipeline politics trump sisterhood of the premiers The Northern Gateway pipeline could be the most glittering jewel of all in Premier Christy Clark’s highly-hyped jobs plan for British Columbia. The proposed, $5.5-billion project to carry Alberta crude … Continue reading
Energy The Seattle Times reports Plan would convert ferries to liquefied natural gas A proposal to convert six Washington state ferries to liquefied natural gas could save nearly $10 million a year, consultants have told top Washington legislators. The conversions of … Continue reading
Biofuel Environment A study of west coast forests in California, Oregon and Washington concludes that biofuel from forests could increase carbon dioxide emissions by at least 14 per cent. Oregon State University calls the study “the largest and most comprehensive … Continue reading
