Stewart Muir
Opinion: Notes from Flight 163, the oilsands shuttle from Toronto to Edmonton
Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 2:07 PM MDT
On a recent Monday morning, I found myself on Air Canada Flight 163 from Toronto Pearson to Edmonton. As the…
Ottawa needs to repair Western relations to benefit from tomorrow's oilsands success
Thursday, October 31, 2019, 7:17 AM MDT
Justin Trudeau’s minority government is apparently agonizing over who is the least-worst person to act as a symbolic olive-branch bearer…
What Canada’s 2019 election means for energy and unity
Friday, October 25, 2019, 7:15 AM MDT
Canada is increasingly a country of energy pessimists and energy optimists, where the nation’s economic foundation of oil and gas…
$2MM gift to Tzeporah Berman proves again that ‘dark money’ is mostly on the anti-development side
Friday, September 6, 2019, 12:01 PM MDT
Eyebrows were raised this week when an American group gave US$2 million plus unspecified “expert resources” to Tzeporah Berman, the…
Gasoline inquiry challenges Lotusland’s cultural aversion to fossil-fuel truth
Thursday, September 5, 2019, 7:23 AM MDT
British Columbia’s distinctive left-coast culture was a gold mine of material for satirist Allan Fotheringham. In his heyday, the columnist…
Oil and gas experts have an important role in setting out a realistic energy future
Friday, August 23, 2019, 1:20 PM MDT
Intolerance for the development and use of hydrocarbons is one of the defining factors of the current time. Much of…
All of Canada suffers when we don’t defend our best paying jobs in pipelines, energy and mining
Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 7:23 AM MDT
Over the past several years, a word with Latin roots has taken on a contemporary new meaning that is rich…
B.C. tanker ban already benefiting Canada’s competitors
Thursday, August 15, 2019, 1:53 PM MDT
Stewart Muir writes about energy and natural resources. He is based in British Columbia.A new Canadian law that will make…
Canada’s dependence on imported fossil fuels reaches a whole new level
Wednesday, August 14, 2019, 7:31 AM MDT
Stewart Muir is executive director of the Resource Works Society, based in Vancouver. It’s already well known that eastern Canada…
