Advocacy & Opinion
McMillan: Energy sector helping Canada weather COVID-19 storm
Thursday, April 9, 2020, 7:01 AM MDT
For the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) and our member companies, health and safety is a top priority. We…
Canadians need the oil and gas industry now more than ever
Wednesday, April 8, 2020, 7:06 AM MDT
Some media organizations have chosen this turbulent time to publish viewpoints of anti-oil industry organizations, opining that it’s a great…
Negative oil prices? They’re already here
Thursday, April 2, 2020, 6:20 AM MDT
Oil markets are in pain. Demand has plummeted, with about three billion people under lockdown just as the world faces…
Energy jobs could be greener after coronavirus
Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 6:25 AM MDT
Energy enables work. Here endeth the physics lesson, because this is about jobs. Oil and gas, like most other sectors,…
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…
Opinion: The ESG evolution: Clearing up misconceptions
Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 1:40 PM MDT
A few weeks ago, I was in a meeting where ESG was on the agenda. One of the male leaders…
Opinion: A tenth of active and abandoned oil and gas wells in northeastern B.C. are leaking
Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 10:33 AM MST
Northeastern British Columbia has been a major centre of conventional oil and gas production since the 1960s. More recently, the…
Opinion: Indigenous civil rights blockades should be met with a new diplomacy, not violence
Sunday, March 1, 2020, 6:13 PM MST
Canada is at a critical crossroads. The Wet'suwet'en conflict brings us to a deciding moment in Canada, one that will…
Opinion: It's time to go to each of the 20 First Nations that support Coastal GasLink to solicit their help in making sure the pipeline gets built
Thursday, February 27, 2020, 1:40 PM MST
In 2015, we gathered in the meeting house of the remote Tl’azt’en First Nation at Tache, 215 km northwest of…
Bridges, buildings, railways, streets focus of anti pipeline protests
Sunday, February 9, 2020, 2:59 PM MST
Efforts by hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en Nation to halt a pipeline project have prompted arrests and spurred a national…
Opinion: Alberta needs the 'war room' to challenge energy ignorance
Monday, January 13, 2020, 7:23 AM MST
The Canadian Energy Centre – also called the “war room” – is online, publishing featured stories, reports, briefs, analysis, perspective…
Putting an end to Quebec’s energy vulnerability
Friday, January 3, 2020, 7:12 AM MST
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has suggested to Quebec that pipelines would prevent events like the recent propane shortage caused by…
