Saturday, February 1, 2025 may go down as the date the great Trade War began. On that date, less than two weeks following his second inauguration, President Donald J. Trump announced 25% tariffs on both Mexico and Canada...more
Canada's troubled Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, faced growing calls to resign last week after his Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Director, Chrystia Freeland, resigned over disagreements about government spending....more
Americans tend to think of Canadians as just like ourselves, only nicer, more polite, and more tolerant. We look at our own divisions and wish we could be as pleasant and accommodating as we believe the Canadians to be....more
On Tuesday, February 15, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act of 1988 to try to end the continuing demonstrations by truckers in that country. The demonstrators called themselves a “freedom...more
Last weekend, Ottawa police cleared the streets of the Canadian capital of the trucks that had parked themselves downtown for the better part of a week. There were dramatic confrontations, but thankfully little...more
In the disruption that followed shutting down the Colonial Pipeline due to a “ransomware” attack, the energy policy of the fledgling Biden Administration, and of its key supporters, devolved into incoherence and outright...more
President Biden’s first move on energy internationally likely will be one of his most unfortunate actions - rejoining the Paris Climate Accords. Unfortunately, he will have no choice, since he has consistently pledged to do...more
1/15/2021
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Canada ,
China ,
Climate Change ,
Energy Sector ,
Fossil Fuel ,
Fracking ,
Green Deal ,
International Relations ,
National Emissions Standards ,
Natural Gas ,
Oil & Gas ,
OPEC ,
Paris Agreement ,
Pipelines ,
Popular ,
Russia ,
Turkey ,
Venezuela
...The absurdity of the current United States pipeline permitting process was on full display last week in two nearby states in the Upper Midwest.
On Thursday, Enbridge, the Canadian pipeline company, received notice from...more
One breakout political star of the Coronavirus crisis has been New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo. His daily briefings have been direct and succinct.
Cuomo often says that numbers will drive the policy. Unfortunately, in...more
The latest battlefield in the American pipeline wars is one of the most celebrated, venerable and scenic places in the United States - the Appalachian Trail. Stretching about 2,200 miles from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian...more
3/5/2020
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Energy Projects ,
Environmental Policies ,
Federal Land ,
Forest Service ,
Land Developers ,
National Park Service ,
National Parks ,
Oil & Gas ,
Pipelines ,
Tribal Lands
People in the United States who wonder how far pipeline protests can go, and how disruptive they can be, need only look north to Canada. As this article is written, much of the national Canadian rail system has been shut down...more
2/20/2020
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Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
Liquid Natural Gas ,
Native American Issues ,
Natural Gas ,
Oil & Gas ,
Pipelines ,
Protests ,
Railways ,
Tribal Lands
By a vote of 17-11, the Oregon State Senate last week just passed a five-year moratorium on fracking in that State. The Senate bill cut in half a 10-year moratorium passed in March by the Oregon House of Representatives, but...more
Residents of the Siberian town of Pervouralsk have been horrified by a sight they never expected – green colored snow. Vladimir Putin’s Russia, in the same way as the Communist Soviet Union, industrializes with little regard...more
3/11/2019
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Eminent Domain ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Policies ,
Hydropower ,
Marcellus Shale ,
Natural Gas ,
Offshore Wind ,
Oil & Gas ,
Private Property ,
Russia