For political reasons, the U.S. president has put the kibosh on TransCanada’s plan to extend the Keystone pipeline from Cushing Oklahoma to Houston. That project would have immediately created 6,500 high-paid, high-skilled construction jobs, along with thousands more spinofff jobs. The employment situation in the U.S. has been persistently bad through Obama’s presidency, and...
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Electric campaign in Ontario: minority legislature arrives at the crossroads
Subway and streetcar riders in Toronto should get familiar with the electricity war in the Ontario legislature. Actually, everybody in the Greater Toronto Area should get familiar with it. The GTA runs on electricity. The war is over electricity prices. Should they be high or low? Some people think they should be high. Such...
Fake Greens, Big Oil, and suffering Ontario: will the hicks mobilize?
One of the most exciting scenes in literature occurs when Willie Stark, in All the King’s Men, rebounds from the psychological trauma of realizing he’s been duped, by the “fellows in the striped pants” from the city, into running for governor. The striped pants’ plan was to use Willie, a small-time country lawyer, to split...
New Green Gasoline: it costs twice as much but it’s clean and green and makes your car run… worse
Imagine you need to fill up your car with gas, and you roll up to a pump in Ottawa, Ontario. Pump prices today are around $1.20 per litre (which works out to about $4.54 per US gallon). One of the pumps seems different than the others. Over top of it is a big attractive...
Youth and experience: why I’m confident in North America’s energy future
As the manager of a portfolio of C1 chemistry R&D projects, I have the pleasure and privilege of dealing with a lot of bright young chemical engineering students. These projects are collaborations between industry, government, and academia. My position at the nexus of these collaborations gives me a very interesting view of public-private science....
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