Gordon Jaremko

After 17 years of planning, regulatory ordeals and frustrated rescue attempts, the dormant second incarnation of Canada’s arctic natural gas development has been formally declared dead.

A target date of 2021 has been set to complete a petrochemical plant for 22,000 b/d of propane from Alberta natural gas producers.

The British Columbia Supreme Court has made an example of a private Calgary company and a small natural gas pipeline project to teach industry and regulators a lesson that they must pay attention to native rights.

A target date of 2021 has been set to complete a new petrochemical plant for 22,000 b/d of propane from Alberta natural gas producers.

Even the old mainstay growth customer, Alberta thermal oilsands projects, will let down Canadian natural gas producers, says a fall crop of industry and government forecasts that lean prices will continue to prevail.

Natural gas has emerged as the winner in two power projects launched to comply with an Alberta government environmental policyrequiring replacement of coal-fired generating stations with cleaner alternatives.

After scrapping the most politically sensitive location option in British Columbia (BC), efforts continue to develop a Pacific coast liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal on Vancouver Island.

Canadians can make a strong start on tapping Alberta’s Duvernay Shale, even if natural gas and oil prices stay flat, according to an economic geology forecast by government earth scientists.

A new eastern path will open for Canadian imports of shale gas from the United States — potentially straight to the national capital, Ottawa — as a result of a pipeline direction switch approved by the National Energy Board (NEB).