Gordon Jaremko worked as a reporter and editor for Canadian daily newspapers, wire services and monthly magazines for 38 years in Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa, primarily covering politics, economics and business with emphasis on the Alberta petroleum industry. He has contributed to four books and has become an independent contractor engaged on two history projects. He has been contributing to Intelligence Press since 1986.
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Canada High Court Landmark Decisions Back NEB, Define Acceptable Consideration of Aboriginal Claims
Canadian industry kept a path to project approvals through the maze of aboriginal constitutional rights and power claims in landmark judicial verdicts Wednesday on energy development disputes in Ontario and Nunavut.
July 26, 2017
Pacific NorthWest LNG Cancels Export Terminal Plans in British Columbia
Pacific NorthWest LNG canceled plans Tuesday to build a C$11.4 billion ($9 billion) liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal on the Pacific coast of British Columbia, citing unfavorable overseas market conditions.
July 25, 2017
Hydro One’s $5.3B Takeover of Avista Extends Gas, Power Business from Canada into Northwest U.S.
Only two months after a privatization share sale, newly investor-controlled Ontario utility Hydro One Ltd. expanded Wednesday into the northwestern United States with a friendly takeover of Spokane, WA-based natural gas and power distributor Avista Corp.
July 20, 2017
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick Craving U.S. NatGas After Banning Unconventional Drilling
Canada’s Atlantic provinces are sliding into dependence on imports after banning horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to tap their natural gas deposits, said an industry- and government-supported agency.
July 18, 2017
TransCanada’s Mainline Toll Proposal Draws Criticism From Some Natural Gas Buyers
TransCanada Corp.’s plan to refill its cross-country natural gas Mainline with a new discount toll service for western suppliers is running into trouble from eastern buyers left holding old long-term, full-price delivery contracts.
July 14, 2017
New BC Reserves Estimate Lead By Montney, Horn River and Liard Formations
By the British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission’s count, only 1.4% of an astronomical 3,337 Tcf of gas in five BC geological structures have made the jump from estimated resources to tapped reserves so far, even though provincial production doubled to about 5 Bcf/d since 2000.
July 7, 2017
New Left-Leaning BC Government Will Keep Pedal to the Metal on Shale Development
A new left-leaning provincial government poses no red peril against accelerating development of British Columbia’s liquids-rich shale and “tight” natural gas formations, participants in the drilling said Wednesday.
July 7, 2017
Alberta, British Columbia Matching Rival Gas-Prone Areas in U.S., Producers Say
A decade of northern technology adaptation has evolved Alberta and British Columbia shale drilling into a match for rival gas-prone areas of the United States, producers told investment managers Thursday.
July 7, 2017
BC Tallies Underlying NatGas at 3,337 Tcf, Proved at 41 Tcf, Probable at 532 Tcf
By the British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission’s count, only 1.4% of an astronomical 3,337 Tcf of gas in five BC geological structures have made the jump from estimated resources to tapped reserves so far, even though provincial production doubled to about 5 Bcf/d since 2000.
July 6, 2017
A New Liberal British Columbia Government Doesn’t Go Far to the Left; Economic Interests Rule
A new left-leaning provincial government poses no red peril against accelerating development of British Columbia’s liquids-rich shale and “tight” natural gas formations, participants in the drilling said Wednesday.
July 6, 2017