It is here, the dreaded by some, 2012. Hopefully, the doom predictions are going to be wrong and it will be just another year. Making predictions can turn out to be disastrously wrong for the journalists that attempt them. However, from an oil and gas perspective Ian McInnes gives it a go on some of the issues.
Although the demand for natural gas is high in many places in the world and Canada has plenty of it, the future for Canadian gas producers does not appear to be particularly bright. Ian McInnes investigates.
Energy companies sometimes get caught in the spotlight of the market and are caught up in a game of investor snakes and ladders where either designation may be unwelcome. Ian McInnes offers examples.
TransCanada buys nine solar projects from Canadian Solar Solutions and enters the solar energy market.
Canada withdraws from Kyoto Protocol saying its is unworkable. The country would be subject to penalties of around US$13.6bn for not cutting emissions sufficiently by 2012.
The need for solutions to challenges encountered by the oil and gas industry is driving the next round of inventions.
New findings show that Canada will be a major energy exporter as the country taps into its unconventional oil resources. This new reality will not diminish demand for oil in the future but rather enable the world to develop pragmatic and sustainable alternatives, say some.
US president Barack Obama delays final decision on Transcanada’s Keystone XL project.
The combination of reduced industrial demand and rapid power capacity expansion is expected to leave the Canadian province with a power glut over the next decade.
REpower Systems SE was awarded the contract for the supply of 75 wind turbines in Québec by EDF Energies Nouvelles Canada.
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