Encana Corp., one of Canada’s oldest and largest energy companies, is moving its corporate headquarters from Calgary to the United States to bolster its access to deep-pocketed investors. The company, which is also changing its name to Ovintiv Inc., says having a U.S. address will expose it to increasingly larger pools of investment in U.S. […]
The loss of Ralph Goodale in Ottawa is a big one. That is the sentiment of Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce CEO Steve McLellan. “It will hurt the province dramatically.” McLellan said. “He delivered for Saskatchewan unlike anyone else in my forty years of political watching. He was our warrior if you will in Ottawa. Not […]
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is pledging to help oilsands workers find new jobs outside the sector if his party forms government and implements its plan to combat climate change. His party’s climate change plan calls for cutting subsidies to oil and gas companies as a way to fuel the transition towards renewable energy sources — […]
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh pledged Friday to create a $40-million plan to help safeguard Canada’s coastlines and accused Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau of taking actions that have threatened the environment along them. Speaking to reporters Friday on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, Singh said a New Democrat government would create a coastal fund to protect salmon, […]
Crescent Point Energy Corp has announced it would exit Uinta Basin in Utah and sell parts of its assets in southeast Saskatchewan for about $912 million as it looks to cut debt under a new management. The Uinta Basin asset, expected to produce about 20,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) in 2020, was […]
An energy company with a refinery in Moose Jaw has been awarded the first Oil and Gas Processing Investment Incentive by the provincial government. Gibson Energy recently completed an expansion that sees the facility now produce 22 thousand barrels a day, all the while keeping their carbon emissions the same as before the renovation. Senior […]
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he will fight the passage of two federal environment bills on multiple fronts — starting in court. Kenney says he is filing constitutional challenges to Bill C-48 and Bill C-69 because he believes they unfairly target his oil and gas province. Kenney says Bill C-48, which bans tanker traffic on […]
The premier supports the Federal Government’s decision to approve the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion after the investment of billions of taxpayers dollars into the project. Scott Moe also says Ottawa must ensure this isn’t the last pipeline to get federal endorsement. The premier says the province remains deeply concerned the rules set out in Bill […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Conservative premiers are playing games with national unity by threatening the country’s future if they don’t get their way on an environmental-assessment bill. The six premiers, including Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe, said in a letter to Trudeau Monday that he must accept every one of the amendments the Senate has made […]
For the first time since Jason Kenney was elected as Alberta Premier, he was in Saskatchewan. Kenney and Premier Scott Moe attended the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show in Weyburn where they addressed showgoers in an event that showed the two are on the same page when it comes to the energy sector. The two […]
