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Author: Stewart Muir

1940s gas display at the Pacific National Exhibition | City of Vancouver Archives
Oil & Gas
  • Oil & Gas
5 MIN READ

Natural gas isn’t greenwashing – it’s historical accuracy under attack

B.C. Utilities Commission signals shift to “fossil gas,” inverting historical reality
Premier David Eby heads back to his office in the west wing following a press conference following the throne speech while the province declares today as a day of mourning at the legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Oil & Gas
  • Oil & Gas
20 MIN READ

Alberta is building the machine. The question is whether BC shows up to run it.

The Smith-Carney pipeline MOU, the carbon price fight, the BRIK gambit, and what it all means for British Columbia’s resource economy.
International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol and Jon McKenzie, President and CEO of Cenovus Energy
Energy
  • Energy
9 MIN READ

The IEA told Canada to stop. Now it says start. Cenovus says it may be too late.

As Fatih Birol reverses a decade of IEA orthodoxy, Cenovus chief Jon McKenzie delivers the sharpest CEO rebuke of Canadian energy policy
MarineTraffic offers a real-time window into global shipping.
Analysis
  • Analysis
12 MIN READ

I was glued to MarineTraffic before Stephen Colbert made it cool

It started at twenty bucks a month. It ended at three hundred, plus a Senate committee appearance and a wall of debunked
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks from a lectern beside a Canadian National Railways locomotive at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, during an announcement on the Canada Strong Fund, Canada's first sovereign wealth fund in Ottawa on Monday, April 27, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Economy
  • Economy
7 MIN READ

The sovereign wealth fund Canada finally got – and the one it still needs

Prime Minister Carney’s Canada Strong Fund is a long overdue step but its success hinges on Indigenous economic participation and ironclad discipline
Ellis Ross at IPSS 2025. Resource Works Photo
Reconciliation
  • Reconciliation
12 MIN READ

The law that forgot to ask permission

DRIPA arrived with unanimous support and genuine hope. What it lacked was the relational architecture to make it real — and the
Handshake at the threshold. Premier David Eby congratulates Niki Sharma on her appointment as British Columbia's Attorney General at Government House in Victoria, December 7, 2022. Within two years she would also become Deputy Premier — the province's chief law officer and second-ranking politician, whose most recent pre-politics role had been running oil and gas campaigns for a Pacific coast anti-pipeline organisation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Energy
  • Energy
48 MIN READ

Norway’s assets, California’s politics

British Columbia has the energy endowment to be a global success story. Instead it has spent seven years following the cautionary playbook
Oil & Gas
  • Oil & Gas
2 MIN READ

One name, two vital meanings: Why BCF belongs at the centre of BC’s policy conversation

Natural gas isn’t a footnote in British Columbia’s future — it’s foundational to it
Margareta Dovgal
Energy
  • Energy
7 MIN READ

You can’t build an energy superpower with tools designed to keep energy in the ground

Resource Works' Margareta Dovgal returns to Parliament Hill with a warning: the government's energy superpower ambition is being strangled by the very