A royal screw-up on royalties
Don’t conflate forecast errors with new oil and gas royalty scheme.
Finally, a shovel in the ground
B.C.’s single most consequential piece of enabling infrastructure just moved from press release to construction site. Here’s what the North Coast Transmission Line actually unlocks—and the one test that’s left.
How Mark Carney can rescue the UAE’s $70 billion investment commitment into Canada
Abu Dhabi can move capital at an enormous scale. The question is whether Canada can offer projects that are permitted, powered and ready to build.
What B.C.’s oil and gas build-out actually delivered
A new study by economist Philip Cross finds that a decade of pipelines, LNG and upstream investment nearly doubled B.C.’s real oil and gas output, opened new export markets and created the province’s highest-paid jobs.
Interactive quiz: solve the $40-billion question
Invest in a coastal pipeline, or heat pumps and electric buses? Tweak six core assumptions to uncover the true cost of your beliefs.
The internet is made of water, sand, rocks and human creativity
B.C.’s rivers and minerals are the raw material of the AI economy. The question is what the province gets in return for each megawatt.
Five nations, one billion dollars, and the tank at the heart of Canada’s LNG future
A landmark equity option would provide five North Coast First Nations majority ownership of the largest LNG storage tank in Canada, starting from the construction phase.
Roberts Bank: Microcosm and litmus test for a diversified terminal enabling Canada’s energy exports
The Canada-BC and Canada-Alberta agreements opened the door to a new west coast oil pipeline, and its least-expected component may be the most telling: a terminal at Roberts Bank.
The accidental corridor
By closing the north, Ottawa and Victoria may have opened the only pipeline route that can actually get built