Commentary Canada’s economy may manage to escape going into a recession despite economists predicting it would over the last few months. Higher-than-expected growth in the national GDP in the first quarter of 2023 has dampened speculation of an economic contraction. This has led to speculation the Bank of Canada will be raising interest rates again…

The Biden administration has implemented multiple policies that have harmed America’s domestic energy production and weakened the country’s standing internationally leading to gas shortages and the highest-ever prices in the nation’s history. “President Biden and the Democrats in Congress have a plan for American energy: make it harder to produce and more expensive to purchase….

Farmers and activists have slammed a decision allowing waste salt from coal seam gas extraction to be buried at lined landfill sites in Queensland, saying it risks contaminating the Murray-Darling river system. The state’s action plan to manage highly salty waste brine was released last week, 26 years after the first CSG project began in…

When President Joe Biden openly advocates for phasing-out oil and gas as primary energy generators in the United States within a decade, what appears as a news scroll blip for most Americans is a clap of thunder across the rolling West Texas sage of the Permian Basin. “The messages, virtue signaling, and rhetoric that have…

Commentary What is the number one most essential resource in the world today? Obviously, it is energy. Oil and gas and (yes, it’s making a return) coal during this fretful time have a value enhanced beyond their normal use. And considering that normal use is nothing less than powering the way of life of—literally—all of…

Commentary When Justin Trudeau said there was no business case for shipping Canadian natural gas to Europe, the obvious retort is that of the umpire who, when a free-swinging slugger protested a call saying “that was never a strike,” sneered “How would you know?” Nothing in Trudeau’s record, before or after entering politics, suggests the…

Domestic producers in the United States welcomed President Joe Biden’s March 8 order banning Russian oil and gas imports but say his muddled energy policies will prolong consumers’ pain at the pump and inhibit efforts to restore American energy independence. “This crisis should be a wake-up call that we need [a] strategic American energy policy…

Texas’ oil and natural gas industry supported more than 2.5 million total jobs statewide in 2019, a new analysis found, contributing the most to the state’s GDP and total income of any industry. Texas’ oil and gas industry contributed $411.6 billion to the state’s gross domestic product, including $251.2 billion to the state’s total labor…

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney defends a government-funded energy campaign against a Netflix movie, labelling it as anti-oil propaganda. The Belgian-French adventure animation, “Bigfoot Family,” takes place in Alaska, where a family of mythical Bigfoot creatures take on an antagonist oil mogul who prepares to detonate a pristine valley to excavate its oil resource. The movie…

WASHINGTON—An Epoch Times survey of more than 28,000 readers has found that 96 percent disagree with putting a stop to the Keystone Pipeline construction. President Joe Biden kiboshed the project via executive order on Jan. 21. “The pipeline would reduce environmental risks of alternative means of transport. Stopping it unilaterally was an affront to Canada….