TransCanada has no choice but to hit back at glib White House view on...
Claudia Cattaneo: President Obama’s glib views on the Keystone XL project are leaving TransCanada with no choice but to crank up the pressure — or die trying
View ArticleWith Keystone XL court win in Nebraska, Obama is now losing the process battle
Claudia Cattaneo: The Nebraska Supreme Court ruling adds to many Keystone XL process wins — and is another big setback for KXL opponents who seized any roadblock to keep the pipeline from going ahead
View ArticleU.S. Senate passes Keystone XL pipeline bill, defying White House
The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate passed a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, setting up a conflict with President Barack Obama who has promised a veto
View ArticleTerence Corcoran: TransCanada CEO Russ Girling's heroic battle with Obama
The man is standing up to the most powerful politician in the world fighting a battle to build a pipeline opposed by some of the most influential green political twisters on the planet
View ArticleObama to quietly kill off Keystone XL bill, White House confirms
A spokesman for U.S. President Barack Obama has reaffirmed that the White House plans to veto the bill, passed earlier this month by the Republican-controlled Congress
View ArticleObama unlikely to deliver Keystone XL decision during Canadian election
Don't expect U.S. President Barack Obama to deliver a Keystone XL verdict between mid-June and mid-October for fear of being seen as interfering in the upcoming election
View ArticleSouth Dakota legal wranglings adds to Keystone XL pipeline headaches
TransCanada was expecting South Dakota's re-certification of the pipeline would be a routine procedure. Instead the process has dragged on for more than eight months
View ArticleDebunking Obama's oft-repeated claims that Keystone XL would only ship...
One Montana landowner has already got a deal to be paid up to $1,800 an acre by TransCanada, plus bonuses, so he’s a little perplexed to hear the president say there’d be no U.S. oil involved
View ArticleEven Keystone XL foes are sick of waiting for Obama to decide pipeline's fate
'We don’t understand what the White House is waiting for,' said one activist, with others fretting the delay is taking away resources from other environmental fights
View ArticleJack M. Mintz: Time for NAFTA-plus
It is about time. A significant candidate looking to become the U.S. President after 2016 is talking about Canada. Jeb Bush’s comment on the need to better the Canadian-U.S. relationship is on the mark
View ArticleOilpatch ripe for deals as not all companies 'are going to make it': E&Y
There is considerable interest by private equity and foreign capital in particular, who remain attracted to the Canadian market
View ArticlePeter Foster: Obama on thin ice in pushing 'legacy' climate agenda in Alaska
Obama was trying to sell draconian climate action at a gathering where most of the participants’ main concerns were the possible opening of the Arctic that would boost emissions
View ArticleLawrence Solomon: Yesterday's Man
Trudeau’s coming rule, touted in the press as 'a brave new era,' should more accurately be seen as a reversion to the bygone
View ArticleSlamming Obama's Keystone decision on Twitter
'A national embarrassment': Obama is getting slammed on Twitter about Keystone
View ArticlePeter Foster: Trudeau's Keystone baptism by fire
Canada's new PM issued a parallel statement while the U.S. president was busy denying the KXL extension, but Trudeau was made to look like a mere courtier to Obama’s megalomanic pretensions to roll...
View ArticlePeter Foster: TransCanada’s Keystone legal action may lead to airing of state...
No cross-border pipeline has ever been turned down in the cause of saving the world
View ArticleObama seeks new $10-per-barrel oil tax in budget proposal to fund clean...
Obama will propose a US$10 per barrel tax on oil in his fiscal 2017 budget to finance self- driving cars, public transit, railroads and other transportation improvements, the White House said
View ArticleTerence Corcoran: Trudeau's charm offensive meets American anger
Terence Corcoran: When Canadians drink their state dinner toasts Thursday night, they should bear Obama’s anti-free-trade message in mind
View ArticleWhile Trudeau got attention, it’s Obama who ran the climate change victory lap
Claudia Cattaneo: The two countries announced climate change initiatives to show they are united in the fight to contain climate change. But the measures are marginal
View ArticleAt this year’s South by Southwest, big issues and futuristic ideas are taking...
'This year's festival has been more about connectivity, immersive experiences … rather than past years, which were more about new launches,' a SXSW veteran said
View ArticleLawrence Solomon: Americans are finally overthrowing political correctness...
With the Republicans’ ascension to power, the taboo edifice is about to collapse, particularly since Trump and his close advisers are outspoken opponents of political correctness
View ArticleKevin Libin: Beware of desperate politicians seeking 'environmental legacies'
As Canadians — and now Americans — are learning, there is little more dangerous than a political leader with nothing to lose
View ArticleJack Mintz: How Obama missed the biggest gift to American energy independence...
American energy independence will ultimately have a profound impact on world political developments. It’s too late to be Obama's legacy, but it could become Trump's
View ArticleWilliam Watson: The fatal temptation of Obama's presidency was exploiting the...
Americans’ yearning for post-partisanship gave the new president a partisan majority so impressive it created the partisan temptation
View ArticleTrump says TransCanada was bored after KXL denial — in fact the company had...
“Now he’s doing nothing, calling his wife, ‘Hello darling, I’m a little bored. You know that pipeline project that has killed us, that has killed our company?” Trump said, speaking as if he were Girling.
View ArticleWatergate 2.0: Why Donald Trump might already be a lame duck president
Diane Francis: Revelations that FBI is assessing whether the Trump team colluded with the Russians is casting a cloud over President Trump, the Republicans, and the U.S. economy
View ArticleThe Trudeau government finds a good idea for actually making pipeline...
The NEB Modernization Panel should be commended for recommending that the traditional NEB process be transformed into a two-step process
View ArticleLawrence Solomon: Why the Trump economy keeps on winning
With all the chaos in the United States, it’s easy to miss the fact that Trump, and especially the Trump economy, just keep on winning
View ArticleLawrence Solomon: The corruption of environmental regulation goes down the...
EPA board members have for years been pocketing jaw-dropping grants from the very agency they’ve been advising
View ArticleHydro-Quebec CEO calls for a national energy conversation (just don't call it...
Tough sell for many still irked by the National Energy Policy of the 1980s, but Sophie Brochu has the experience and smarts to get it started
View ArticleKeystone XL benefits for U.S. consumers, workers nominal: Obama
'There is very little impact - nominal impact - on U.S. gas prices, what the average American consumer cares about,' Obama told reporters
View ArticleWhat new sanctions mean for the Russian energy sector
"This bill could mark the first step on the path to replicating the Iranian sanctions architecture."
View ArticleKeystone XL pipeline suspense lingers as White House resists outright veto...
As the long-running saga over the Keystone XL pipeline enters a critical phase, U.S. President Barack Obama is allowing suspense to linger for at least a few more days
View ArticleWhite House: Obama would veto Keystone XL approval bill
The White House said Tuesday that U.S. President Barack Obama would veto a bill approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline that Congress plans to vote on in the coming weeks
View ArticlePeter Foster: Obama, Suzuki and cooked heating stats
Chef Obama and Sous Chef Suzuki take to stirring in junk science data
View ArticleKeystone XL bill expected to pass in U.S. Senate Thursday before facing Obama...
The U.S. Senate will likely pass a bill approving the long-pending Keystone XL oil pipeline on Thursday, a measure the White House has said President Barack Obama would veto.
View ArticleU.S. EPA's Keystone review links Canadian oilsands to higher carbon emissions
The EPA's conclusion gives President Barack Obama reason to reject the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, one environmental group said
View ArticleObama vetoes Keystone XL bill, but White House says pipeline's approval still...
Obama issued the third veto of his presidency Tuesday to reject legislation that would allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built
View ArticleObama's veto of Keystone XL bill is a slap in Canada's face
Claudia Cattaneo: Canada has championed the pipeline for years and did everything to get it approved, only to be led through a maze of roadblocks by its supposed best ally
View ArticleCanada's 'extraordinarily dirty' oil extraction is reason for Keystone XL...
'The way that you get the oil out in Canada is an extraordinarily dirty way of extracting oil… there are always risks in piping a lot of oil through the country'
View ArticleObama's newly harsh tone on Keystone XL seen signaling rejection of pipeline...
While the White House insists Obama hasn’t made up his mind yet on Keystone XL, some analysts say his rhetorical shift suggests otherwise
View ArticleKeystone XL's final blow from Barack Obama could come by Labour Day weekend
Claudia Cattaneo: As if oilpatch conditions weren’t bad enough, the latest in Washington is that Obama will finally deny a permit to the pipeline next Thursday or Friday, when many are out of town
View ArticleTransCanada Corp vows to find a way to get Keystone XL built, remains...
Immediately after U.S. President Barack Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline Friday, the company that has been trying to build it for seven years vowed to find a way to complete the project
View ArticleU.S. union boss slams Obama for being 'hypocrite' in Keystone XL pipeline...
With oil train explosions becoming a weekly occurrence in the U.S., safe oil transportation should come before politics, said Sean McGarvey, president of North America's Building Trades Unions
View ArticlePhilip Cross : The election of Donald Trump is a repudiation of Barack Obama
The billionaire, who openly bragged about being rich and not paying taxes, has set the stage for rejection of Obama's climate change and inequality mantras
View ArticleKevin Libin: Obama just nailed down his legacy as a cynical, class-warfare...
During the final address of his tenure, the president returned to his favourite battleground for social division: pitting the masses against the one per cent
View ArticleKevin Libin: The only leader left who can expose the pointlessness of the...
The empty posturing of the UN's climate campaign is well known by now, but it might finally get called out for it by the most powerful leader in the world, President Donald Trump
View ArticleLawrence Solomon: Trump finally ends the undemocratic autocracy of Obama’s...
Thwarted by the legislative branch of the U.S. government, Obama decided on one-man rule
View ArticlePeter Foster: Obama just wiped his shoes on the Maple Leaf, and Canadians...
What brand of sado-masochism would lead Albertans to give 'a rock star welcome' to the man significantly responsible for the desperate state of the Canadian oil industry?
View ArticleCanadian companies shoot for the stars (literally). Next up: the moon, maybe...
Virtual reality gurus from Montreal, precision camera whizzes from Manitoba boldly go where no Canadian has gone before
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