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By Meribeth Deen on May 15, 2013

Energy companies are undoubtedly relieved that the BC Liberals, led by Christy Clark, will keep running the province. It means that Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline, and Kinder-Morgan’s Trans-Canada pipeline remain on the table - despite a few conditions Premier Clark has already laid out.

By Meribeth Deen on April 5, 2013

The French oil industry has accused the government of creating a double standard by approving geothermal exploration licenses, while maintaining a longstanding ban on hydraulic fracturing.

By Meribeth Deen on April 3, 2013

The EPA’s recently released Tier 3 Standards will cut the amount of sulphur in gasoline sold in the US by sixty percent, which is good for both fuel quality and air quality.

By Meribeth Deen on March 29, 2013

If shipping crude oil by rail is safer than shipping it by pipeline, the derailment proves that it is still not fail-safe, and the clean-up is just as tricky.

By Meribeth Deen on March 27, 2013

“California regulates massage therapists more than hydraulic fracturing,” says state Assembly member Richard Bloom, one of the three Democrats calling for a fracking moratorium in the state.

By Meribeth Deen on March 12, 2013
Wind turbines in Halkirk

As a panelist on the Pembina Institute’s webinar, Competing in Clean Energy, Dan Balaban, CEO of Greengate Power, said that Canada’s clean energy policies are the worst in the world, and since starting up his company in 2007, every form of government support for his business has vanished.

By Meribeth Deen on January 25, 2013

Anyone hooked up to the grid in British Columbia can now make good on beef-eating and dairy consumption. The province’s Cowpower program gives people the option to pay a small premium on their utility bill to help pay off a dairy farmer’s investment into an anaerobic digester - so that heat-trapping methane can be used to make power.

By Meribeth Deen on January 24, 2013

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg addressed mayors from around the world this week at the 10th Annual Transforming Transportation conference in Washington DC, urging them to address traffic congestion.

By Meribeth Deen on January 17, 2013

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the Lesser Prairie Chicken as a threatened species and by next September, will decide whether or not to list it as endangered. If it does, energy projects in Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico  could come to a grinding halt.

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