On Alberta’s Budget 2018
The Alberta Government released its 2018/19 Fiscal Year Budget this past week, and many people are talking about what it does, or does not address. Yesterday, noted Alberta economist Trevor…
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Canada’s Fearless Tax Warrior
That intrepid capeless crusader for core Conservative concepts, Finance Minister ‘Uncle’ Joe Oliver, has found yet another weapon in his utility pouch to save us from the implacable clutches of…
API’s New ‘Vote 4 Energy’ Ad Campaign Is Thinly Veiled Election Year Bullying
API Vote 4 Energy.jpg American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard today announced the oil and gas industry’s latest election-year scare campaign to threaten the demise of the U.S. economy unless…
Saudi Arabia and Ethical Oil Group Go Head to Head Over Ads
20110729-ethical-oil-campaign.jpg The controversial Ethical Oil ads, which enjoyed an exclusive run on the Oprah Winfrey Network at the end of August, have earned a new enemy: the ...
Hillary Clinton’s State Department Oil Services and the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline [VIDEO]
Hillary Clinton State Dept Oil Services Keystone XL.png With over 700 people arrested so far in the Keystone XL tar sands action taking place at the Obama White House, and…
EIA Head Objected to Politically Dictated “Garbage” Subsidy Report, But Delivers it Anyway
Subsidies.jpg Stephen Lacey from ClimateProgress on Tuesday detailed a letter sent to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) by three GOP House members asking the EIA to use loaded assumptio...
Chesapeake "Declaration of Energy Independence": NAT GAS Act Embodied
T Boone Pickens.png This article has been cross-posted with permission of the Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch. On July 11, Chesapeake Energy, the second largest methane gas corpor...