The purpose of the University of Ottawa’s Positive Energy initiative is to use “the convening power of the university to bring together academic researchers and senior decision-makers from industry, government, indigenous communities, local communities and environmental organizations to determine how to strengthen public confidence in energy decision-making.”[…]

It has been nine years since Daniel Yergin published The Quest, a panoramic examination of the energy industry — its evolution, its booms and busts, and how it propels the economic ambitions and geopolitical fortunes of governments[…]

BREAKDOWN: The Pipeline Debate and the Threat to Canada’s Future is Dennis McConaghy’s sequel to his 2017 DYSFUNCTION: Canada after Keystone XL, which chronicled the saga of the Keystone XL project and its ultimate rejection in November 2015 by President […]

The rise of the Canadian oil sands is a remarkable story. In THE PATCH: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands, Chris Turner recounts the many facets of that story, comprehensively and objectively[…]

As this issue of Energy Regulation Quarterly goes to press, the political and regulatory framework governing federal pipelines is in turmoil, resulting directly from the late-August decision of the Federal Court of Appeal quashing approval of the proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMX)[…]