Congratulations to Canada and British Columbia for a successful hosting of the 2010 Winter Olympics!
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
BC Hydro subsidiary battles U.S. poacher
BC Hydro subsidiary battles U.S. poacher
Efforts by a Wall Street financial giant to poach employees and business from a lucrative government-owned energy trading operation in Vancouver are proving expensive for British Columbia taxpayers.
BC Hydro subsidiary corporation Powerex has lost 10 energy trading team members in a continuing employee raid by New York-based financial services firm Morgan Stanley, according to an internal memo obtained by The Vancouver Sun...
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Efforts by a Wall Street financial giant to poach employees and business from a lucrative government-owned energy trading operation in Vancouver are proving expensive for British Columbia taxpayers.
BC Hydro subsidiary corporation Powerex has lost 10 energy trading team members in a continuing employee raid by New York-based financial services firm Morgan Stanley, according to an internal memo obtained by The Vancouver Sun...
Click link above for entire story from the Vancouver Sun
Saturday, February 20, 2010
SitNews - Canadian Tsimshian Was A Leader For Alaska Native Rights By DAVE KIFFER
SitNews - Canadian Tsimshian Was A Leader For Alaska Native Rights By DAVE KIFFER
Ketchikan, Alaska - Although the vast majority of the leaders in the Alaska Native civil rights movement were Tlingits, one of the founders and early leaders was a Tsimshian, originally from Canada, named Peter Simpson.
Simpson was one of the founders of the Alaskan Native Brotherhood in 1912, the only non Tlingit among the early advocates. And many in the Native community consider him one of the forces behind Native land claims efforts...
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Ketchikan, Alaska - Although the vast majority of the leaders in the Alaska Native civil rights movement were Tlingits, one of the founders and early leaders was a Tsimshian, originally from Canada, named Peter Simpson.
Simpson was one of the founders of the Alaskan Native Brotherhood in 1912, the only non Tlingit among the early advocates. And many in the Native community consider him one of the forces behind Native land claims efforts...
Click link above to access the full story in Sitnews.com
GE Energy Finance Unit May Expand B.C. Wind Farm (Update1) - BusinessWeek
GE Energy Finance Unit May Expand B.C. Wind Farm (Update1) - BusinessWeek
Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- General Electric Co.’s energy finance unit said it may double the capacity of a wind farm in British Columbia, increasing its bet on renewable-power in Canada’s westernmost province.
GE and Vancouver-based Plutonic Power Corp. last year bought the unfinished, 144-megawatt Dokie Ridge Wind Project, the first equity investment in wind energy in Canada for both companies.
“British Columbia has tremendous natural resources that are ideal for large-scale renewable energy projects,” Alex Urquhart, who runs the energy financial services unit, a division of Fairfield, Connecticut-based General Electric’s GE Capital division, said in a statement today.
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Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- General Electric Co.’s energy finance unit said it may double the capacity of a wind farm in British Columbia, increasing its bet on renewable-power in Canada’s westernmost province.
GE and Vancouver-based Plutonic Power Corp. last year bought the unfinished, 144-megawatt Dokie Ridge Wind Project, the first equity investment in wind energy in Canada for both companies.
“British Columbia has tremendous natural resources that are ideal for large-scale renewable energy projects,” Alex Urquhart, who runs the energy financial services unit, a division of Fairfield, Connecticut-based General Electric’s GE Capital division, said in a statement today.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Arctic gas by 2017 February 21 - Petroleum News
Arctic%20gas%20by%202017%20-%20February%2021,%202010 - Petroleum News
Canada’s Mackenzie Gas Project could be onstream as early as 2017 and Alaska’s North Slope project could be delivering gas to Lower 48 markets three or four years later, predicts consultant Ziff Energy Group.
And, regardless of the enormous capital costs to develop Arctic gas and compete with abundant shale gas supplies, the two projects are tied to expectations for gas prices in the 20 years after they are completed, not what happens over the next decade, the Calgary-based firm said.
Canada’s Mackenzie Gas Project could be onstream as early as 2017 and Alaska’s North Slope project could be delivering gas to Lower 48 markets three or four years later, predicts consultant Ziff Energy Group.
And, regardless of the enormous capital costs to develop Arctic gas and compete with abundant shale gas supplies, the two projects are tied to expectations for gas prices in the 20 years after they are completed, not what happens over the next decade, the Calgary-based firm said.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Electricity: A new industrial pillar for the B. C economy - Vancouver Sun
Electricity: A new industrial pillar for the B. C economy
To say that the atmosphere in Vancouver is electric is something of a double entendre. Certainly, thousands of visitors surging through the streets to take in the Olympic Games and related activities have recharged our sleepy little town, but a series of announcements tied to Premier Gordon Campbell's clean-energy program this week may do more in the long run to bring power to the people.
Click links above for full story
To say that the atmosphere in Vancouver is electric is something of a double entendre. Certainly, thousands of visitors surging through the streets to take in the Olympic Games and related activities have recharged our sleepy little town, but a series of announcements tied to Premier Gordon Campbell's clean-energy program this week may do more in the long run to bring power to the people.
Click links above for full story
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Northeast transmission line would create 'energy corridor' that could boost our clean power exports, Liberals say - Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun
Northeast transmission line would create 'energy corridor' that could boost our clean power exports, Liberals say - Vaughn Palmer - Vancouver Sun
Following the push to build a new transmission line into northwestern B.C., the provincial Liberals want to extend the power grid to the northeast as well, as part of what they are calling a "northern energy corridor."
"New transmission infrastructure will link northeastern B.C. to our integrated grid," declared the speech from the throne last week.
The move was touted as a way to "provide clean power to the energy industry" and to "open up new capacity for clean power exports to Alberta and Saskatchewan."
Following the push to build a new transmission line into northwestern B.C., the provincial Liberals want to extend the power grid to the northeast as well, as part of what they are calling a "northern energy corridor."
"New transmission infrastructure will link northeastern B.C. to our integrated grid," declared the speech from the throne last week.
The move was touted as a way to "provide clean power to the energy industry" and to "open up new capacity for clean power exports to Alberta and Saskatchewan."
Monday, February 8, 2010
Whitehorsestar.com - Leaders discuss salmon, caribou, pipeline
Whitehorsestar.com - Leaders discuss salmon, caribou, pipeline
Whitehorse Star - Whitehorse, YK
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell and Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie met in Whitehorse recently to discuss issues ranging from the Yukon River salmon fishery, the Porcupine Caribou herd, the Skagway port, natural gas to possible wind and hydro options.
Click the link above to read details in the Whitehorse Star.
Whitehorse Star - Whitehorse, YK
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell and Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie met in Whitehorse recently to discuss issues ranging from the Yukon River salmon fishery, the Porcupine Caribou herd, the Skagway port, natural gas to possible wind and hydro options.
Click the link above to read details in the Whitehorse Star.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Terrace Standard - The last run to Eurocan
Terrace Standard - The last run to Eurocan
ON FRIDAY Jan. 22, after nearly 17 years on the road with Excel Transportation Inc. Mark Penner completed his last wood chip run to the soon-to-be-closed Eurocan.
With his truck loaded from Pacific Inland Resources in Smithers, Penner hit the ever-familiar Hwy37 South towards the pulp and paper mill in Kitimat which will make its last paper tomorrow, and officially close Jan. 31 after 40 years of operation.
“A lot of people don’t know what they’re going to do,” said Penner of his fellow workers who will be out of a job this Friday Jan. 29 when the Terrace Excel terminal will close its doors after 24 years of service.
ON FRIDAY Jan. 22, after nearly 17 years on the road with Excel Transportation Inc. Mark Penner completed his last wood chip run to the soon-to-be-closed Eurocan.
With his truck loaded from Pacific Inland Resources in Smithers, Penner hit the ever-familiar Hwy37 South towards the pulp and paper mill in Kitimat which will make its last paper tomorrow, and officially close Jan. 31 after 40 years of operation.
“A lot of people don’t know what they’re going to do,” said Penner of his fellow workers who will be out of a job this Friday Jan. 29 when the Terrace Excel terminal will close its doors after 24 years of service.
Terrace Standard - Power line twinning cost probed
Terrace Standard - Power line twinning cost probed
THE PROVINCIAL government is estimating how much it might cost to build the Northwest Transmission Line’s towers so that more lines could be added if demand to move power increases.
Making provision for expansion makes sense when building any kind of large infrastructure project, said provincial energy minister Blair Lekstrom about the plan to build the line 335km from the Skeena substation near Terrace up Hwy37 North.
“I think with a lot of the infrastructure you build in B.C. you build with a view for the future at the most economical cost,” Lekstrom said last week.
THE PROVINCIAL government is estimating how much it might cost to build the Northwest Transmission Line’s towers so that more lines could be added if demand to move power increases.
Making provision for expansion makes sense when building any kind of large infrastructure project, said provincial energy minister Blair Lekstrom about the plan to build the line 335km from the Skeena substation near Terrace up Hwy37 North.
“I think with a lot of the infrastructure you build in B.C. you build with a view for the future at the most economical cost,” Lekstrom said last week.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Alaska gas could bypass Alberta - Calgary Herald
Alaska gas could bypass Alberta
In a potential blow to Alberta's petrochemical sector, the proposed Alaska pipeline could bypass the province depending on the outcome of an open season filed Friday by the main sponsors -- Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. and Irving, Texas-based Exxon-Mobil Corp.
The partners formally submitted their intention to solicit shipping commitments for the proposed pipeline to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the first time in Alaska history that a regulatory application has been filed for natural gas development on the North Slope.
In a potential blow to Alberta's petrochemical sector, the proposed Alaska pipeline could bypass the province depending on the outcome of an open season filed Friday by the main sponsors -- Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. and Irving, Texas-based Exxon-Mobil Corp.
The partners formally submitted their intention to solicit shipping commitments for the proposed pipeline to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the first time in Alaska history that a regulatory application has been filed for natural gas development on the North Slope.
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