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| A flood of investor money set to come down the pipeline
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Friday, February 02, 2007
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This is shaping up to be the year of the pipeline. There was a hint things were heating up a couple of years back when TransCanada PipeLines announced it was getting back into shipping oil down to the United States. Now it appears things are really going to start moving.
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| Petrocan development costs a starting gun for mergers
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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When Petro-Canada reported its fourth-quarter results last week, it was hard not to get stuck on the company's finding and developments costs.Depending on which analysis one chose, the number was anywhere from being north of $45 to as high as $70 a barrel of oil equivalent.
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| Playground keeps getting smaller for Big Oil
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Friday, January 26, 2007
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Anyone out there who doesn't understand the tectonic shift taking place in the world of the big energy companies -- the supermajors like BP, Exxon Mobil and Chevron -- need look no further than Shell Canada.
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| Taking the trust case to the Hill
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
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There's no question that energy trusts have had an ugly time of it the past few months. The fourth quarter of 2006 was looking soft enough before Finance Minister Jim Flaherty gave it a roundhouse punch that sent the sector into the ropes.
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| BP's Browne saw the highs -- and lately lows -- as CEO
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
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It's probably not how Sir John Browne envisioned his exit from BP. Instead of leaving in 2008, Lord Browne found himself embroiled in what is tantamount to a boardroom putsch and is leaving the company -- which he helped turn around -- six months from now instead of the intended farewell in 18 months.
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| Plight of homeless draws might of Calgary CEOs
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Friday, January 12, 2007
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Twenty-four Calgary executives and community leaders said this week that they're frustrated with government inaction at all three levels over homelessness in the city and will present their own solution to the problem within 18 months.
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| Oil patch consolidation coming
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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Where is a good Arctic cold front when you need it?The year is less than two weeks old and the price of oil has dropped by $10.61 (U.S.) a barrel from the $66.25 it averaged in 2006. Natural gas is in a similar state, with storage volumes at record-high levels.
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| BA puts Air Canada on notice with direct flights to London
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Friday, December 15, 2006
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British Airways, after a 25-year absence, began direct flights between Calgary and London's Heathrow Airport this month, using its long-haul Boeing 777 aircraft.That's going to put Air Canada, which has been the only regularly scheduled option for anyone wanting to fly from Edmonton or Calgary to London since buying Canadian Airlines in 2000, in the position of having to adjust to some sophisticated competition.
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| Oil trusts may be prey for juniors
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
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Even though the deal to sell his company had fallen apart just before the weekend, Craig Stewart was surprisingly upbeat on Monday morning.That's because the chief executive officer of Rider Resources Ltd., who had agreed to sell his company to Shiningbank Energy Income Fund back in September for $426-million, has a plan and the ability to carry it out.
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| Chavez gives boost to oil sands
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Friday, December 08, 2006
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The re-election of Hugo Chavez as President of Venezuela for a second term this week means the world should get ready for another six years of sabre-rattling aimed at keeping oil prices high.
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| Will Stelmach hoe the same old ground?
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
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The election of Ed Stelmach as new leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives last weekend was mostly greeted with ''better Ed than Ted'' by Calgary's corporate community on Monday morning.
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| Russian oil comes with Faustian bargain
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Friday, December 01, 2006
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Energy companies entertaining the notion that the value of oil and natural gas reserves in Russia outweighs the risks involved in operating there would be best advised to take a harder look.
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| Foreign screening needs sensible rules
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Deborah Yedlin
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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For a government that believes in the free market, the federal Tories seem to be doing an awful lot of meddling.In addition to taxing income trusts and moving to limit their access to capital over the next four years, the Harper government is looking at putting restrictions on the kind of foreign companies that are welcome to do business in Canada and how they operate.
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| Corporate Alberta roots for Dinning to lead Tories
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Friday, November 24, 2006
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If there is one phrase that strikes fear in the heart of Corporate Alberta, it's this: Premier Ted Morton. That's why, given a poll released early yesterday showing Jim Dinning and Ted Morton in a virtual dead heat for the Progressive Conservative party leadership, the business community will be on pins and needles this weekend when provincial Tories elect their new leader.
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| Trust deals twist in the wind
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
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It's one thing to tinker with tax policy -- as the federal government did at the expense of income trusts on Halloween -- but should the government dictate how the affected trusts can finance their respective business plans? That appears to be where the Conservatives are heading.
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| First nations blur the pipeline picture
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Friday, November 17, 2006
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Just when you thought the Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline might dislodge itself from the political and bureaucratic quagmire, along comes another ruling that could stop everything. Again.This time, it's assuaging the concerns of the 2,500 members of the Dene Tha First Nation about the $7.5-billion project.
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| Democrats, energy don't mix
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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The outcome of last week's U.S. midterm elections has the potential to have a significant impact on the energy world.With their newfound control over Congress (the House and the Senate), it's possible the Democrats will reopen the $2.8-billion (U.S.) energy bill passed last year.
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| A new energy-sector playbook
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Friday, November 10, 2006
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Since it seems unlikely that oil patch executives will get Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to spare energy trusts from new taxation, let's look at what this will mean for the entire energy sector.
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| How Morgan went from hero to pariah
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Deborah Yedlin
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
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In less than a year, former EnCana chief executive officer Gwyn Morgan has taken a page from Charlie Brown's book and gone from hero to goat.You could say Mr. Morgan, who championed the merger of PanCanadian Energy and Alberta Energy to create the second-largest producer of natural gas on the continent headquartered in Canada, dropped the ball.
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| Shock and anger, sense of betrayal in the oil patch
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DAVID EBNER, DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Thursday, November 02, 2006
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Alberta's trust-laden oil patch vented its anger and sense of betrayal at the Tory government yesterday after Ottawa moved to impose new taxes on income trusts.''This is not the way to go about making good policy,'' said John Brussa, a top tax lawyer at Burnet Duckworth and Palmer LLP and one of pioneers of the energy trust structure two decades ago.
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| Arts new frontier for province's leaders
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006
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This may come as a shock, but arts funding has actually made it onto the agenda of at least three candidates seeking to replace outgoing Alberta Premier Ralph Klein.Can this be Alberta, where the determining factor for any enterprise -- profit or not-for-profit -- is whether it makes money?
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| OPEC chief's theory works, but only on paper
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DEBORAH YEDLIN
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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Over lunch this week, Dr. Edmund Daukoru made a couple of bold predictions to a gathering of oil patch executives. First, daily global oil consumption will rise to 113 million barrels a day by 2025. And second, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries -- which he currently leads -- will contribute 50 million barrels of that daily requirement.
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