Thursday, January 30, 2025

First Nations Sick of Being Left Empty-Handed as Environmentalists Kill B.C. Energy Projects

From the Financial Post While opponents steal the limelight, scores of pro-development First Nations groups worry they’ll lose once-in-a-lifetime opportunities that could lift people out of poverty. Ellis Ross is filled with gut-wrenching dread as several major proposed energy projects unravel in British Columbia. The former chief counsellor of the Haisla Nation near Kitimat has laboured for more than 13 years

Alaska

Interior Dept. to Begin Processes to Lease ANWR this Month

From The Washington Examiner Drilling ANWR at least a decade away: Murkowski The Trump administration this month will begin the process of opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and natural gas leasing. Interior Department officials visited Alaskan communities this week to let them know the agency in March will publish a notice in the Federal Register of its

Sidetracked by Cost Overruns, California Bullet Train’s $77 Billion Price Tag is a Beast

Bullet train: now more than double original estimates The most expensive infrastructure project in the country just became significantly more expensive, according to the Los Angeles Times. The rail authority for California’s bullet train project, which seeks to essentially join Southern California to Northern California via a blazing fast few hours on a train, revised its cost estimates today, announcing

U.S. Rigs Keep Creeping Upward – Almost to 1,000

984 rigs currently drilling, highest since April 2015 U.S. drilling activity rose slightly once again this week, marking the third-straight week of mild increases in activity, according to Baker Hughes’ Weekly Rig Count. The total number of rigs operational increased by three to 984, meaning rigs have risen by three for each of the past three weeks. Four land-based rigs

Future Production Growth – Here’s Where It’s Coming From

U.S. shale likely to dominate through 2025 Shale, deepwater and oil sands will drive the majority of production growth in the next 35 years, according to an EIA study. Problem is that will require tremendous amounts of capital. Tight oil, oil sands and deepwater offshore benefited from steadily rising investment before the downturn, and accounted for about 30% of all