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Two-part blog featuring an article from the Daily Oil Bulletin published on June 2, 2015, and a small piece from The Economist published in their agenda on June 3, 2015. Daily Oil Bulletin article can be found here:  http://www.dailyoilbulletin.com/article/2015/6/2/european-oil-companies-rattle-coal-call-fee-carbon/  The Economist agenda can be found here:  http://link.economist.com/view/53b4aea9fdd5acf90c0005e52ob9b.6gu/971241d4  Part 1 - Daily Oil Bulletin Article: European Oil Companies Rattle Coal With With Call For Fee on Carbon Emissions (Reuters) — Europe's oil and gas companies took direct aim at the coal industry Monday, calling upon governments to set a global price on carbon emissions that could dramatically drive market share from coal to natural gas.  The joint declaration issued by six European oil and gas majors was cautiously embraced by the  United Nations , which will host negotiations this December in Paris aimed at designing a ...

Article published on May 22nd in the Daily Oil Bulletin, can be retrieved here:  http://www.dailyoilbulletin.com/article/2015/5/22/petronas-announce-conditional-fid-canadian-ln/  (Reuters) — Malaysian state energy firm  PETRONAS  said on Friday it will announce a "conditional" final investment decision on its proposed liquefied natural gas export terminal in Canada in the coming weeks. This comes after the company reached a deal with British Columbia related to project on Wednesday.  "With this recent development, we are looking to achieve a conditional final investment decision in the coming weeks," president and group chief executive officer  Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin  said at a press conference where the company announced its first-quarter earnings.  "We will continue to have constructive engagements with the First Nation, and keep all avenues open as we move forward with our project," he added.  At roughly $36 billion, the total...

An activist asks - "What's with you people?!" By: Stewart Muir, Executive Director - Resource Works Article originally published in the Yukon News on May 13th, 2015, and can be retrieved here:  http://www.yukon-news.com/letters-opinions/why-dont-pro-mining-yukoners-fight-harder-for-their-livelihood/  Article can also be found on Resource Works website:  http://www.resourceworks.com/standing_up?utm_campaign=weekly_may27&utm_medium=email&utm_source=resourceworks  Coming from a global hotbed of environmentalism (Vancouver), when I travel I usually find myself in places that are far less tuned in to the currents of activism.  Not so when I made my first trip to Whitehorse, where the people I met made it feel like I was coming home. The questions people are asking in Yukon, the concerns they're airing, would not be out of place in Vancouver, birthplace of Greenpeace.  So too is the polarization I found, where it seems like loud voi...

By: Cody Battershill Article originally featured in CAODC's Spring 2015 edition of their magazine, The Hitch.  Your job is important to you and even more critical to your future plans. Things like going on vacation, buying a new car, starting a family and even owning a home are all contingent on our jobs.  As much as you might value your job, there is an entire industry with people employed with the explicit goal of taking your job away. Lobby groups whose entire purpose, entire business model, is to get you fired. They work full time with big budgets to ensure that you don't drill another well; that you, don't dig in the Oilsands, and that you don't get the opportunity to work hard for a good wage in Canada's oil and gas sector.  One Oilsands company that recently delayed a project saw a paid employee of one of these lobby groups cheering and celebrating that 70 Canadians had lost their jobs. "POW", "BAM" and other celebratory remarks ...

Article originally published in Energy Processing Canada's March/April 2015 edition. Visit them online at northernstar.ab.ca  Oil and gas worksites can be dangerous places because workers operate heavy, moving equipment and sometimes handle dangerous substances. Industry employees and the numerous contractors who work together can be severely hurt or there can be fatal incidents if they are inexperienced, untrained or inadequately supervised.  The responsibility for work site safety is a shared responsibility, however the regulations place specific responsibilities on the owner, operating companies (lease holders), and the prime contractor. The responsibilities require them to ensure that new, young, inexperienced and transferred workers have received a general safety orientation prior to accessing any active work site, and to provide those organizations with assurance that workers are receiving the required orientation that addresses the OHS requirements. A...

CAPP Speaker Series featuring Deryck Spooner: April 1st, 2015 Below is the speech and presentation by Deryck Spooner, Senior Director for External Mobilization for the American Petroleum Institute in Washington D.C. The entire speaker series video, featuring the audio for Deryck's speech can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GuIxc0aVLE  Deryck Spooner – Thank you for inviting me to come from the U.S. to wonderful Calgary, the weather is beautiful. I actually didn’t bring a coat or nothing, so I’m really happy about that. I think in D.C. now it’s about 60 degrees, very close to what you guys have here. Looking across the audience, I am very excited because I do see a lot of young people like myself, which means things are changing within the oil and gas industry, and that’s a good thing. I also see a lot of females in the industry and it’s important that we do diversify our industry. I’m really excited about that.  What we are going to talk ab...