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Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show 2019

In a year where the oilpatch’s woes have become increasingly political, the presence of two premiers and the entire provincial Saskatchewan cabinet at the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show on June 5 was the strongest indication in years of government support for the oil and gas sector in this province. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, left, strode through the outdoor exhibits with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, after visiting the “Minion Tank,” seen in the background, brought in by Campbell Oilfield Services. Photo by Brian Zinchuk

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Husky will pay fines totalling $3.82 million for 2016 spill into North Saskatchewan River

By John Cairns Battlefords NewsOptimist Lloydminster – Husky Oil Operations Ltd. has been penalized $3.82 million after entering three guilty pleas in connection to the oil spill into the North Saskatchewan River on July 20 and 21, 2016.

Husky pleaded guilty in Lloydminster court on June 12 to two federal counts: allowing the deposit of a deleterious substance, blended heavy crude oil, contrary to s.40(2) of the Fisheries Act, and one count of permitting a substance harmful to migratory birds, blended heavy crude oil, under the Migratory Birds Convention Act. Husky Oil Operations Ltd. also entered a guilty plea on one provincial count for violating the Environmental Management and Protection Act. The guilty pleas cover the period July 20 and 21, 2016. The charges had initially covered a longer period but amendments were agreed to which reduced the time frame to those two days.

The Crown withdrew the seven counts against Husky Oil Operations Ltd. of not taking reasonable measures to prevent the deposit of a deleterious substance under s. 40 (3) (e) Fisheries Act. As well, all federal charges filed against the parent company Husky Energy Inc. have been withdrawn.

The pleas were entered the morning of June 12 in Lloydminster Provincial Court before Judge Lorna Dyck. She accepted the sentence recommendations, which were a joint submission from the federal and provincial Crown as well as the defence.

On the federal charges, Judge Dyck imposed a fine of $2.5 million on the Fisheries Act count, or $1.25 million for each day July 20 and 21. The sentence falls within the range; the charge carries a minimum fine of $100,000 and a maximum of $4 million for each day for this offence.

On count nine, the migratory birds charge,

Dyck went along with the joint submission to impose a $200,000 fine. Both fines are payable to the Environmental Damages Fund which goes to benefit the environment.

The penalty imposed on the provincial count was a fine on the provincial count of $800,000, or $400,000 per day. The provincial surcharge was $320,000, for a total penalty of $1.12 million. This also fell within the range with the judge noting the maximum sentence is $1 million per day. The money here would go to the Impacted Sites Fund set up to clean up environmentally impacted sites.

The fines are payable immediately, said Dyck.

Various other standalone orders were also made.

In her remarks, Judge Dyck found the conduct of Husky towards the lower end of the scale. This was not an intentional act, she said. There were two previous convictions against Husky, both related to improper operations of sewer systems in Ontario; Dyck called these of limited application in this case. Dyck also acknowledged the guilty plea taking place prior to a trial date being set, as well as changes to practises and procedures by Husky as evidence of corporate remorse and contrition.

Dyck also noted the harm done by the spill as outlined in the agreed statement of facts. Judge Dyck was of the view that the need for general deterrence was a significant sentencing factor in this case.

It was a lengthy proceeding for all parties in the case that morning.

Provincial Crown prosecutor Matthew Miazga and federal Crown prosecutor Carol Carlson delivered a lengthy presentation in the morning on the agreed statement of facts filed in the case, outlining events leading up to and during the oil spill. It was acknowledged that the spill came about after the pipeline buckled due to ground movement.

Victim impact statements took place soon after.

Chief Wayne Semaganis of Little Pine read a joint victim impact statement on behalf of Little Pine, Red Pheasant and Sweetgrass.

Councillors from Red Pheasant and Sweetgrass were also present.

Chief Semaganis pointed to their treaty rights to hunt, trap and fish, and pointed to the impacts of contamination to the fish in the river as well as the water supply.

Semaganis cited the damage to fish and waterfowl, and said First Nations members no longer hunt on or near reserve lands, no longer fish in the river, no longer trap on or near reserve lands, no longer farm on reserve lands, no longer collect medicinal and other plants in the vicinity of the river, and no longer drink water drawn from reserve lands. Instead, band members drink bottled water, said Semaganis.

Semaganis also described the anxiety, fear, physical stress and inconvenience. He also called the cleanup of the contamination “inadequate and incomplete.”

Two more victim impact statements were filed, one from the city of North Battleford and the other from the city of Prince Albert. Those outlined the impact of the disruption to their water delivery and other services to both cities.

North Battleford’s statement noted they were unable to water their parks and green spaces, and the water treatment operators had to manage additional filtration plant and a water service line from the town of Battleford.

The impact was “dire, ongoing and will cause long-lasting changes to procedures and processes,” the statement read.

The statement from Prince Albert was longer.

They were forced to discontinue use of the North Saskatchewan River and find alternatives. The statement described an “intensive and stressful situation” and also cited other disruptions including the closure of recreational services and car washes.

Following a break, federal Crown prosecutor Stephen Jordan presented the joint submission on the federal counts against Husky. Jordan noted the guilty plea was a mitigating factor that shows remorse.

“Husky has accepted responsibility, they have taken steps to make sure this never happens again,” said Jordan. However, he also pointed to the importance of the North Saskatchewan River as a factor.

Miazga spoke at length on the provincial count. He called the Husky case the “most complicated file” he’s ever been involved in, even more than a murder trial, and noted the “huge learning curve.”

Miazga referred to the numerous case management hearings held, and said a trial would have lasted weeks. Judge Dyck noted a trial would have lasted between two to four weeks.

Of the spill, Miazga said there has “never been an incident in Saskatchewan such as this.” Regarding the financial penalty, Miazga suggested preference be given for the funds to go to Sask. based organizations.

Husky’s lawyer, Brad Gilmour, began his submissions with an apology from Husky for the damage caused and to those affected.

Gilmour spent considerable time outlining Husky’s response to the spill, saying it should be seen as a “model” response.

He also outlined changes brought in by Husky in the aftermath of the spill.

Gilmour noted Husky implemented upgraded systems to respond to leak alarms. Husky has also made changes to control room operations, implemented control room management plans, clarified roles and responsibilities and revised the shift change process.

Husky also created a new position called a “Senior Spill Preparedness and Response Advisor” to oversee policies and procedures for spill preparedness and response. Six new

The spill on the North Saskatchewan River in 2016 caused serious drinking water difficulties for communities downstream. boats have been added as well for spill response.

These “clearly demonstrate an acceptance of responsibility on behalf of Husky,” said Gilmour.

Gilmour also said Husky acknowledges the incident “resulted in actual harm,” he said. It had “impacts on downstream communities as well as the environment.” Gilmour also acknowledged likely fish or bird mortalities as a result of the spill.

While there was actually harm, that harm had been remediated, he noted.

Gilmour said Husky “has expressed remorse for the incident and has taken responsibility since the incident.”

In a press release from Calgary, Husky CEO Rob Peabody said, “From the outset of this event, we accepted full responsibility for the spill and we restated that today.

“We recognize this event had significant impacts on the cities, towns and Indigenous communities along the river. We appreciate the way they worked with us on the cleanup and their patience and understanding in the months following the spill.”

Husky noted it has been doing business in the Lloydminster region for more than 70 years and it remains a cornerstone of the company’s operations.

“We understand that some people think we

could have done better.

After having such a long and successful history in this region, the event three years ago was a disappointment for all of us,” added Peabody. “It has been our goal to show through our actions that we learned from this event and are committed to being a good neighbour and partner.”

On July 21, 2016 a leak was discovered on a pipeline crossing the North Saskatchewan River. The pipeline was isolated at the river crossing and spill response crews were dispatched. Approximately 225 cubic metres (225,000 litres) of crude blended with condensate were released, with about 60 per cent of the volume contained on land. The cause was determined to be ground movement over time.

Husky said more than one million hours were worked on the cleanup response, involving about 2,600 personnel. At peak, more than 900 people were working simultaneously on the response.

Husky said it has used the lessons learned from this incident to improve its pipeline operations. These improvements include an updated leak response protocol, regular geotechnical reviews of pipelines and fibre optic sensing technology installed on all new large diameter and higher consequence projects.

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Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show 2019 a success

By Brian Zinchuk Weyburn – The Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show drew approximately 4,500 people during its two sunny days in Weyburn.

The biennial event highlighted the southeast Saskatchewan oilpatch.

The outdoor displays included two service rigs, a giant “Minion” water tank, numerous trucks and heavy equipment.

Indoors, you could see a machine which resurfaces flanges, or meet TEML’s new CEO, who spent the

day at the show. (They handed out chocolate bars hinting at an upcoming rebranding.)

But it was the appearance of both Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and recently-elected Alberta Premier Jason Kenney which stole the show.

They signed an agreement harmonizing service rig regulations, and sat down with show chair Del Mondor in a forum discussing issues facing the industry.

When asked if we’re seeing a national unity issue arising from the blocking

Dan Cugnet, left, walks with Premier Scott Moe and Premier Jason Kenney through the oil show on June 5.

Photo by Brian Zinchuk

of pipelines, their answer was yes.

Before the show started, there was an exhibitor golf tournament and a steak or lobster supper for exhibitors on Tuesday, June. 4.

Wednesday, June 5, saw the provincial cabinet meet onsite, before taking part in the show. Energy and Resources Minister Bronwyn Eyre presented the Saskatchewan Oil Patch Hall of Fame inductions to Dean Potter, Eldon McIntyre and Ray Frehlick. She also presented the Southeast Legends awards to Dean Pylypuk, Glen Grimes and Jerry Mainil.

Later in the afternoon the cabinet was given a tour of Panther Drilling Rig 1, at the drilling company’s yard just east of Weyburn. The cabinet had held their weekly meeting at the oil show earlier that morning.

“We got more government attention than we’ve ever got in the past,” said Tanya Hulbert, show manager.

Two of the highlights were the speeches

by Vivian Krause and Rex Murphy. Over 600 tickets

Abour 4,500 people attended the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show in Weyburn.

Photo by Brian Zinchuk were registered for Krause’ speech on June 5, while Murphy’s had over 500 on June 6. However, it is likely that many more people attended than the number of tickets scanned for the luncheon on June 6. Hulbert said the attendance for both of the speeches was double what they usually see for speakers.

“Everybody thought Vivian was great,” Hulbert said. “She had a great message. An excellent

speaker.”

“Rex captivated the audience,” she added.

Hulbert said there was good feedback from exhibitors, and lots wanted to pre-book for the next show.

“Thanks to all who made the show a great success,” Hulbert said.

Del Mondor, outgoing show board chair, said, “Once again the oil show did not disappoint.

Weyburn was buzzing

with activity. The weather was great. With Premier Moe and Premier Kenney coming it added to just how special this year was.

Rex Murphy and Vivian Krause were excellent with their own message of frustration that we all feel.

Our sponsors and board members all stepped up to provide a great time and helped with making this year very successful. We hope to see everyone back in 2021.”

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One national energy corridor for all?

A few months ago, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs mentioned something we hadn’t really heard much serious talk about before – a national energy corridor from west to east.

It’s a concept we’ve been hearing a lot of recently, from Higgs, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, and federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer.

“A Canada fueled by Canadians,” is how Scheer described it in a recent speech.

Scheer spoke of a corridor in which oil, gas, electricity, and potentially anything else that runs along the ground.

All the proponents seem to be singing from the same choir book.

He alluded to the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway which brought the country together.

The fundamental idea is that we, as a nation, designate this right-of-way as the place to put infrastructure, period. We do one, singular, environmental assessment of it, and once approved, we let ‘er rip. Whoever wants to build a pipeline or powerline can just go and do it. The work’s been done. Go hard, and Godspeed.

Let’s look at this realistically – where would this corridor go?

It was a question we put to Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney at the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show. Both had brought it up in their remarks.

We wanted to know if the proposed Energy East right-of-way, which had already been studied to death, would be it, or would another five years be needed to study some other right-of-way?

Moe said it was more important right now to get the discussion going as opposed to talking about a specific route. Kenney noted he is working on that end, and planned on discussing it while on the road to Eastern Canada in the days following the oil show.

But that doesn’t really solve the fundamental question: where would it go?

Given the recent passing of Bill C-69, the Impact Assessments Act, (which both Kenney and Moe call the nomore-pipelines act), starting from scratch on a new right of way is a recipe for another half decade to decade in assessments and legal challenges.

If a national energy corridor is to come into place, it should primarily focus on the Energy East right-of-way, from Hardisty, Alta, to St. John, N.B. In a broader perspective, the reality is, most of this proposed corridor already exists. It might not be all within one right of way, but it’s pretty close.

Through much of the Prairies, from west of Moose Jaw eastward, the TransCanada mainline is within a few kilometres of the TransCanada Highway. It crosses the

highway here and there, such that there is a compressor station a few kilometres south of Grenfell, but near Moosomin, that compressor station is north of the highway.

Also along this general path lies the Canadian Pacific Railway, the original line. So really, first came the railway, then the natural gas pipeline, then the highway.

They diverge in Ontario, however, with the railway running close to the lake shore, and the pipeline taking a more northernly route (which also has a highway running along it).

As you see, much of this “corridor” already exists. It exists because pipelines need road and/or rail nearby to allow access to the right-of-way by vehicle, and to bring in pipe, by rail.

We haven’t seen a lot of transmission powerlines along the prairie portion of this, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist or wouldn’t exist in Eastern Canada.

Maybe the “corridor,” as it were, doesn’t need to be a specific X metres wide right-of-way, but could encompass multiple, existing rights-of-ways. Maybe the corridor could be kilometres wide.

The real point behind this corridor is to restart and reinvigorate the Energy East Pipeline, if by another name.

But it should be more than one 42-inch pipe. It might be best to build two or three pipes – one for oil, and one or two for natural gas, eastbound. Don’t forget to throw in some fibre optic communications lines while you’re at it, too.

But that same right-of-way should include high voltage transmission lines such that both Quebec and Manitoba can sell their ample, green and cheap hydroelectricity to their neighbours.

For Saskatchewan, this might require a serious adjustment in our mindset, specially when it comes to being almost entirely self-reliant for our own power generation.

We’re soon going to be losing power generation from Boundary Dam Units 4 and 5 due to federal regulations.

The federal government would like to see all conventional coal shut down by 2030. Our first preference, by far, would be to incorporate carbon capture and storage across the remainder of the fleet, but if that doesn’t happen, we need to seriously look into buying a lot more Manitoba power, and maybe, just maybe, some from Quebec, too. This might mean a direct current backbone running across the country.

It would be something of a fair trade. If we are insisting that Quebec use our oil in their refineries, and allow it to be shipped across their province, maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to use their hydro to power our pumpjacks.

We send them molecules, they send us electrons.

This is the “nation-building” that Scheer, Moe, Higgs and Kenney speak of. It’s worth serious consideration, and our support.

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The oilpatch, and Alberta, saved Newfoundland This year, the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show (also referred to as the Weyburn Oil Show) went all out in getting guest speakers, and they surely did not disappoint.

In the movie about the Watergate scandal, All the President’s Men, the secret source, Deep Throat, implores the intrepid journalists to “follow the money.” That is a notion Vivian Krause has done at great length over many years, and finally, in the last seven months or so, people have finally stood up and taken notice.

Krause has exposed the deep ties behind funding of various campaigns to landlock Canadian oil. She should be a rock star in the oilpatch, and I think she’s gaining a bit of that fame. She had very good attendance during her presentation, much better than most of the speakers I’ve seen over the last decade.

But it was the acerbic Rex Murphy, formerly of CBC and who does not appear to miss his former employer, who truly enraptured his audience on June 6.

Indeed, he wore his disdain for the Mother Corp, as it is known, quite clearly on his sleeve, especially their fawning for “Bishop Suzuki.”

To be clear, Rex Murphy is a Newfoundlander.

He was not born a Canadian. He was born a Newfoundlander, when the Rock was still its own dominion, a sovereign state. He only became a Canadian around the age of 2, when the nearly destitute nation was absorbed into Canada as its 10th province. But you wouldn’t know that from his speech. Indeed, he is a Canadian through and through, and he spoke about unity.

It was destitution that was very much a theme of his riveting speech. He spoke of how Newfoundland, and its people, were laid low by the cod fishing moratorium of 1992.

With no work at home, in desperation, he estimated over 30,000 Newfoundlanders went west to find jobs. Many stayed in the order of a decade.

“Employment is not just a damn paycheque. It is the spine of most peo-

ple’s existence,” Murphy said.

I should note that usually at these events, the speaker has to speak above the crowd. This time, you could hear a pin drop.

And that crowd was easily twice as large as what one usually expects at one of these luncheon speakers.

“Outside of family life itself, and mortality, I don’t think there’s anything more savage to the human personality than someone who wishes to work and has been working, and works no more.

And then they have to face the humiliations of either borrowing, begging, or going on some government program. Most people guard their dignity by their own self-reliance,” he said.

Murphy’s message was that when things were at their most bleak, those people came west.

And we, in the west, with our oil and gas, had jobs.

And paycheques. And as a result, these people were able to maintain, or reclaim, their dignity.

“It was one of the great moments of confederation that all people

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By Brian Zinchuk

from all over Canada were summoned to the western provinces. And people from provinces who had never intermingled before, were working on the same project, or allied projects,” Murphy said.

And he’s right. I’ve worked on pipelines with Newfoundlanders.

The commanding officer of the air cadet unit I was a part of in North Battleford called Fortune, Newfoundland, home. She was part of this great diaspora, and her sister and parents came, too. They came to the west, where there was work to be had. She spent many years as a grain buyer, if you can believe. But I digress.

Murphy took expected potshots against Neil Young, Leonardo DiCaprio and Catherine McKenna, he spoke to the crowd about the absurdities of the movement against oil. Where were the protests against Russian oil? Or Nigerian?

Why the “jihad against pipelines?”

He noted, “I cannot figure out. I do not know what processes are going on, in what strange minds,

Rex Murphy that has turned almost the entire energy of the country, especially at government level, and especially at various NGOs (non governmental organizations) and self-appointed monitors of the earth’s doom, that has made the oil industry the number one villain of the entire world.”

Rex Murphy has had the courage to tell Canadians for many years the truths many don’t want to acknowledge.

Fundamentally, he told the audience of the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show, rightly, that

they were good people, doing good work, and providing good jobs. That was a message they needed to hear.

We, as Canadians need to hear it. In my own, much less impressive way, I gave a similar speech in tone and message a year ago. We, in the oilpatch, are not Darth Vader. We are not the devil.

This is what we need to stand up and say. And I am so glad I got to sit in the front row to hear it.

Brian Zinchuk is editor of Pipeline News. He can be reached at brian.zinchuk@ sasktel.net.

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Moe and Kenney answer questions in oil show forum

By Brian Zinchuk Weyburn – Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show chair Del Mondor put a number of questions to Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in a forum before a packed curling rink on June 5.

The pair had just signed a memorandum of understanding to align service rig regulations between the two provinces. After lobbing a few softballs, Mondor finished with a question about national unity.

Kenney, whose went to school in Wilcox and used to play hockey in

Weyburn, said he wanted to “deepen the natural alliance between these two great provinces as champions of the resources industries, the Western Canadian economy, jobs and growth.”

He thanked Moe, the cabinet, former Premier Brad Wall and “all of the Saskies for having stood alone, in the federation, for the last several years, as the great defenders of the Western Canadian economy and the resource industries. And now, I’m pleased to tell you, that help is on the way.”

Moe added that in the last couple months,

he’s seen a change. “This is quite telling, with respect to our nation, and with respect to many of our hardworking families across Canada who are starting to realize exactly what it is that is creating wealth for our families. It is industries like agriculture. It’s industries like the energy industry, the manufacturing industries that support what I call the wealth generating industries. You’re right, Premier Kenney, it has been lonely at times.”

Moe thanked the people in the room, across the province and the nation for the support.

Mondor asked what

Del Mondor, left, posed questions to Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney.

are the economic prospects for each province.

Moe said, with regards to the energy sector, “I truly hope our toughest days are behind us.”

“Really, all of our industries in Saskatchewan, and I would say by extension, across Canada, really need three things. I call them the three T’s.

We need a tax and regulatory environment that is competitive, here in Saskatchewan. We need the ability to transport those goods that we produce, that we harvest and manufacture to countries around the world. And last but certainly not least, we need trade agreements with countries around the world. Saskatchewan does business with about 150 different countries each and every year. So we need trade, we need transportation, and we need a fair tax and regulatory environment.

“We need the three T’s. I won’t comment on the fourth T that we most certainly don’t need here,” he said.

“Who could he possibly be referring to?” Kenney said, regarding Moe’s oblique reference to Prime

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, right, spoke of the tough four years Alberta has gone through.

Minister Justin Trudeau.

He went on, “Let me just be blunt. Alberta has been through four very difficult years of economic decline and stagnation.

There’s just now point in sugar-coating this. Our economy today is four per cent smaller than it was four years ago. The average disposable income is

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“A lot of people had frozen business decisions. They weren’t hiring. They weren’t purchasing new equipment.

They weren’t making those deals,” Kenney said. But the small business confidence index increased 14 per cent in the last four weeks, he noted. The real estate industry has picked up as well.

“It’s critical that we restore investor confidence.

We’ve seen the flight of tens of billions of dollars, of jobcreating capital investment, fleeing Alberta over the last four years. Most of it, going from Alberta’s oil and gas sector to the oil and gas sector south of the border. It

hasn’t done anything to reduce energy production, or emissions, for that matter.

In fact, it’s generally money that’s gone to jurisdictions with generally lower environmental standards, and certainly no carbon taxes,” Kenney said.

“So we need to restore investor confidence. I’ve already been to Bay Street twice, and I can tell you major investors are paying attention,” he said, adding there will be some friendly competition with Saskatchewan. This will include lowering taxes in Alberta, the removal of Alberta’s carbon tax, and red tape reduction.

“We don’t only have a price differential. We have a regulatory differential. You can get a well license in west Texas in a month. It takes up to up to 18 months in Alberta right now. Quite frankly, Saskatchewan, you are eating our lunch on ap-

proval timelines. We intend to catch up, Scott.”

Competitiveness Mondor asked a question from SHOP, the Saskatchewan Headquartered Oil Producers, of which he is a member. He asked about competitiveness, saying, “What can we do, in our provinces, that we have control of, to increase our competitiveness, not just between Alberta and Saskatchewan, but between all jurisdictions in North America?”

Moe responded, “One, is within our jurisdiction, two is how we work together, as we just did, with the signing of the memorandum of understanding. Then the third would be, ultimately, to ensure we have like-minded provinces standing together to resist some of the outside forces that are being imposed on our industry, and an number of our industries. I think we’re totally ► Page A9

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Moe wonders why the U.S. has 3.6 unemployment, but we don’t ◄ Page A8 aligned with a number of premiers across the country.”

Referencing Alberta’s technical recession, Moe said, “We have essentially, in this nation, been doing that to ourselves. It’s policy decisions that are putting us into that type of conversation where we’re in a room where we’re even going to utter those words.”

He noted the U.S. has 3.6 per cent unemployment, and that investment is heading south of the

border.

“At 3.6 per cent unemployment, that’s the lowest level since 1969. There’s no reason for us to be talking about technical recession in Western Canada or anywhere in this nation.

There’s cause for us to have a much broader conversation about how do we produce our products sustainably and competitively, how do we ultimately get them to market, and ultimately, how do we do we preserve that market share that we have in those coun-

tries all around the world.”

Moe referred to the recent waterflood incentive, and an oil processing incentive that is coming.

“We need to continue to work on the things we can control within our jurisdictions, working closely with our industries, in Saskatchewan, and in Alberta. It’s the energy industry, the agriculture industry. Increasingly, the manufacturing industry, and the technology industry is coming into play as well. You have the oilsands in Alberta, we

have potash mines here in Saskatchewan. There are some differences in how we create our wealth, but we align on so many more industries then we actually have any differences on. It’s important for us to work together, but to pay attention within our jurisdictions.”

On competitiveness, Kenney replied that tax cuts, taking the corporate tax rate from 12 to eight per cent over installments will put Alberta ahead, unless Saskatchewan tries to

catch up. “This is one way to bring job-creating capital back to our economy,” he said.

Legislated timelines for project approvals is another area. Kenney noted it took five years for Imperial Oil to get approval for a cutting edge multi-billion dollar SAGD project. “Get moving at the speed of business rather than the torpor of bureaucracy will be a critical part of this,” he said.

He added that the

province of Alberta will ask rural municipalities to do their part, to “row in the same direction, creating jobs and growth, rather than killing the goose that lays the golden egg of job creation in our economy.”

Kenney said if the federal government isn’t aligned with them, they will be undermined.

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National unity is at play here, both premiers feel ◄ Page A9 approved, as indeed it was two weeks later. Moe said, “We need a few more. The conversation about an eastwest corridor needs to happen.”

He said he never understood why the federal government needed to buy that project.

Kenney said, “Let’s pull the camera back. After the cancellation of Northern Gateway, the killing of Energy East, surrender to Obama’s veto on Keystone XL, and you’re going to hear from Vivian Krause later on.

Our approach, in Alberta, is to move from a tactical approach, where we’re constantly on the defence for market access, for pipelines

and resources, to a proactive and strategic posture. To move from the apologetic and defensive to a assertive and proactive, in defence of a resource and our way of life.

“That begins with acknowledging why we are so landlocked now. This is the consequence of a 15-yearlong, foreign-funded campaign, which has spent tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars, in a campaign to landlock Canadian energy, and we must admit, that campaign has been massively successful.

“We keep looking to the next thing. It’s not about the second cabinet approval of TMX, it’s about the construction of it, the war in the woods that’s been threat-

ened by the foreign-funded forces of obstruction, and the forces of economic decline.”

Kenney said the same leaders of this obstruction wrote Bill C-69, the Impact Assessment Act, and Bill C-48, the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act. “All of these things are connected,” he said. It’s about putting those groups on defence, which is why the government of Alberta is funding a “war room” to counter these efforts.

“We are going to put the other side on the defence, and for once, be on the front foot, defending our way of life.”

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“Yes,” Kenney said matter of frankly, before breaking briefly into French. He thanked Quebec City MP Gerard Deltell for standing on that stage and saying the majority of Quebecers prefer ethically produced Canadian energy to OPEC dictator oil.

“This is, and should be, a national unity issue.

“This country was united only because our leaders had the vision to complete the transcontinental railway, national infrastructure that would arguably be impossible to build today according to today’s rules and politics. We need to capture that pioneer spirit of those who went before us who built things, who dreamed big, who understood how to develop, responsibly, the resources of this country in a way where we could share our prosperity.

“Let me just say this: Albertans and Saskatchewan folks are very generous. Alberta, in particular, has contributed over $600 billion, net to the confederation, through equalization and other transfers, since 1957. And we do not begrudge our friends in the rest of Canada receiving the benefit of that wealth. We are proud to have played that nation-building role, to help schools and hospitals in Quebec in Atlantic Canada and elsewhere be built because of our innovation and resources. All we ask, now, is the right and the ability to develop those resources, so we can continue to help, to

lift up those Canadians in other parts of the country.

“And to do that, it means we must have market access. We must have the infrastructure to get a fair price,” Kenney said.

“I would just say, in closing, it’s not just about nation-building. It’s the right thing to do for the world. Because the International Energy Agency projects that there will be a growing demand for oil and gas through at least 2040.

We’ve seen a 10 per cent growth in consumption in oil over the last decade alone, up by 10 million barrels per day, much of that furnished by production from south of the border, because there’s no carbon taxes. But also from increased production from some of the world’s worst regimes.”

He pointed out, “Either we abandon global energy markets to some of the world’s worst regimes, to the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela, to Vladimir Putin’s Russian autocracy, to regimes in the Middle East that treat women like property instead of people, to regimes that spread extremism and conflict around the world. Either we hand them a monopoly on these markets, to continue fueling instability, or we help supply much of that growing demand. It’s not just to supply Canada. I believe it’s the right thing to do, morally. The world needs more Canadian energy.”

Moe added, deadpan, “Ditto.”

He then said, “I absolutely agree. The con-

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“So most certainly, the conversation around our ability to actually supply the world with the products we have, and they’re not only natural resource products.

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“We have something to offer all Canadians, not just through the sharing of our wealth through the equalization program, but through the sharing of access to our products and having the ability to add value to our products like Saint John, New Brunswick,” he said.

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Rex Murphy can’t figure out what made the oil industry the number one villain of the entire world

By Brian Zinchuk Weyburn – In 1992, the cod fishery off the coast of Newfoundland collapsed, and the federal government brought in a moratorium.

For the first time in nearly 500 years if its existence, the people of Newfoundland were not allowed to fish for cod to put it on their table.

“When Mr. Crosby announced the offshore fishing was now finished, put on moratorium, there were 31,000 in-shore fishermen, that in a single moment, they were no longer allowed to fish. They were no longer allowed to jump in a dory, go out half a mile, jig a cod fish, put it on the table, and have supper,” said Rex Murphy, in the opening of his headline speech to the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show on June 6. That moratorium, and its impact, had grave impact on his home province, and its people. It was the oil industry in the West that was their salvation.

“It was the first time in 500 years. Just to give you an idea of how big 31,000 is with reference to the population of Newfoundland, if you had been in Toronto the next day, and I hope you

weren’t, and if you picked up the Globe and Mail, and I hope even more fervently that you wouldn’t. You would see a headline, that if the same thing had happened in Ontario, 660,000 Ontarians out of work, in a single day. That’s how big the blow was,” Murphy said.

And this is where the resource industries of Western Canada came in. People who had deserted homes that they had lived in for four generations. The outports were devasted.

He recounted how, during the dustbowl of the 1930s, Newfoundlanders sent barrels of salt cod to the prairies to help people who were starving, and that 65 years later, those people had not forgotten that kindness.

“Some of the great stories of Canada are sob stories. They’re stories where the people, and just the people, somehow or other sense each other’s need, or desperation, and a great act of kindness comes as an impulse.”

Murphy took shots at Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna, who had recently pointed to icebergs off New-

foundland as evidence of global warming.

“Do you know what year was when the Titanic sank? 1912, I believe. It was sunk, by an iceberg. So now we know the tragedy of the Titanic was caused by some people, somewhere, who were abusing plastic straws.”

Getting down to business, he said, “Even if you already know it, it doesn’t hurt to hear it again.”

“There are things you know so well, that in a sense, you cease to think of them.

They are so familiar to you, they become part of your daily consciousness, but not in any focus. It’s just they way things are, and you forget some of the most blatant considerations of your own existence.

“In this case, everyone here knows, when Newfoundland went down, it was one of the biggest crises we had had in at least 100 years.

The one relief, in the darkest hour, in the great cultural industry of the fishery, the defining cultural, economic, social, settlement, the defining element of the entire nature of Newfoundland, springs from the fishery. So it was psychological, it was

spiritual, it was economic.

“The only relief of substance, that came our way, was that so men, women, old and young, some of them selling their houses, headed out west, because that was during the period when the oil industry and related industries, were at their best. And such is the nature, again, of Canadians dealing with Canadians, there were no embargos, no Rex Murphy explained that in the Dirty Thirties, signs saying stay away. I estiNewfoundland sent barrels of salt cod to the prairie. mate, over time, over 30,000 “You will never read Newfoundlanders went out is the spine of most people’s and stayed, in many cases, existence. Outside of fam- about it, and you’ll never see 8, 9, 10, 12 years,” Murphy ily life itself, and mortality, I it on the television set, bedon’t think there’s anything cause it is a benign outcome recounted.

He noted that families more savage to the human of the fiendish oil industry,” that were about to break up personality than someone Murphy pointed out.

“It was one of the great due to the crash stayed to- who wishes to work and has gether. Others that had bro- been working, and works no moments of confederation ken up, came back together more. And then they have to that all people from all over because the pressures of not face the humiliations of ei- Canada were summoned to ther borrowing, begging, or the western provinces. And having a job were gone.

“Those pressures that going on some government people from provinces who come on you when you are program. Most people guard had never intermingled beout of work, when you can’t their dignity by their own fore, were working on the give your daughter the price self-reliance,” he said. “And same project, or allied projof a ticket to a small con- that dignity is a function ects.”

His very closest friend cert, when the father sits at that spreads throughout the got 10 years of work, having home, and feels useless, and entire family.”

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Murphy said we know these things, but we don’t think about it. “A renovation of confederation at the citizen level takes place when a major project invites the brains and the muscle of Canadians together, at a common task, and brings them in contact, with each other, from people from all parts of the country. And they learn, by contact, and common effort, that this is what we share, and that this is what we have in common. And despite what you’ve heard, it is unity first, and it is shared experience, and it is common endeavour, that constitutes the actual cement of a national feeling.”

“I cannot figure out. I do not know what processes are going on, in what strange minds, that has turned almost the entire energy of the country, especially at government level, and especially at various NGOs (non governmental organizations) and self-appointed monitors of the earth’s doom, that has made the oil industry the number one villain of the

entire world.

“You wouldn’t know, but they’re up there manufacturing sarin gas. You had that moronic Neil Young, and surely there are a few strings loose on that guitar; you had him with the audacity, the insult of comparing the working of thousands of men and women, support their families, providing an essential – thee essential – commodity – energy. It is thee essential commodity of 21st century life. Doing it honestly, doing it according to the rules, and doing it in a political environment, compared to any other environment in the world – Nigeria, China, is the acme of responsible management.

“Of all the projects in the world that Neil Young wants to downgrade and call Hiroshima – Hiroshima!

That’s a slander.”

Murphy said for 20 years and more, the oilsands have been called the dirtiest oil on the planet.

“If Fort McMurray goes on, the planet is doomed!” he mockingly proclaimed.

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“And I’ll asked this room silently, when have you heard of an equivalent protest against Venezuelan oil? Chinese coal? Nigerian oil? Why is it that the most impeccable political regime, on earth, mesmerized by the fantastic obsessions of environmentalism, does this so cleanly, and it, and it alone, has been made a campaign target, a symbol. And they have the gall to tell you that if you do this, the world is doomed! We’re in for an eco-apocalypse.

“This is garbage! It is insane garbage. I don’t see Greenpeace romping around Russia. I don’t seem them leaving long drapes over the Chinese wall. I don’t see them scuttling up the legs of rigs in Nigeria, because the pirates would be chomping at their ass from behind,” he said.

We are now living at the very peak of Canada’s development, Murphy explained.

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He questioned the “jihad against pipelines.” Trans Mountain had 17 court cases, “longer than the Spanish Inquisition.”

It doesn’t take eight years to find out if there will be predictable harm of sufficient extent that the project should be denied, he noted.

“Environmental review has become a tool of absolute and deliberate obstruction of every major economic activity, as it relates to most of the energies of the west. This is no longer someone speaking against something. This is a declaration of the fact.”

He asked why the politicians haven’t come here, to the west, to understand what reality is. A prime minister should recognize, he noted, “The dignity of work. The idea of investment. The idea of reliance. The satisfaction that comes from starting business, or conducting business, or hiring for business. This is the nation. I understand that. That’s the key. And I will protect the environment. But by God, I will give the economy, which is the beginning of every

other thing, at least a chance to breath!”

Murphy added, “I think, if the pyramids had a national energy review, they’d still be measuring the stones.”

He questioned if the Canadian Pacific Railway would have been built in today’s political environment.

“The environmentalists have only one word, and it’s the easiest word in any language – it is no! Name one project, one, that has been proposed by a government or responsible business, just one in any province, to which environmental groups – green groups – have said yes. Just one. You can’t. They don’t.

“They are zealously, ideologically, and in my view, obsessively determined to rip the fabric of the natural economy away.”

He said politicians and oil executives are afraid to challenge them, simply on the grounds of worth.

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“No city on this continent could last three days without something close to civil war – that’s not an exaggeration – if the power went,” he said.

Murphy implied that we are essentially spoiled, compared to our forebearers and the rest of the world.

“We are exempted so much from the horrors of so much, of the world, and of history, because we have built a country. And one of the things a successful country does is it ensures first the security of its citizens, and then their potential for living a reasonably full life.

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Anti-pipeline campaign was planned, intended, and foreignfunded: Vivian Krause

By Brian Zinchuk Weyburn – Vivian Krause has spent the better part of a decade, digging into foreign funding backing campaigns to block Canadian salmon farming, and then Canadian oil. She was one of the headline speakers at the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show on June 5.

Krause pointed out Texas’ oil production had more than doubled, and it is now exporting oil to 20 countries, but in Canada, there are protests against further oil and gas development.

“How is it that we got to this place? How is it that pipelines, of all things, are now a major election issue? We’re not talking about fentanyl, or drug prices,” she said. “What are we talking about? Pipelines? They used to be out of sight, out of mind. No one ever had a pub conversation, or dinner conversation, over pipelines. But now we do.

“This didn’t happen for no reason. It was planned. It was the intended outcome of a campaign, a campaign with a name,” Krause said,

explaining she first stumbled on it eight years ago with three little words: “tar sands campaign.”

It started with fish Originally working in the salmon farming industry, Krause first worked on discovering the roots to a campaign to discredit farmed salmon from British Columbia. She soon found commonality with that campaign with the one against the oilsands.

She dug into tax returns of charitable foundations in the United States. She first

The attack on the industry is unjustified, says Murphy ◄ Page A13 are the fundamentals of life.

Don’t be ashamed of the industry. Don’t buy the indictments of its enemies. Don’t be the only country in the world that, for the purchase of some cheap merit badge, from the idiots of the United Nations, shuts down a viable, clean, responsible, but most importantly an essential, an essential, industry.

“People in cities have their virtues. They also have

their blind spots. They do not know where things come from.”

“The attack on the industry is unjustified. The lack of defence, from general leadership, is both pathetic and has to change. Abandon any shadow of mortification or so-called shame that has been blasted into your head, that the oil industry, and associated industries, are somehow Machiavellian and evil. And especially, that the

prophets, the failed prophets of ecodoom – who have predicted more non-fulfilled prophesies in the last 30 years – don’t listen to them.

We should not be governing the state of the Canadian economy and the political wellbeing of all these western provinces, by the jabberings of very disreputable ideological eco-fanatics.”

And finally, he noted, “If you want hospitality, head west.”

found efforts to shift people away from farmed salmon.

Activists were “demarketing” farmed salmon, getting them to buy less, and they were being supported by these foundations. “Demarketing is done by instilling FUD, fear, uncertainty and doubt,” Krause said.

The fight against aquaculture, or farmed fish, was used to prop up the market for commercial fisheries, principally in Alaska, under a banner of sustainability.

These tactics would later be used against Canadian oil.

The organizations she found backing these efforts included the Tides Foundation, based in San Fransisco, and Tides Canada, based in Vancouver.

“It was in the course of this fish farming research that I found in the tax returns of the Tides Foundation an organization called Corporate Ethics got $700,000 one year for something called the tar sands campaign,” Krause said. She noted that the Tides Foundation took money from other donors and passed it along, so she sought out the origins of the money. “I found it, in the tax returns of the Rockefellers Brothers Fund.”

She noted that it was meant to stem demand for Canadian oil, the third time a resource-based industry had been targeted. First it was forestry, then aquaculture, and now oil.

Tar sands campaign From 2007 to 2012, money poured into Corporate Ethics for the the coordination of the tar sands campaign. Then the Rockefellers Fund switched to the New Venture Fund, based in Washington, D.C. “The interesting thing is the purpose for which the money was being provided.

The grants database said the money was specifically to cap tar sands production in Al-

berta,” she said. And in 2015, the then-new NDP government in Alberta did exactly that.

The money kept coming for the tar sands campaign.

Another area of concern was a new park along the B.C. coast to protect the “Great Bear,” and became known as the “Great Bear Rainforest.”

She pointed to payments that had been made to Indigenous groups in opposition to pipelines. Others organized students and youth. For a while, much of the money went to opposition in the United States to the Keystone XL pipeline. ► Page A15

Krause making documentary film Vivian Krause said she is making a documentary film “to get everybody up to speed.”

She had launched a $160,000 GoFundMe campaign on June 3 to back it. By June 24, it had raised $145,150 towards that goal, with 1,053 backers. The aim was to reach $160,000 by June 30, and ongoing progress throughout the month put it on track to coming close to, if not surpassing, that goal.

“We are hoping to get the film out this summer, well ahead of this fall. We need everyone to know what is going on,” Krause said.

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Tar sands campaign found all over, Krause explains ◄ Page A14 “Over the years, I’ve traced the funding of all these reports, all these stunts and celebrity appearances and many more, all these protests.

Every single one of them is funded as part of the same campaign. I can’t find one single organization that’s not funded as part of the same campaign,” she said.

The CBC did a story on her efforts earlier this year. In that story, the Corporate Ethics webpage was highlighted, noting from the very beginning, the campaign strategy was to “to landlock the oilsands so the crude could not reach international markets.”

Days after that story aired, that verbiage was removed from the website or rewritten to talk about “educating voters.”

It took credit for delaying the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL projects.

She added that 11 years ago, even the Mackenzie Valley pipeline was targeted.

“If we don’t respond differently to the activists against the current pipeline projects, that is, Line 3, Trans Mountain, Keystone, expect the same fate that happened against the Mackenzie Valley pipeline. It’s the same cam-

paigners, the same money, the same funders. It stands to reason the results are going to be the same, unless there is a different response,” Krause said.

Living Oceans was another organization involved, and it was a key participant in the court challenge which stymied the Trans Mountain Expansion project last summer. She noted that $63,576 was spent in one year on the application to the Federal Court of Appeal. She said, “What this means is that that court ruling was brought about as part of a campaign to landlock Canadian crude, and keep Canada out of the oil market. Now, I’m not saying the judge was influenced by the money. I am saying that the application, the legal work that brought that application to the court, was partially funded as part of this campaign.”

Three organizations got $700,000 from the Tides Foundation, she said. The leading applicant of the court challenge was funded specifically to oppose and stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline project.

“What this means is that when the judge ruled that government needed to consult, and meaningfully,

Vivian Krause was one of the headline speakers at the oil show. with the First Nation, what she was telling the government was that it was needing to consult with the very same First Nation that was getting funded to shut down the project. Of course, in the ruling, none of this was mentioned.”

Krause said she didn’t come across this until after the ruling came about.

“I can go through every single court ruling that has slowed down or stopped all the pipeline projects, and there isn’t one single court ruling that has been brought

about, that has not been funded. Every single court action slowing down these pipeline projects is part of this campaign,” she said.

A small amount of money has been spent on door-to-door campaigns during elections, she asserted. Other money was spent to set up “fake grassroots campaigns” run from a private company run out of a treehouse office on Salt Spring Island, B.C. The funding foundations, she said, are all members of an umbrella group

called the “Consultative Group on Biological Diversity,” created in the late 1980s by the U.S. government, which still provides a very small amount of funding.

Large scale initiatives vary from protecting bears to another which includes two-thirds of Canada, half of which they want no “extractive industries,” no logging, roads, mining, hydro, oil or gas. Protecting large tracts of land, from the beginning, was about protecting the habitat of iconic species like

caribue and grizzly. It was also about restricting oil and gas development in Canada, Krause said.

In the U.S., the initiative only affects states that don’t produce 95 per cent of America’s oil.

Great Bear Rainforest Coming back to the Great Bear Rainforest, Krause said that was the basic premise of Bill C-48, the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, which passed into law a few weeks after the presentation.

She noted there are about 100 blonde-coloured black bears, the Kermode Bear, in a small area. They are of spiritual significance to some First Nations people. The original idea was to protect those bears. But the area was expanded, from the northern tip of Vancouver Island, to Alaska.

(The British Columbia website for the Great Bear Rainforest notes it is the size of Ireland).

“Now we have this huge area that’s called the Great Bear Rainforest, but in most of it, there are no Great Bears,” Krause said. “Now we’re told we can’t have any tankers there. The bears don’t like it.”

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Great Bear Rainforest is the size of Ireland, to protect 100 bears ◄ Page A15 idea, a protection of the habitat of a special bear, that idea has morphed and become a great trade barrier. Something is being protected here, and it’s not the bear.

It doesn’t even live in most of the area. What is being protected is the American monopoly on our oil, that is keeping our country over a barrel. That is what is being passionately protected,” she said to applause.

She noted that of the Moore Foundation (Gordon Moore co-founded Intel) has put $267 million into organizations operating in Canada, of which 90 per cent was for activism. Tides Canada got $83 million, and First Nations groups got a combined total of $58 million.

She noted the Moore Foundation’s $267 million, $115 million went to developing four marine plans for the West Coast of British Columbia, which want no pipelines, no tankers, and no trade infrastructure for exporting energy products off the northern B.C. coast, in the name of protecting the

Great Bear.

OPEN and SAFE “What concerns me most is that this campaign hasn’t kept one barrel of oil in the ground,” Krause said.

That oil is simply being produced by other countries.

She said the Online Progressive Engagement Network (OPEN), based in California, said they ended 2015 by moving the needle in the Canadian federal election and contributed greatly to the ousting of the Conservative Party of Canada as government. It is the parent organization of Leadnow, which was active in that election. She provided information about this to Elections Canada, but got nowhere.

All the various components of the anti-pipeline

campaign trace back to 2003-04, not long after the beginning of the Iraq War and the California energy crisis Krause said. “These two events are really what triggered this group of California philanthropists to say, ‘Hey, we’ve got to get control of our global energy supply, our policy.’”

One of the organizations established at the time is Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE), which was funded by some of the same foundations who funded the tar sands campaign. It is to protect American businesses from high and volatile oil prices.

In 2004, the Packard Foundation made a $15 million payment to start the Great Bear Rainforest. An-

other payment for $12 million were made to start the Canadian Boreal Initiative.

“As I was studying the history of this, it was very clear to me that the same charitable foundations who wanted to get the West off Mideast oil. It was geopolitics, and it’s very clear in their explaining this,” she said. But she couldn’t explain the campaign against the Keystone XL pipeline.

But the 2013 strategy paper she found made it clear to her that not only did they want to get the West off Mideast oil, “They also wanted to discourage investment in Canada. And if you think about it, 10 years ago, we were the best place to invest.

The goal was to turn us from the best to the worst. That

wouldn’t have happened if Keystone had gone ahead.

Part of the strategy was to make investors nervous.”

Harper-era Canadian Revenue Agency audits into related charities found 41 of 42 in non-compliance, and many got funding they weren’t supposed to get. “All these charity audits were put on hold in 2015,” she said. The law has since been changed and charities are now unlimited in this regard.

In summary, she said there were four motivations of the American funders.

“They want more renewable energy. They want more energy efficiency, and they want more energy security. All of that is good stuff.

“But then they have this fourth objective, and that is

to landlock our country and keep Canada out of world oil markets. And that’s where I think we have to say no. Because we all want to make the very best use of every barrel of oil that we need to burn. But as we go on this green transition, no country, least of all Canada, should be benched out of the oil market.”

She said she was encouraged by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, saying, “Finally, we have Canadian politicians with the courage to take on the Rockefellers. So I think we need to make sure we continue to support them, let them know they’re not alone in this fight.

This is no small ordeal. It’s a huge, daunting challenge.”

Kenney and Moe support national energy corridor

KENNEY KEEPING AN OPEN MIND ON CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE

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Moe wants conversation on national energy corridor ◄ Page A16 capture and storage) to revive that coal industry, and are you going to use it for enhanced oil recovery?

Jason Kenney: The answer is we will be repealing the NDP legislation that prematurely shut down our coal industry. Our focus will be on reliable and affordable energy that helps us to grow the economy, create jobs and diversify the economy.

Affordable power prices are a key part of that recipe.

Now, having said that, the federal government has imposed its own timelines for shutting down coal plants. Should this federal government get re-elected, that will be a very serious legal challenge.

Secondly, a lot of the coal-fired power producers in Alberta took compensation from the previous government in order to shut down their plants or convert them to natural gas co-gen. In the long run, I think that’s a good thing.

But we will not be mandating, under Alberta law, that they do so by 2030. Now, I am open to the carbon capture and storage technology.

The challenge is the cost has still proven to be very high.

But I understand there’s also been some hopeful

improvements in the technology. So I’m looking forward into getting technical advice, whether CCS can be part of our climate leadership strategy. We will be imposing a levy on major industrial emissions, and releasing a number of other measures this fall, and we are keeping an open mind on whether CCS will be a part of that.

Pipeline News: Both of you have referenced the national energy corridor that’s been gaining a lot of traction recently. The obvious site would be the TransCanada right-of-way for Energy East. It’s been studied to death already.

What sort of timeline would you like to see for a national energy corridor?

Okay, take what TransCanada’s done, the assessment’s already been done, or are you going to spend another five years assessing another right-of-way?

Scott Moe: I think the first conversation we actually need to have, probably at the premiers’ level as we enter this spring and summer, is the conversation around actually having a nation-building, national energy corridor, here in this nation, so we’re actually able to achieve the value of the

products we are producing; not just in Western Canada, but in other areas of the nation. As I’ve said, we have Manitoba and Quebec that have landlocked electricity, some of the cleanest electricity available. We have some of the most sustainable energy products, here, in Western Canada, that are being really put on the rails, constraining the capacity we have to export from our two provinces, and others, Manitoba and Ontario, some of the most sustainable agrifood products in the world.

This is really a doing of our own making, in this nation, if you will. We need a much more mature discussion about how do we get these products, these very, very sustainable products to markets around the world.

That is fully the conversation we need to have before we start talking about where is the route, and how that is going to work. We need this nation-building project to move forward.

Kenney: Absolutely.

And I want to thank Scott for his leadership on this.

He has put the idea of resource corridors on the national agenda of the Council of the Federation this summer. I’m going to be

down in Quebec, talking to Premier (François) Legault, as well as Atlantic premiers about this next week.

I think this is picking up momentum. Just this week, the leader of the federal of opposition, Mr. Scheer, gave a major speech, supporting the concept of a resources corridor. So we see more and more governments and parties coming onside. I hope that at your COF meeting in Saskatoon, we can move the ball forward.

Moe: Absolutely.

Jason Kenney, left, thinks a national energy corridor is picking up momentum.

Hartley T. Richardson speaks about 2016 pipeline acquisition and current name change

By Brian Zinchuk Estevan – In 2016, the Richardson family made the big bet of buying the Enbridge Pipelines (Saskatchewan) Inc. system for $1.075 billion. Asked

by Pipeline News on June 17 if it has turned out as they expected, Hartley T. Richardson, president and CEO of parent company James Richardson & Sons, Ltd., said, “It took a lot of people by surprise.

“I would say it has,

now. We had to get a better understanding of the business, which had grown exponentially with that acquisition. But we’re very pleased with it. It’s worked out very well and we see a great future. We’re excited to further develop the company under this new identity,” he said.

“It was a decision made, because without doing it, our growth was restricted to Manitoba.

We needed to expand into

southeastern Saskatchewan, and this was the most effective way to do that. It took a number of years of discussion with Enbridge to convince them to sell the asset.

“This is what we do, in this company. It’s all that we do, and I think we do it very well.”

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“We see this as a long-term growth opportunity”

Hartley T. Richardson spoke about how the new name was chosen for TEML. Photo by Brian Zinchuk

◄ Page A17 wholly-owned subsidiary of family-owned James Richardson & Sons, Ltd. Asked if a new name is indicative of new growth on the horizon, Richardson said, “We encourage all of our operating companies to bring forward new opportunities for growth, and Jim is no different. When we make the commitments, we make them for the long term. For 162 years in business, we see this as a long-term growth opportunity, and an important part of the industry that’s integral to this country. We’re going to service

our customers as best as we can.”

He referred to Jim Hand, Kingston Midstream’s president and CEO. The Richardson Foundation recently held a press conference in Winnipeg to announce a million-dollar contribution to STARS air ambulance over four years. Hand noted this will see the new Kingston Midstream logo emblazoned on the helicopters, along with other donors’ logos.

“From the family’s standpoint, I think I can speak for the family, we’re very excited about this name change. It very signifi-

cantly connects our family and our past with growth potential and entrepreneurialism that is prevalent in this organization. I think it’s a great marriage of the past and the future and we’re very excited by it.”

He noted James Richardson’s quote which still rings true today “Our goal is to be the kind of business organization in which people can place their trust.”

Hand added, “We wouldn’t be where we are today without our employees, service providers, customers, and other stakeholders. We owe them all a debt of gratitude.”

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That message? Not all of Quebec is against oil and gas.

Asked about Quebec’s premier saying there is no taste for Alberta’s “dirty oil” in Quebec, Deltell said, “There is a difference between people. There is a difference of opinion. You know that in Quebec, we have 2,000 kilometres of pipeline.

There are nine pipelines under the St. Lawrence River. We just built a new pipeline in 2012 between

Lévis and Montreal, 228 kilometres in the place that is the populated area, and we did it well.

“So yes, there is a possibility for us to do things correctly, and we intend to do that with a corridor of energy.”

Deltell is an advocate for a national energy corridor, a concept of having a common, pre-approved right-of-way for pipelines

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Deltell said, “Since May 16, when Andrew Scheer, leader of the Conservative Party, tabled that project saying a Conservative government will work hard to have a corridor of energy, there is a lot of enthusiasm about that.

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No apportionment here: TEML, now Kingston Midstream, has room on its pipeline

By Brian Zinchuk Weyburn – At the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show, Tundra Energy Marketing Ltd. (TEML) staff were handing out chocolate bars implying a rebranding of their company would be coming soon.

That came two weeks later, on June 17, when the company was renamed Kingston Midstream.

The company has made it a practice of having their president and CEO attend the oil show in recent years, and this year was no different. Jim Hand, who recently took over the reigns of the top job, spoke to Pipeline News on June 5. He was joined by Peter Forrester, vice-president, commercial, corporate and regulatory.

Pipelines and wires ◄ Page A18 We will take the energy from the east to the west, and the west to the east.

This will be good for the country.

“And we need to have a corridor where we will put everything on – electricity, pipelines, everything. When we transfer our energy, this is one-shot deal. One place, one agreement to everybody, and it will be a win-win from east, from west, from centre, from each and every Canadian,” Deltell said.

Regarding the defunct Energy East project, he said, “As you know, Energy East is dead. The project is not anymore there. But what we think is the corridor of energy is the future of that, because there will be a place to ship petroleum everywhere in the country, from west to east, but also, we can send electricity from east to west, and this is a real

Quebec MP Gerard Deltell spoke at the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show. win-win situation, and making First Nations a partner in prosperity.”

Hand said it was a fantastic show. “To get two premiers, to talk over lunch, who are that supportive, of our industry?

Frankly, it energizes me,” he said.

“For me, this is my first time at the show. Kevin Armstrong (vice-president, operations) has been showing me around, introducing me to a lot of folks, because I’ve only been with TEML for a little over half a year now. This was really my first opportunity to meet a lot of our suppliers and some of our customers.”

“It’s going great,” Hand said, when asked how things are going.

He noted they’ve made some changes, with Armstrong now as vice president of operations in Estevan. “He knows everyone, and has been around for decades.”

“We’re finishing some of the integration with some of the Enbridge folks with some of the Tundra folks, and getting our team where we want it, to position us for future success.”

“We’re adding some positions, like our supply chain and HSE, trying to

From left, Darren Istace, Rebecca Cassidy, Brandy East, Jim Hand and Peter Forrester held up chocolate bars, indicating TEML would soon be rebranded. Hand, president and CEO of TEML, now Kingston Midstream, spoke to Pipeline News at the Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show on June 5. Photo by Brian Zinchuk centralize those to basically manage our business and leverage it across shared services. But for the most part, people in the Estevan area are still in the Estevan area.”

The national discourse has often referred to a shortage of pipeline capacity. But in southeast Saskatchewan, where currently all oil is shipped on the now-Kingston Midstream system and none is going by rail, there is no shortage.

“That’s right,” Hand said. “If you’re downstream of Kerrobert, you’re not typically getting apportioned on the Enbridge Mainline.”

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Apportionment is the practice of pipeline companies limiting how much can be shipped on their system, as the demand outstrips the shipping capacity. The Kingston Midstream system ties into the Enbridge Mainiline at Cromer, Man. “Most of the bottleneck is upstream of us, which is a big advantage to the producers of southeast Saskatchewan and south-

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Coastal export pipelines benefit producers, which then benefits local pipeline company ◄ Page A19 “We have room on our Westspur pipeline, and the Enbridge Mainline has room from Cromer, downstream. So we’re encouraging producers to drill more wells and bring on more production, and we need to help connect them to the system.”

Forrester said, “Just recognize, from a commercial perspective for producers in Saskatchewan, it’s not pipeline capacity on TEML which is an issue, it’s the takeaway capacity from Canada which is depressing prices. So every single day we don’t have pipeline capacity to international markets, we’re discounting our crude, in Saskatchewan and everywhere across Canada.”

Saskatchewan discounts are not as bad as what the oilsands have seen, according to Hand.

“Not like the oilsands discount. WCS, Western Canadian Select, sees a heavy discount, whereas the LSB crude that’s mostly from our area sees less. It’s still below WTI (West Texas Intermediate), though.

In late 2018, TEML settled a dispute over blending with several of its customers. That dispute, which had gone to the National Energy Board, is now behind them.

“It’s a lot better to be working together, collaboratively, than fighting. No one wins, except the lawyers,” Hand said.

He said they’ve had great conversations with

CEOs, including Crescent Point’s, Craig Bryska. “I want to focus on the future and how we can help customers grow their business,” Hand said.

The company has a rail loading facility at Cromer, Man. Despite growth in crude-by-rail usage in other parts of Canada, it hasn’t seen any action. “It’s currently been mothballed, but we’re looking at opportunities of how we can use it,” he said.

If the Energy East pipeline project had gone ahead, with it’s planned Cromer Lateral, TEML would have been in a position to offer southeast Saskatchewan and southwest Manitoba producers the ability to greatly broaden their potential clients. They

could ship not only on the Enbridge Mainline to the American Midwest, but on Energy East to Quebec, New Brunswick and overseas via tanker. The rail facility at Cromer offers the rail option for any other facility on the North American rail system.

“That’s our job, to give the producer any option they want to choose.”

While Energy East is currently dead, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney were both talking about a national energy corridor while at the oil show. This would essentially be something similar in concept to Energy East.

Asked about a national energy corridor, if it were to go ahead, Hand said,

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“Absolutely, we want to do whatever we can to help our customers increase their production and put it into whatever option that makes the most sense to them. The Enbridge Mainline will still be a key part of the system that we put barrels into. But, obviously, any other options that go by our infrastructure would be welcome, because you always want to provide your customers with options.

“Everything comes down to economics and what makes the most sense.

I couldn’t say for certain we would participate. But any pipelines, multiple pipelines, that get crude out of Canada, and get it to tidewater, is a good thing. Any pipeline, like Energy East, which actually replaces foreign oil, with Canadian oil, is a great thing.”

On the Trans Mountain Expansion project, which at that point was still awaiting federal approval (granted June 18), Hand said, “I’m very hopeful it gets approved and moves ahead, absolutely.”

Enbridge noted in an email on June 26, "The space on the Enbridge Mainline system past Cromer varies and is dependent on pricing and market dynamics."

Forrester added, “Trans Mountain is an important part. It gives us the ability to get the to the West Coast, which is an important part of the energy strategy. It gives us

another outlet, and allows us to get the right pricing for our pipelines, and for our oil.”

The argument for Trans Mountain is that by being able to sell oil at Brent prices in the global market, it would lift prices on the continent. Asked how it would impact TEML, Hand said, “It impacts us by providing better economics to the producer who is then going to drill more wells, bring more production onto our system. So we benefit, because our producers benefit.”

Asked about a concern expressed by some small junior producers in the region about the need for TEML to build more pipe in the region’s gathering system to connect to their batteries, as opposed to using truck terminals, Hand said, “It’s economics, right? You have to look at how much volume, the length of the pipe, how many other producers that can be tied into the pipe, to make the best decision for our shareholders as well.

But we’re constantly in discussions with our producers in how we can get them connected. Longer term, it’s better economics for them, which means hopefully better economics for us.”

“I’ve really enjoyed my time here. It’s only been half a year for me, but I’m looking forward to getting to know the people in southeast Saskatchewan,” Hand concluded.

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TEML is now Kingston Midstream

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By Brian Zinchuk Estevan – Reaching back 162 years to the founding of the Richardson family business, the owners of Tundra Energy Marketing Limited, or TEML, have given it a new name – Kingston Midstream.

Hartley T. Richardson, president and CEO of parent company James Richardson & Sons, Limited, was on hand at Southeast College in Estevan on Monday to reveal the new name and logo to the company’s staff. He explained that his great-great-grandfather, James Richardson, had started out his grain trading business in Kingston, Ontario. Thus, that was where the new name was drawn from.

“The name Kingston Midstream is a reference to the roots of James Richardson & Sons, Limited 162 years ago, which started as a small grain merchandising operation in Kingston, Ontario,” said Hartley Richardson. “Kingston is a name that serves as a reminder of the values and ambitions we

continue to hold as an organization and a reflection of our long history of safely moving Canada’s most precious resources.”

That afternoon, the sign in front of the company’s building on Estevan’s Kensington Avenue also changed to reflect the new name.

Jim Hand, president and CEO of TEML, now Kingston Midstream, gave two reasons behind the rebranding. One was the merging of the two companies three years ago – Tundra Energy Marketing Limited, and Enbridge Pipelines (Saskatchewan) Inc. The other reason was to differentiate this company from its original roots.

TEML had spun off from Tundra Oil and Gas, the Richardson family-owned oil and gas company which is, by far, Manitoba’s largest producer.

“In 2011, TEML was founded as an independent subsidiary of James Richardson & Sons, Limited’s oil and gas exploration and production division,” said Hand. “As

the company has grown significantly and now services a broader customer base; we believe the time is right for an evolution of its brand identity.”

The name change has been a long time coming, as Hand noted that when he became CEO seven months ago, one of the first questions he was asked by the staff was what the new name would be. It had been kept under wraps for a long time prior to that, and was under wraps, literally, on Monday, when Richardson lifted a sheet off the sign showing the new name.

While at the opening, Richardson took the time to sit with several tables of staff members, speaking to them directly after the ceremony had concluded.

The company will be adopting the new name immediately, and staff were handed out hats and the like to get the word out. Several members of the TEML executive attended the Estevan fair later that day.

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Positive trend leads to first new unit in a while for Streamline Oilfield Services

Weyburn – Streamline Oilfield Services of Weyburn is seeing a positive trend, such that the fluid hauling trucking firm recently picked up a new unit.

“We’re still trying to battle through. Things are trending in the right direction,” said Dustin Stokes, operations manager, on May 14.

Stokes said they are “cautiously optimistic.”

“I think it’ll be like that for quite a while,” he said.

Streamline operates about 50 trucks, of which 35 are company trucks, and the remainder are leased operators.

“We do quite a bit near Torquay, Oungre, Oxbow, Frobisher, Steelman and North Portal,” he said, when asked where their operations area is.

Streamline employs about 70 people. That includes 45 to 50 drivers, 10 in the shop, two dispatchers, three managers, two owners and three office staff. Stokes, himself, used to run the shop before moving into the operations manager position earlier this year. He’s been with the company since almost

the beginning, seven years ago. “The owners are here, every day, working,” Stokes said of the two partners, Jason Peterson and Kelly Brady.

“We didn’t seem to lose a whole lot of work,” he said, when asked about the downturn. They did pick up some in-field work.

“It’s going to take a good two years to get back one bad year,” he said. “We did take pay cuts, from the top to the bottom. That was one way we could deal with it.”

They did lose some staff when the rates went down, however. Some got out of the patch, knowing it would be a while before things came back.

“Some when on their own. As work picked up, leased operators came back,” he said.

“We do have some optimism.

“The summer is looking promising. We are trying to grow. We’re not flat.

We’re slowly trending upwards.”

That includes slowly increasing manpower and equipment if needed.

Streamline recently bought a new truck. They sold four older trucks and

bought a trailer, phasing out some older equipment in the fleet.

Stokes doesn’t expect they’ll be picking up any more truck soon, though.

“I think we’ll need to see more growth before we invest that way,” he said, noting they have a few company trucks without drivers.

He noted, “We’re sort of in the driver’s seat to hire the right people.”

And even with the slowdown that has taken place, Stokes pointed out, “There’s still lots of work to be done.”

In a broader context, he explained that cost tends to be more at the forefront in consideration, in being more efficient with people and equipment, than it had been during the boom.

“Our focus for 2019 and on is to create a safe, efficient, responsible culture for our team members that will become the focal

point of how we service our customers,” Stokes said.

Regina rally When the oilpatch gathered in the Regina Rally Against the Carbon Tax on April 4, Streamline was there. “We sent four units total,” said Stokes, who said they were there to show support.

“It’s a big part of our industry,” he said. “Everything from the pipelines to the increasing costs of fuel.”

To that end, the carbon tax is expected to have a bite. “We expect an effect of $60,000 to $70,000 a year due to the carbon tax, and that’s just the beginning.”

As other companies have told Pipeline News, the oil companies aren’t willing to accept the carbon tax as an additional expense line item. As such, they’re going to have to eat it.

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