Photo credit: Flickr/shannonpatrick17. The most divisive pipeline project in North American history looks to have lost a key advocate. Harold Hamm, CEO...
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September 9 - News - Comments
There was more bad news for TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)’s troubled Keystone XL pipeline last week. The fate of the project is likely...
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September 3 - News - Comments
Five years ago this month, we had just bounced off an all-time high crude price near $150 per barrel, and we were concerned about the long-term availability...
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August 27 - News - Comments
The Oracle of Omaha is looking north of the border for investment opportunities. Last week, Warren Buffett revealed through a regulatory filing that...
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August 23 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Canada’s oil sector is not the beacon of hope it once was. Canada’s problem is not a lack of oil, but a lack of an effective way to bring...
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August 21 - News - Comments
Some say it’s impossible; others say it’s inevitable. But like it or not, the development of new technology has us thinking about the possibility...
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August 10 - News - Comments
The debate surrounding TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)’s Keystone XL pipeline has been one of the fact-free varieties. Both sides –...
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August 8 - News - Comments
Just as we examine companies each week that may be rising past their fair value, we can also find companies potentially trading at bargain prices. While...
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August 7 - News - Comments
President Obama’s critical comments of TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)’s Keystone XL pipeline suggest the chances of the projects...
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August 3 - News - Comments
Second-quarter midstream earnings have finally started to trickle in, as energy giants Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE:KMP) and TransCanada Corporation...
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July 29 - News - Comments
A lot of people don’t look favorably on crude oil produced in Alberta’s oil sands. In addition to the fact that oil sands production spews...
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July 29 - News - Comments
Can North America really become energy independent? Based on the media consensus, energy self sufficiency is right around the corner. A report by Citigroup...
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July 25 - News - Comments
The early July explosion of train cars carrying crude oil in Canada quickly turned into a disaster. It also exposed the risks of the increasing use of...
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July 24 - News - Comments
Will TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)’s Keystone XL pipeline increase the price you pay at the pump? One study says it will. According to...
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July 24 - News - Comments
Recently it was reported by the Energy Information Administration, or EIA, that the US’ recoverable amount of oil and gas reserves is 35% greater...
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July 22 - News - Comments
Recently, a Canadian train carrying oil crashed in a small town and killed 50 people. This shouldn’t be a great surprise, as more oil is being transported...
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July 22 - News - Comments
Investors can prime their portfolio for success by building on a collection of core growth stocks. These are wonderful businesses with both a sustainable...
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July 22 - News - Comments
Oil production in the U.S. has zoomed higher over the past couple of years and is now at the highest level in about two decades. That has created quite...
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July 18 - News - Comments
By now, you have probably heard about TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)‘s Keystone XL pipeline. For even the most casual observer of the...
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July 15 - News - Comments
This weekend’s horrific railcar explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, has drawn sudden attention to the rapidly expanding use of railcars to transport...
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July 15 - News - Comments
Sure transportation and storage doesn’t sound as sexy as exploring, extracting and refining oil and gas, but it can still make investors money....
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July 10 - News - Comments
The derailment of a train carrying crude oil and its subsequent explosion in Quebec should act as an eye-opener to the opponents of pipeline transportation...
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July 9 - News - Comments
By now, you’ve probably heard about TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)’s Keystone XL pipeline. For even the most casual observer of...
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July 8 - News - Comments
Will TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)’s Keystone XL pipeline save the oil sands? Probably not. Even if the U.S. State Department approves...
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July 5 - News - Comments
A trailblazing North American energy transportation and distribution company, Enbridge Inc (NYSE:ENB) , has been trounced year to date, declining 4.99...
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July 5 - News - Comments
By now, you have probably heard about TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)‘s Keystone XL pipeline. For even the most casual observer of the...
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July 5 - News - Comments
By now, you have probably heard about TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)‘s Keystone XL pipeline. For even the most casual observer of the...
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July 3 - News - Comments
When you’re trying to assess a company’s growth potential, a great place to look for clues is in its Dividend Payout Ratio, or DPR, which is the...
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July 3 - News - Comments
By now, you’ve probably heard about TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)‘s Keystone XL pipeline. For even the most casual observer of...
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July 1 - News - Comments
President Obama’s climate change address at Georgetown University has been hailed as among his best by environmental activists. However, the president...
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June 28 - News - Comments
By now, you have probably heard about TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)‘s Keystone XL pipeline. For even the most casual observer of the...
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June 28 - News - Comments
By now you know about President Obama’s “climate action plan,” which was unveiled on a hot Tuesday afternoon at Washington, D.C.’...
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June 28 - News - Comments
Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE:MMP), the Tulsa-based midstream company, recently said that it is “very close” to completing the construction...
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June 27 - News - Comments
Less than a month after the British Columbia government rejected an Enbridge Inc (USA) (NYSE:ENB) pipeline proposal, TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE...
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June 27 - News - Comments
Calgary’s downtown core has gone dark. Canada’s energy capital is under a blackout after devastating floods made a ghost town out of the city...
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June 27 - News - Comments
Today, the Keystone XL Pipeline is the million dollar question. Without getting into the politics surrounding it, let’s examine what approval of...
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June 26 - News - Comments
On Friday, a consortium of companies including Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP), BP plc (ADR) (NYSE:BP), and TransCanada...
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June 26 - News - Comments
As if having a proposed pipeline rejected by the British Columbian government wasn’t enough, Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE:EEP) now faces...
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June 25 - News - Comments
Canada’s oil industry is like Bizarro Superman. For those of you who aren’t comic book nerds or are not die-hard fans of Seinfeld, Bizarro...
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June 19 - News - Comments
Where will Canada’s crude go? Efforts to build new pipelines are being blocked to the south and the west, so now TransCanada Corporation (USA) (...
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June 18 - News - Comments
“Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! The Keystone pipeline got’s to go!” That was a protest chant from a march outside Washington D.C. where environmentalists...
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June 17 - News - Comments
In the race to move Canadian crude, pipelines are losing. Pipelines, built by companies such as TransCanada Corporation (NYSE:TRP) and Enbridge Inc (NYSE...
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June 14 - News - Comments
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE:KMP) is the largest U.S. pipeline company and, in its latest quarter, saw net income increase three times to $783...
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June 13 - News - Comments
Alberta’s oil sands, which contain vast deposits of bituminous crude oil, have attracted dozens of energy producers from around the world in search...
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June 12 - News - Comments
Four North American railroads are seeing explosive growth in shipments of crude due to a lack of pipeline capacity in the United States and Canada. But...
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June 4 - News - Comments
It is conceivable that Americans and Canadians alike are more aware of oil pipelines now than ever before in our collective histories. Both countries...
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June 4 - News - Comments
Canadian oil-sands producers may want to sing “I Want to Be Free” right about now. Between the European Union’s proposal of a penalty...
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June 3 - News - Comments
The boom in Alberta’s oil sands was initially hailed as a hugely promising development for Canada’s economy and energy security. Recently,...
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May 31 - News - Comments
On May 22, the House of Representatives approved a bill declaring that a presidential permit was not needed to approve the Canada-to-Nebraska leg of the...
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May 30 - News - Comments
When TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP) first announced its plan to construct the Keystone XL pipeline, I’m sure company executives never...
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May 29 - News - Comments
