Encana Corp., Nexen Inc., Devon Energy Corp., Cenovus Energy Inc., Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. are among the major companies reaching out to Asia for arrangements – from joint ventures, to outright sales. Claudia Cattaneo May 6, 2011 – 6:38 PM ET Remember when Chinese energy giants were knocking on Alberta’s doors, looking for any million [...]
Yedlin: Reliance on oil, gas ‘not sustainable’
Friday, May 6th, 2011By: Deborah Yedlin It is perhaps more than fitting the report by the Premier’s Council for Economic Strategy was released on Thursday morning. The report was unveiled in Edmonton by Premier Ed Stelmach and the chair of the council, David Emerson. Most will recall the council was established in 2009 by Stelmach to look at [...]
Shaping Alberta’s Future
Friday, May 6th, 2011What must Albertans begin to do now to sustain prosperity through the next three decades and beyond? How can we ensure our children and grandchildren enjoy even greater opportunity than we have – that we hand future generations a legacy of “a better Alberta”? What will it take to make the Alberta of 2040 the place for [...]
Order Is Great. It’s Bureaucracy That’s Stifling
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011By: ADAM BRYANT This interview with Lars Bjork, C.E.O. of QlikTech, a data software company, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. Do you remember the first time you were somebody’s boss or manager? A. It was in 1984. I had the opportunity to work in construction in New York, coming right out of [...]
The Management Myth
Friday, April 22nd, 2011By Matthew Stewart During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions. Those who saw through my disguise assumed I made up for my youth with a fabulous [...]
Trying to pull together
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011By: The Economy ZHU LIANGXIU gulps down Kenyan lager in a bar in Nairobi and recites a Chinese aphorism: “One cannot step into the same river twice.” Mr Zhu, a shoemaker from Foshan, near Hong Kong, is on his second trip to Africa. Though he says he has come to love the place, you can [...]
Regulation of Offshore Rigs Is a Work in Progress
Saturday, April 16th, 2011By: John M. Broder and Clifford Krauss WASHINGTON — A year after BP’s Macondo well blew out, killing 11 men and spewing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the much-maligned federal agency responsible for policing offshore drilling has been remade, with a tough new director, an awkward new name and a sheaf of stricter [...]
The Psychology of Cheating
Saturday, April 16th, 2011By: Benedict Carey, The New York Times To some it was a fitting end to a pointless witch hunt. On Wednesday, after weeks of graphic testimony about steroid use, a jury in San Francisco cleared the former baseball slugger Barry Bonds of all charges but one, obstruction of justice. And even that might not hold up. [...]
Report of the Dialogues on the Oil Sands: Engaging Canadians and Americans (April 14, 2011)
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