The SmartGrid is here to redefine how we generate, deliver, and pay for electricity—and that will be a big opportunity for energy investors in 2016.
The SmartGrid will help utilities reduce demand among their customer base during the very expensive peak periods, and cost-effectively increase their use of renewable energy.
The...
The Canadian dollar has dropped 25% against the US dollar in the last 18 months, going from 94 cents to 71 cents. That's horrible news for Canadian drivers, as the lower loonie (as Canada's dollar is affectionately nicknamed) has almost completely eliminated any savings at the pump, while oil...
Trading mistakes. Looking back on 2015, I made the same ones! (Visual—bang head against wall repeatedly). I’m going to tell you what I did wrong and what I did right in 2015, and where I see The Big Money being made in energy in 2016.
The key to investing of...
Tanker stocks around the globe were crushed on Thursday as the TeeKay group--with six US listed equities and bonds--reduced their dividend to shore up their balance sheet.
That was my oppotunity--and for OGIB subscribers. I've been following another tanker group--Golar (GLNG-NASD) and Golar Partners (GMLP-NASD) for years. I knew the companies, I had...
Here is an energy issue I thought would have been resolved years ago--but it's going to court this week in Alberta. The central question is simple--what takes priority if a producer goes bankrupt--environmental liabilities to plug & abandon (P&A) wells, or creditors.
What's happening is that the Alberta Energy Regulator...
Pipeline behemoth Kinder Morgan (KMI-NYSE) cut its dividend last night by 75%--ending a three year string of getting their money for nothing and your dividends for free (with apologies to the band Dire Straits).
This issue is causing investors to give all North American pipeline stocks a higher discount rate--and...
Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus. Private equity fund Edge Natural Resources LLC is taking Canamax Energy private--at 67 cents, or a hair shy of a double over Thursday’s share price.
It has been my largest position for a junior for two years, and gives me--and the subscribers who bought it...
Canadian LNG–Liquefied Natural Gas–exports aren’t getting a lot of respect these days, partly due to low LNG prices, and partly because of the high profile environmental opposition to Petronas’ proposed terminal location at Lelu Island near Prince Rupert.
But behind the headlines, LNG Canada, a joint venture led by Shell...
