National debates are for everyone
A recent study lays the blame for the lack of success of shale gas in Quebec at industry’s home page. A Canadian Press article more or less agrees. While the study makes many good points it completely misses this one: it avoided mentioning that others avoided getting involved and informing the public on what was […]
Orwell’s Animal Farm in the St Lawrence
“All contracts are legal but some contracts are more legal than others”. After ten years of industry exploration and hundreds of millions of dollars of investment the Government is for a third time changing the rules of the game and ripping up their written contractual promises. Legislation is to be presented by Quebec’s minority Government […]
Why no video?
You may have heard about Petrolia having troubles drilling their well in the Gaspe due to special new rules made by the municipality. It shouldn’t be a surprise that a municipality decided to make its own rules. The Government of Quebec won’t tell anyone how it works or what the benefits are. It’s like a […]
How did this happen?
The decision of the past Government of Quebec to reverse course and order a BAPE review was a financial disaster for Questerre and others. Having lost much of our stock value due to well delays, we lost most of the balance, when the BAPE stunned us with its recommendations. The BAPE was so independent that […]
Promised Land portrays Farmers as dupes
I think the underlying premise of Matt Damon’s new fictional account on the impacts of fracing is insulting to farmers. Well its pretty insulting to oil and gas people too but other than my mom no one is going to feel sorry about that. The premise is farmers are vulnerable people who like gullible senior […]
Top ten things we can all agree on
All this talk of 4,000 Quebecers signing a petition committing to civil disobedience is exciting. Living with a false sense of conflict is stimulating. Debunking the allegations of the bloqueux about local natural gas development is entertaining. It makes me hate to ruin everyone’s fun with my New Year’s wish for the Quebec energy debate. […]
Christmas two years later
My first blog was December 22, 2010 which was called “Even Norwegians Not Welcome?“. It talked about how our Company is primarily financed by and owned by shareholders in Norway. I thought it strange at the time that Quebec who has so much in common with Norway would not welcome Norwegian investment. I still can’t […]
What’s in your heart?
According to an old Dutch friend of mine, there is a Dutch saying that goes “what you say is what’s in your heart”. Basically it means what you say about other people can be a sign of what you yourself believe and how you behave. For example an unfounded accusation of duplicity could actually be […]
Joining the protestors
If you can’t beat’em – join’em.’ Last week, Lone Pine joined the protestors and launched its own protest. It’s on an issue dating back to the Magna Carta Libertatum. The issue of whether the King’s powers are arbitrary or limited. Lone Pine is not protesting in the streets or occupying city parks. Rather, in another […]
Andre left the building
Our sustainable development advisor Andre Boisclair just took a job as special envoy to New York. New York is the world’s largest financial center. They influence many things such as the interest rate on Quebec Government bonds. It’s an important job and I’m sure Andre will do Quebec proud. My wife and I met Andre in […]