The past two years have witnessed a sea change in the oil and gas business. Many players that rode the boom are now hurting badly while others continue to thrive. Here we take a 360-degree snapshot of who’s up, who’s down and who’s reinventing themselves as a result (more…)
We’re in the process now of putting together our annual “Best and Worst” feature for the December issue and, oh, what a year it’s been. Choosing our top 10 business stories of the year has never been so competitive. Do you go for the arrest of Calgary’s $400-million Ponzi schemers or Capital Power Corporation’s $500-million initial public offering? (more…)
No sooner had we dispatched our October issue, featuring a special report on innovation, to the printers than some counterintuitive news came to light. In contrast to the history of technology companies, ideas and talent leaving the province – a fact we sought solutions to in our cover story, “Building the Economy of Ideas” – we learned that Radient Technologies Inc. was relocating its operations from Ontario and British Columbia to the Edmonton Research Park. (more…)
It would be funny were it not so ominous for all of us the Alberta government’s belated reaction to the threat to it posed by shale gas. (more…)
In just a few short years, the conventional wisdom about natural gas has been upended by an unconventional resource. Here’s what it means for Alberta’s industry (more…)
