The divergence in natural-gas and crude-oil prices has gone to an extreme. Natural-gas prices have fallen below $4 (U.S.) per million British thermal units while crude oil prices have shot up and are hovering close to $70 (U.S.) a barrel, leaving the ratio of oil-to-gas prices nearly double the historic ...

You can always tell when the media has a new flavour of the month. Today, Jeff Rubin is it, thanks to the release of his new book, not to mention his recent departure as CIBC World Markets' chief economist and chief strategist.

Wow. That didn't take long. After the price of oil crashed with the onset of the Great Recession, the price of crude is already back up to US$60. Gasoline prices are already on the rise, and that’s worrying.

It was interesting to hear the always-estimable Rick MacInnes-Rae interview Robert Hirsch on CBC national this past Sunday. Rick is a steady and reassuring voice on foreign policy and big issues, and so the fact he was interviewing Hirsch, the author of the key report on Peak Oil,  the aptly-named ...

In a recent issue of Canadian Business we ran a story quoting Jim Gray, the former CEO of Canadian Hunter Exploration. At the time he said he was worried about the possibility of declines in liquid fuels production as a result of ongoing depletion in many of the world's ...