Steve Ward

Dave Forest: Stick with Proven Track Records and Potential for Discovery

The one thing this article pointed ouit to me is forget the price of gas and when it will return, buy only companies, in this case E&P's, that have very low debt to their market piers.
You can make money that way in case the bad turns to worse and can afford to wait for the upturn.
Only one problem, There doesn't appear to be any E&P's fitting the bill.

Hydro Power: The Underloved Energy Source

I agree that new hydro projects probably will not be built. But several engineers have stated that upgrades to the current hydro network could produce a 10 to 12 percent increase in power generation from the current hydro base load.

As far as the Obama Admin goes, all they are funding are pseudo religous beliefs on energy renewal. No science here, just a junk science religous belief about how things should be.

New U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Displacing Canadian Gas

To prairiedog555, you are right on the nat gas to fuel transportation and right no one is listening. Don't feel bad I worked for years for the Republicans and from 1998 to 2006 they spent money like a drunken sailor and had few family values.

Why I've Waited to Buy Natural Gas

Gas maybe down for the long term as well. Wood McKenzie cites 25 trillion cubic feet a year over capacity being built in Asia. True, the projects maybe cancelled but so many are half way done or nearing completion by the end of 2010.

Exxon cites that its 3 new trains comming on line will be able to make a profit with only $3.00 gas, that includes transportation. The profits come out of Exxon stripping higher profit NGL's from the raw gas stream.
USA now faces a possible dependency on imported natural gas. Particularly, if the Obama admin gets involved with the water issues involving shale gas.

Investing in the Pickens Plan, One Year Later

Bindlepete has therightidea,turnNGtol... wholeinfrastructure on re-fueling is based on a liquid product beingtransported by tanker,barge, pipeline or truck.

Notice all the exotic ideas arebrimming full with new infrastructure,lousy science and things that go bump in the night.It'sall crap.

Windpower you say,bah humbug,just ask Teddy Kennedy.

"Roses are red,violets are blue, don't stick that windmill in here to screw up my view."
Swift boating, waterboarding,nobody's dead from it yet but we still got this energy problem.

Silver and Oil: Shiny and Rare

Lech Walesa, the former President of Poland, once said, "communism ( read socialism) is such a lousy system that if you put it in the middle of the Sahara Desert, that within 3 years the commissars would be telling you that they have run out of sand.

Supreme Court Rules Against Banks: A Win for Consumer Protection

Apparently Justice Scalia still believes in State's Rights as a legal means to blunt the power of the Ferderal Government. Of course there is downside to it, like fairness in lending. Who'd a thunk of that.

Scalia is sending a signal to his other Justices, that signal being: With the Obama Administration grabbing for un precedented power, states rights are valid to protect the citizens from onerous power of the Feds.

States Rights have been much maligned the last 4 decades due to their mis-use as in regards to voting rights but they are still valid constitutionally and Scalia just proved it.
We are a Constitutional Federal Republic of individual States, we are not a Democracy. One conservative Justice understands that.

The Fall in Natural Gas Is Over

The traders are still befuddled why gas is so cheap.
Therefore, instead of understanding the reasons,lets rail against it with other people's money.

Obama Goes Full Court on Energy Legislation

Obama, himself, has stated consumer costs will go up on a cap and trade system. so what's the big deal. The Dems pass the legislation and then don't enforce it. They do that alot. Pay homage to the greenies and not put teeth in the bill so the "folks back home" don't have to pay up. Otherwise, can you say "Republican Majority Congress".

Mass Migration and Water Problems

The counties in the heart of the Barnett shale have predicted a water shortage for 2010 due to demand from population increase, farming and ranching, still a mainstay of economic growth for the region and the huge water demands for hydro fracturing the shale for gas production.

As I see it, gas prices rise due to enviro concerns on lack of water and water pollution from shale fracturing in all the shale areas.
Who would have thunk it, higher gas prices due to water concerns

Penn West Transitions to Exploration and Production Company

PWE 's unit holders would be better off if the company reduced its payout to zero and used the funds for reserve purchases and debt reduction. The result will be a price appreciation in the units greter than the current annual yield.

Consider Royal Dutch Shell for Conservative Total Return

Very reasonable. I like it.

Top U.S. Utilities Grow Solar Power Despite Recession

All of this and I mean all of this, is to head off carbon taxes with an offset, nothing more.
They are protecting their base power infrastructure out of necessity.

Talisman Energy Could Split into Two - UBS

Permit me to present the opposite view. Talisman is indeed a long term hold. However, splitting it up goes against the original logic, shared by CNRL and Nexen, to spread your assets around the world to guard against a Chavez type result. It may hurt the company to lose some assets but it doesn't kill the company.
Also, when oil was at $140.00 per barrel, none of these companies were trading at a " full value" price. Almost all were trading at a 70 to 80 dollar barrel price as far as stock price.
Talisman should maintain its multi-legged stool, so to speak. It's one of the reasons investors buy the stock.

Energy Trust's Q1 - At Least It's Over

The above list does not contain any Canroys that trade on the NYSE or AMEX, all on the TSE. For American investors, at least the average retail buyer, the TSE is somewhat of a mystery to them.
For the last several years the big names on the NYSE have not performed as well as the TSE only listings.