Category: International News

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is spot on: the new American tariffs will affect $1.5 billion of Alberta goods. The new Canadian counter-tariffs will affect $4.8 billion of the provincial economy.

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That is not a talking point. It is the arithmetic of an integrated energy market that Ottawa cannot wish away, and Washington already understands. Smith’s warning, circulating widely after her CBC Power & Politics appearance and a clip posted by Stephen Taylor, is blunt: Alberta businesses will be hurt more by Canada’s own counter-tariffs than […]

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What Are the Next Steps for Venezuela’s Oil Production?

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President Trump’s administration is in advanced talks with Venezuela’s interim government for what officials describe as a “massive” energy deal: a U.S. ownership stake or long-term lease covering 17 of the country’s most promising oil and gas fields holding about 90 billion barrels of proven reserves. That is nearly a third of Venezuela’s world-leading 300 […]

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Jeff Currie Dropping the Truth on CNBC

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Jeff Currie, founder and CEO of Real Macro and a veteran commodities strategist formerly of Goldman Sachs and Carlyle, appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box on August 26, 2026, and cut through the usual noise. The segment title said it plainly: “The Strait of Hormuz is just one of many choke points being squeezed right now.” […]

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Oil Will Find a Way

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In Jurassic Park, Dr. Ian Malcolm delivers one of cinema’s most memorable lines: “Life finds a way.” Nature adapts, persists, and routes around obstacles no matter how carefully the fences are built. In the summer of 2026, crude oil is doing the same thing. Blockades and attacks have choked the Strait of Hormuz and the […]

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Kathryn Porter sounds the practical alarm on the UK Grid

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Energy consultant Kathryn Porter, founder of Watt-Logic, has issued one of the clearest practical warnings yet about the United Kingdom’s electricity system. In her recent Daily Mail piece, she describes a nightmare scenario in which the National Grid collapses under the weight of Net Zero policies: supply-demand imbalance triggers cascading failures, plunging homes, businesses, hospitals, […]

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Will Turkey be impacted by a potential gas squeeze as new Iran sanctions kick in?

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Turkey faces heightened risk of disrupted natural gas supplies from Iran following the U.S. Treasury’s launch of an intensified economic isolation campaign against Tehran on August 24, 2026. As a key U.S. ally and Iran’s third-largest trading partner, Ankara must navigate secondary sanctions threats that could complicate or sever one of its major pipeline gas […]

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