BOE Report

1 week ago | boereport.com | Dan Rutherford

Almost 2 years ago, Birchcliff surprised many in industry by announcing a new land position at Elmworth. Testing out some new public data tools at BOE Intel (ask how you can get access here), we took a look at how those mineral rights have changed since that announcement on May 10, 2023. The map below shows a constantly evolving view of the company’s mineral rights position in the area, not uncommon for producers in the complex world of mineral rights tenure.

2 weeks ago | boereport.com | Terry Etam

Engaging Articles of the WeekMy reading list, and my fuse, are both quite short this week due to an irritating cold and an even more irritating public discourse arena. Get a grip people. But anyway here are two standouts that you may absorb as you wish, both equally relevant in my eyes. People are, not unreasonably, dumbfounded by Trump’s current actions and strategies.

2 weeks ago | boereport.com | Terry Etam

These are tough days for us that loathe politics, and loathe discussing them even more. How to empty a coffee shop. Oh, please, tell us how angry you are. Dying to know. Hmm, how odd, no one seems to be changing their minds even when someone goes to the bother of pointing out how stupid they are. Better try more decibels. And the nasty memes! Well done. KO’ed that guy! Look at you, ripping through the doom-scroll like Conan with a broadsword. I’ve been drawn into that crap before, and not going back.

2 weeks ago | boereport.com | Dan Rutherford

The Alberta Government brought in $5.1 MM on its April 2nd Crown land sale. In total, 9,456 hectares were sold at an average price of $543.79/ha. Click here to see the full land sale results on BOE Intel. It was a small and rather uneventful sale. The highest dollar bonus was for two small pieces of land west of Rocky Mountain House that each fetched $441,311. The buyer was Yangarra Resources, with both parcels of land comprising of 1 section (256 hectares) of rights.

3 weeks ago | boereport.com | Terry Etam

Engaging articles of the WeekAESO, the Alberta Electric System Operator, released their 2024 annual report in March, full of interesting statistics. No really. Particularly if you recall getting stung by sky high power bills such as December 2022, when power prices averaged $330/MWh ($0.33/KWh, in electricity bill speak). What’s happened to power prices since then is pretty incredible, in an inflationary world – power prices have crashed.