June 19, 2012

Canadian company claims it can make oil sands “green”

N-SolvCorp, a small Canadian company based in Calgary, claims it has developed a unique technology that will make Alberta's oil sands more profitable and environmentally sound.

June 4, 2012

Canadian and US-based groups shut websites to protest Harper’s pro-oil stance

Environmental and activist groups in Canada fold up their websites for a day on Monday to protest the government policies that will make it easier to build pipelines to transport…

May 28, 2012

Market Chatter: Oil India Eyes Stake in ConocoPhillips’ Canada Oil Sands

State-run explorer Oil India is looking at buying stake in ConocoPhillips' (COP.N) oil sand assets in Canada, as well as the Gabon assets of France's Maurel et Prom, Finance Director…

May 8, 2012

Canadian Oil Sands companies to help financing deadly highway improvements

Canadian Oil Sands companies are asking the government to upgrade the section of Highway 63 north of Fort McMurray, in the province of Alberta, which leads to several oil sands…

April 27, 2012

Mining, oil and gas led Canada’s growth in 2011

Statistics Canada revealed today that the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan led the country in economic growth in 2011, buoyed by the extraction and exploration of their natural resources.

April 13, 2012

Kinder Morgan goes ahead with its $5 billion pipeline expansion to Vancouver

Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMP) is going ahead with its planned $5 billion expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada, which brings crude oil from the Alberta oil sands to…

March 1, 2012

Canadian oil sands titans form information-sharing alliance

A group of twelve major Canadian oil sands producers, including some of the world's biggest energy companies, have reached an agreement to share unlimited information on environmental technologies, which sweeps…

March 1, 2012

Bill Clinton’s support to Keystone XL pipeline seen as votes-buying attempt

In a move seen as a clear attempt to build popularity, former U.S. president Bill Clinton called Americans to embrace TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline, only three days after the Calgary…

February 29, 2012

Canadian province of Ontario’s Premier tries to clarify oilsands remarks

Premier Dalton McGuinty says he wants to clarify comments he made that were taken as a slight to Alberta’s oilsands. Asked by Alberta Premier Alison Redford to publicly support her…

February 23, 2012

EU hesitates to qualify Canada’s oil sands as more polluting than crude

In the midst of intense lobbying from Canada, a committee of the European Union Parliament blocked passage of a proposed fuel quality directive that would label Canada’s oil sands as…