August 10, 2012 Time to pull the plug on the Enbridge Northern Gateway fiasco Days after the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board issued a scathing report on the company’s incompetent response to a Michigan oil spill, Enbridge issued a statement saying that it is…
July 25, 2012 Suncor to delay joint venture oil sands projects Billions of dollars in joint venture projects with partner Total E&P Canada will be delayed, said Suncor Energy’s new chief executive Steve Williams on Wednesday, as both companies are analyzing…
July 22, 2012 Alberta pipeline review to assure Canadians, minister says A review of pipeline regulations ordered today by the Alberta government is not specifically meant to reassure critics of the Northern Gateway pipeline but if it does, all the better,…
July 6, 2012 Opec’s gift to oil sands producers: high oil prices Canadian oil sands producers battling high development costs are getting help from an unlikely quarter: Saudi Arabia and its OPEC allies.
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…
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