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…
January 3, 2012 PetroChina takes over Canadian oil sands project Canadian oil producer Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. (TSX: ATH) has exercised its option to sell its remaining 40 per cent interest in the MacKay River oil sands project to Cretaceous,…
August 30, 2011 China wants to keep rare mineral export restrictions China said on Wednesday that it would appeal against a World Trade Organisation ruling that it illegally restricted exports of certain rare and speciality metals and minerals including bauxite, coking…
June 21, 2011 Flinders Mines drilling moves Pilbara Iron Ore Project closer to Measured Resource Flinders Mines is making strong progress with its drilling program at the Pilbara Iron Ore Project in Western Australia, with over 50 kilometres of drilling completed since the previous resource…
June 17, 2011 Lumina Copper Corp. and Lumina Royalty Corp. Announce Closing of Arrangement Lumina Copper and Lumina Royalty announced that they have closed their previously announced arrangement. Under the terms of a statutory plan of arrangement which received shareholder approval on June 7,…
June 16, 2011 Chemical giant Arkema partners with Canada Fluorspar on acidspar mine It's been a long time coming for some of Canada Fluorspar's (TSX-V: CFI) founding investors, but persistence appears to have paid-off. Arkema and Canada Fluorspar announced they signed a definitive…
September 1, 2010 Insitu: Oil Sands Mining Goes Underground Think of oil sands mining, and images of mammoth machinery, digging and hauling bitumensoaked sand from pits to processing plants, immediately spring to mind. The procedure is […]
Legal analysis: What Project Vault means for critical minerals regulation White House confirmed the start of the project, which would combine $1.67B in private capital with a $10B loan from the US Export-Import Bank to buy and store minerals. February 16, 2026 | 11:16 am
