In Wisconsin, GOP pushes to end sulfide mining moratorium

Gov. Scott Walker voted to ban copper and gold mining in Wisconsin two decades ago. Now he may be asked to lift the one of-a-kind prohibition as his fellow Republicans push to continue opening up the state’s north woods to mining.

National Post | September 24, 2017 | 3:24 pm

Dawson City wants to designate worm-like piles of mine tailings as protected historical site

In what appears to be a first in Canadian history, a community is hoping to inaugurate mining waste as a protected historic site.

National Post | March 7, 2017 | 2:54 pm

Nuke the oilsands: Alberta’s narrowly cancelled plan to drill for oil with atomic weapons

Devised by California-based Richfield Oil Corporation, Project Oilsand was uncannily simple: Get an atomic bomb from the Americans and blow it up under Athabasca.

National Post | August 7, 2016 | 1:58 pm

Why Canada’s last great hope for the oilsands is no slam dunk

“If it’s built, it will be used and useful.”

National Post | September 29, 2015 | 4:51 pm

Oil sands advocate, tired of smears against Alberta, takes on celebrity activists in PR war

Realtor Cody Battershill has heard the stories of Calgarians travelling abroad being met with disgust when they tell people where they’re from. He’s watched a parade of celebrities — Neil Young, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Redford — come to Alberta to denounce Alberta.

National Post | September 23, 2014 | 2:45 pm

Anger and confusion after worst disaster in Canadian mining history darkens B.C. town

Since that cataclysmic event a cloud has hung over little Likely, a village of perhaps 350 huddled at the top of Quesnel Lake, 600 kilometres north of Vancouver.

National Post | September 16, 2014 | 3:27 pm

Mongolia’s ‘ninja miners’ help sate China’s lust for gold

In a hot, concrete hut filled with acetylene fumes, an elderly Mongolian miner struggles to contain her excitement as she plucks a sizzling inch-long nugget of gold from a grubby cooling pot and raises it to the light.

National Post | April 19, 2012 | 4:23 pm

Canadian mining company denies link to shooting death of protester in Mexico

Vancouver-based mining company Fortuna Silver says it has nothing to do with the shooting death of a protester in a town near the company’s mine site in Mexico.

National Post | January 26, 2012 | 6:56 am

Let Canada’s oil flow (through Keystone XL)

Political and regulatory process will finally overcome ecological hysteria and approve the transmission of oil from the Alberta oil sands to the Gulf of Mexico through the yet-to-be-completed Keystone XL pipeline.

National Post | October 2, 2011 | 12:44 pm

Conrad Black: Let Canada’s oil flow (through Keystone XL)

political and regulatory process will finally overcome ecological hysteria and approve the transmission of oil from the Alberta oil sands to the Gulf of Mexico through the yet-to-be-completed Keystone XL pipeline. It is nonsense, of course, that this

National Post | October 1, 2011 | 12:25 pm

Diplomatic post for Campbell comes with mandate to boost oil sands

One of Campbell's assignments will be to convince Britain and the European Union to back off plans to issue the so-called fuel-quality directive

National Post | August 16, 2011 | 7:27 am

Tarred by science

Some time before the end of this month, an expert panel appointed by the Alberta government is expected to unveil recommendations for a "world-class" system for monitoring the environmental impact of oil sands on the Athabasca River basin.

National Post | June 14, 2011 | 6:59 pm

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