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What Was In The Water That Leaked From Oilsands Plant?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.27.2013 | Canada Alberta
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FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Oilsands giant Suncor says there was no bitumen in waste water that leaked from a burst pipe earlier this week.An email from th...

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Making the Environmental and Economic Point For Keystone XL

Greg Stringham | Posted 03.22.2013 | Canada Alberta
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Greg Stringham

As Canadian crude oil producers and the largest supplier of crude oil to the United States, we believe the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline between the two countries would strengthen our mutually advantageous relationship - the largest bi-lateral energy trading relationship in the world.

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'Growing Trend' For Canada's Oil Sands

CBC | Posted 02.07.2013 | Canada Politics
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The federal government has reached "a level of discomfort" with foreign investment by state-owned enterprises in Canada's energy sector. ...

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Giant Fence To Save Oilsands Caribou?

CP | Bob Weber, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.09.2012 | Canada Alberta
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EDMONTON - Penning wild caribou in the oilsands region is a recovery option for the species that should be considered, says a federal document that ec...

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Fort McMurray: Life Beyond Oil Sands

Theresa Wells | Posted 10.28.2012 | Canada Alberta
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Theresa Wells

There are also those who think that Fort McMurray is nothing but oil sands, nothing but workers in coveralls and enormous dump trucks, the landscape nothing but a sea of tailings ponds and smoke stacks. As with many things, though, the reality is nothing like the hype.

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Can The Oil Sands Make You Sick? Doctors Call For Study

CBC | Posted 10.15.2012 | Canada Alberta
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Doctors with the Canadian Medical Association are calling for more research into the health effects of resource extraction projects such as the Albert...

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Oil Sands: Native Millionaire Sees 'Economic Force' For First Nations

The Globe and Mail | Nathan Vanderklippe | Posted 08.14.2012 | Canada Business
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Dave Tuccaro is driving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, where he will plan the book tour he will mount after Christmas when his biography is released. ...

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Ex-PM Lays Into Mulcair Over Dutch Disease

CP | Dean Bennett, The Canadian Press | Posted 08.11.2012 | Canada Politics
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EDMONTON - Former prime minister Paul Martin added his name Monday to the list of leaders unhappy with recent remarks by federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcai...

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We Need a Better Recipe for Canada than Just Boiling It

Matt Price | Posted 06.05.2012 | Canada
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Matt Price

Paul Wells' recent Maclean's' cover story about "How Ottawa Runs on Oil" should be required reading because of the light it sheds on Harper's Canada. here's the rub with the new regime in a nutshell: it is predicated on cooking the planet.

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Alberta To Reap $1.2 Trillion From Oil Sands -- But What Does The Rest Of Canada Get?

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 03.27.2012 | Canada Business
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Alberta’s government will collect $1.2 trillion in royalties from the oil sands over the next 35 years, and emissions from oil and gas extraction ar...

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Bring Alberta Oil To Eastern Canadian Refineries, Senator Urges

CBC | Posted 05.26.2012 | Canada Business
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Refineries in Atlantic Canada should get the opportunity to process cheaper oil from Alberta, says P.E.I. Senator Mike Duffy. ...

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Canada To EU: Quit Hating

CBC | Posted 05.14.2012 | Canada Politics
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There is plenty of oil sands oil for all buyers and it's not dirtier than any other type of oil, Canada's Natural Resources Minister told...

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Feds' Environmental Report Slammed As 'Fictitious'

CBC | Posted 05.13.2012 | Canada Politics
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A report from the Commons environment committee has government MPs calling for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act to be "modernize...

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Tories Target Anti-Oil Sands Charities

CBC | Posted 05.06.2012 | Canada Politics
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Conservatives in the Senate want to change the tax laws regarding environmental groups in Canada who protest energy projects. ...

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McGuinty's Head Stuck in the Oil Sands

Kathryn Marshall | Posted 05.01.2012 | Canada
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Kathryn Marshall

Alberta's premier Alison Redford has been trying to drum up support for a Canada-wide energy strategy, one in which she'd like the whole country to work in concert to maximize the value of our plentiful energy assets. But when she asked for Ontario to join her with some simple, symbolic support for the oil sands, Premier McGuinty gruffly refused.

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Dream Weavers: Those Who Think Study Supports Oil Sands are Wrong

David Suzuki | Posted 04.02.2012 | Canada
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David Suzuki

It was inevitable that climate change deniers and some oil industry promoters would misinterpret a study by scientist Andrew Weaver recently that said burning coal was worse for the environment than the potential impact of the oil sands. The study says the opposite.

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Althia Raj

Tories Widen War With Green Charities

HuffingtonPost.com | Althia Raj | Posted 02.29.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA — Promising to reveal information that would make "your blood boil," a Conservative senator opened a new front in the federal government’s ...

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McGuinty Speaks Out Against Oil Sands

CP | Keith Leslie, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.28.2012 | Canada Politics
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TORONTO - Alberta Premier Alison Redford says Ontario counterpart Dalton McGuinty is being simplistic for suggesting a booming oilsands is bad news fo...

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Minister Slams Europe Over Oil Sands Ban Plan

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.17.2012 | Canada Politics
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CALGARY - Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver is calling a European effort to bar oil imports from Alberta's oilsands nothing more than gran...

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Harper Government Considers Green, Aboriginal Groups 'Adversaries': Documents

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.27.2012 | Canada Business
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Documents show the federal government considers environmental and aboriginal groups "adversaries" when it comes to the oilsands.The documents, obtaine...

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2011: The Year Of The Canadian Pipeline Battles

CP | Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.27.2012 | Canada Business
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CALGARY - Jackie Thomas says she'd stand in front of a bulldozer to stop the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline from being built across B.C. to th...

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Western Premiers To Push Ottawa For National Energy Plan

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.12.2012 | Canada Politics
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EDMONTON - Canada's three western-most premiers are heading to Ottawa to pitch new ways to harness the country's energy resources.No date has been set...

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Post-Durban: Time to Pull Our Heads Out of the Oil Sands

Andreas Souvaliotis | Posted 02.08.2012 | Canada Politics
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Andreas Souvaliotis

The world doesn't want us to stop pumping oil out of the oil sands anytime soon. But the vast majority of nations also want us to start playing nicer, to start acknowledging the changed reality, to start supporting their citizens' ambitions for a cleaner, more responsible future -- and we're not doing any of that.

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Canada Blasts EU In Oilsands Trade Spat

CBC | Posted 12.24.2011 | Canada Politics
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Canada's natural resources minister is criticizing the European Union over its plan to discriminate against Canadian oil derived from Alb...

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China Oil Giant Grabs Alberta Oilsands Producer For $2.1-Billion

CP | Posted 09.19.2011 | Canada Business
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THE CANADIAN PRESS -- CALGARY - Chinese oil company CNOOC Ltd. is making a major thrust into the Canadian oilsands business by agreeing to purchase st...

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