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Oilsands Water Leak Proves Toxic

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.15.2013 | Canada Alberta

EDMONTON - Water released from a pipeline spill at an oilsands facility in northern Alberta was toxic to fish, a provincial investigation has conclude...

Suncor Spills Diesel Into B.C. Inlet

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.11.2013 | Canada British Columbia

PORT MOODY, B.C. - A spill from a tank at a Suncor Energy plant in Burnaby, B.C., wasn't fuel at all but has still set off alarm bells with local Firs...

Oilsands Pond Leak Releases Tainted Water

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.26.2013 | Canada Alberta

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Waste water that spilled at an oilsands plant in northern Alberta has been released into a nearby river.The leak was discovered...

Massive Oilsand Processing Project In Jeopardy

CP | Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.07.2013 | Canada Alberta

CALGARY - Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU) reported a fourth-quarter net loss as it took a big charge related to its long-shelved and economically "challen...

Lack Of Pipelines Keeps Our Economy Captive To The U.S.: Former Energy Chief

CBC | Posted 03.17.2013 | Canada Alberta

Alberta won’t see its next provincial budget until the legislature resumes March 7, but the premier and finance minister are sending strong signals ...

Energy Giant Fights To Randomly Drug Test Oilsands Workers

The Huffington Post Alberta | Posted 01.03.2013 | Canada Alberta

Suncor Energy's attempt to randomly test thousands of its oilsands workers for drugs and alcohol is back under scrutiny as proceedings began again thi...

How Many Billions Will Suncor Pump Into Oilsands Next Year?

CP | Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.02.2013 | Canada Alberta

CALGARY - Oilsands giant Suncor Energy Inc. said Monday it has set a $7.3-billion capital spending budget for 2013 and that it plans to make a decisio...

Ulterior Motive For West-To-East-Pipeline?

CP | Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.30.2013 | Canada Business

Environmental groups have mounted a campaign against a plan to ship western crude to Quebec, saying it's just one step towards creating an eastern rou...

How An Orchestra Found Success With an Oil Company

Joel Garten | Posted 01.12.2013 | Canada Music
Joel Garten

Alex Pauk had his start in new music as the founder of Array Music, a performing and composing group active in Toronto, which at first began to meet in his apartment. He soon had the ambition to start a new music orchestra. Through a stroke of good luck, Pauk's partner Alexina Louie sat beside an executive of Suncor, the oil company, at a gala event.

Spending Down At Suncor.. By A Lot

CP | Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.31.2012 | Canada Alberta

CALGARY - Suncor Energy Inc. says its capital spending in 2012 will be $850 million lower than previously planned.Canada's largest energy company (TSX...

Suncor Wants Random Drug Testing For Workers, Court Denies

CP | John Cotter, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.23.2012 | Canada Alberta

EDMONTON - Suncor Energy has lost another legal round in its plan to randomly test thousands of unionized oilsands workers in Alberta for drugs and al...

Ex-CEO: U.S. Has Too Much Power Over Canada's Energy Policy

CP | Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.12.2012 | Canada Business

CALGARY - Building pipelines to connect Alberta crude to West Coast ports is a matter of Canadian sovereignty, says the former CEO of Canada's biggest...

Suncor Funded Studies Find Little Long-Distance Impact From Oilsands Mines

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.09.2012 | Canada Alberta

EDMONTON - A pair of recently published studies question the long-distance environmental impact of the oilsands.The two studies from the University of...

8 Facts About Tailings Ponds

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 10.04.2012 | Canada Alberta

Two oilsands companies, Syncrude and Suncor, will not be facing charges for the deaths of hundreds of ducks in tailings ponds they own. The Crown sai...

Energy Giant's Defence Case Too Strong

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 10.04.2012 | Canada Alberta

The companies involved in a case that saw 550 ducks killed when they landed in an Alberta oilsands tailings pond have too-strong a defence, which is w...

No Need for Manners in Nexen Deal, Canada

Diane Francis | Posted 12.02.2012 | Canada Business
Diane Francis

Clearly, China is testing whether this Boy Scout of a nation will roll over. Turning down Nexen should be mark the beginning of a Canadian conversation about governance. Canada must decide what kind of table will be set to encourage investment here, who will be invited to dine and how guests must behave. Otherwise, Canada itself will become dinner. There should be no compromise and a turndown need not be difficult, won't burn any bridges and can be done elegantly in this way.

Oil Sands Employment Firm Ripped Us Off, Complainants Say

CBC | Posted 10.21.2012 | Canada Business

Complaints are building against a Nova Scotia company claiming to help people find work on the oilsands in Alberta. For around $200, Albe...

Random Drug And Alcohol Testing In Oilsands

CBC | Posted 08.21.2012 | Canada Business

Tens of thousands of workers in the Alberta oilsands could soon be subject to random alcohol and drug testing under a two-year pilot project. ...

Canadian Heads Offices Under Chinese Siege

Diane Francis | Posted 07.04.2012 | Canada Business
Diane Francis

Put another way, allowing a large head office to be acquired allows foreigners to acquire pieces of the country's upside, its living standards, reputation, opportunity, tax base, intellectual property, and networks. This is like selling the family jewels.

Suncor Gets Hefty Fine For Gas Price Fixing

CBC | Posted 06.13.2012 | Canada Business

Suncor Energy Products Inc. has agreed to pay a $500,000 fine for price-fixing at some of the company's gas stations in Ontario. ...

Calgary Energy Company Charged Over Newfoundland Spill

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 06.04.2012 | Canada Business

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) faces three federal charges relating to a reported spill of synthetic-based mud from an offshore drilling ri...

Oilsands Producers Plan Reconstruction Of Wetlands

CP | Bob Weber, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.11.2012 | Canada Business

EDMONTON - Alberta's oilsands producers are used to thinking big, and their plans to clean up the mess their mines leave behind are fully in line with...

Canadian Oil Giant Withdrawing From Syria

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.10.2012 | Canada Politics

CALGARY - Canadian oil giant Suncor Energy Inc. says it is pulling out of Syria in order to comply with new international sanctions aimed at further i...

Separating Oil and State

Cameron Fenton | Posted 12.20.2011 | Canada Politics
Cameron Fenton

In Canada, corporate greed in our nation can be directly connected to the destruction of the natural world, perhaps most visually apparent in the tar sands. If the Occupy movement is going to break corporate control, we need to start where it is most apparent in our government. We need to "separate oil and state."

Fight Brewing Over Temporary Workers In The Oilsands

CP | Dean Bennett, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.19.2011 | Canada Politics

EDMONTON - Alberta NDP Leader Brian Mason is demanding that Premier Alison Redford intervene with the federal government in a dispute over temporary f...