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Alberta Oilsands

The Shocking History Behind Alberta Oil Spills

The Huffington Post Alberta | Posted 05.22.2013 | Canada Alberta

Alberta has had an average of two crude oil spills a day, every day, for the past 37 years, according to a report by Leslie Young at Global News. T...

What the Hell is Going on in Fort McMurray?

Theresa Wells | Posted 05.17.2013 | Canada Alberta
Theresa Wells

What the hell indeed is going on in Fort McMurray, you might ask. How did I get to spend time talking to Malcolm Gladwell, and Bill Cosby? What is bringing these people so far north? Well, what is bringing them is the Northern Insights speaker series from the Fort McMurray Public Library - but I think what is really drawing them in is the narrative of this community.

Push For A West-East Pipeline

CP | Joe McFarland, CHQR, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.14.2013 | Canada Alberta

CALGARY - A New Brunswick mayor says it's important that producers understand the advantages of a pipeline that would carry western crude oil to easte...

Alberta Needs This From The B.C. Election

The Huffington Post Alberta | Posted 05.13.2013 | Canada Alberta

British Columbia's looming provincial election is expected to affect the fate of Alberta's pipelines going west, including the Northern Gateway pipeli...

Industry Gets Government Cash To Capture Carbon

CP | Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.10.2013 | Canada Alberta

CALGARY - The federal government, an oil giant and a biofuels company are teaming up to build a $19-million plant in northern Alberta that will use ca...

'There's No Such Thing As Ethical Oil'

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 05.08.2013 | Canada Business

Former U.S. vice president Al Gore has torn a strip off the "ethical oil" campaign favoured by some backers of Canada's oil sands, telling an audience...

WATCH: Oil Tycoon Thanks Alberta For Making Him So Rich

The Huffington Post Alberta | Posted 05.07.2013 | Canada Alberta

Ever wonder how the world's oil tycoons feel about the royalty they are charged by the Alberta government? Movie theatre-goers can find out this month...

'Have A Right To Know'

CP | John Cotter, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.07.2013 | Canada Alberta

EDMONTON - The New Democrats say it's time for the Alberta government to release a report on the safety of oil and natural gas pipelines in the provin...

Former Liberal PM Headed South To Talk Keystone XL

CP | Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada Alberta

CALGARY - A former Liberal prime minister says he plans to head to Washington, D.C., to speak out in favour of the Keystone XL pipeline.John Turner, w...

Research Group Gives Oilsands 2 Out Of 7

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada Alberta

CALGARY - An environmental policy research group says Alberta's oilsands industry has made only limited progress on reducing the impacts of its develo...

Charges In Second Biggest Spill In Alberta History

CP | Bob Weber, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.26.2013 | Canada Alberta

EDMONTON - The Canadian arm of a U.S.-based pipeline company is facing environmental charges related to a massive leak that spilled millions of litres...

Despite Toxic Findings, Ottawa Won't Investigate Spill

CP | Bob Weber, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.25.2013 | Canada Alberta

EDMONTON - Environment Canada has ruled out any further federal investigation of a recent toxic spill from Suncor's oilsands plant into the Athabasca ...

A Pipeline To The Arctic?

CBC | Posted 04.23.2013 | Canada Alberta

The Alberta government is looking at yet another pipeline option to get its oil to market should the Keystone XL or Northern Gateway pipeline proposal...

Did The Oilsands Do This To This Deer? (GRAPHIC)

The Huffington Post Alberta | Posted 04.23.2013 | Canada Alberta

An image of a dead deer that went viral on the Internet last week has nothing to do with the Alberta oilsands, according to wildlife experts. WARNI...

Will Public Oilsands Data Be Transparent, Or Just Propaganda?

CP | Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.22.2013 | Canada Alberta

OTTAWA - Interested Canadians can now freely access environmental data from the oilsands now that the federal and Alberta governments have opened up a...

Oliver Cautiously Optimistic Keystone Will Happen

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.18.2013 | Canada Alberta

CALGARY - Despite a dramatic improvement in the price Alberta producers get for their crude oil in recent months, Natural Resources Minister Joe Olive...

Keystone XL Emissions Equal 51 Coal-Fired Power Plants: Report

The Huffington Post Alberta | Posted 04.16.2013 | Canada Alberta

The Keystone XL pipeline will result in emissions equal to that of 51 coal-fired power plants, states a new report by environmental group Oil Change I...

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...

Redford Has Been To Washington How Many Times?

CP | Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.12.2013 | Canada Alberta

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Alison Redford said she's not worried that her frequent trips to Washington, D.C., to promote the Keystone XL oil pipeline w...

Redford, Kent Boast Canadian Environmentalism

CP | Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.10.2013 | Canada Alberta

WASHINGTON - Alberta Premier Alison Redford and federal Environment Minister Peter Kent converged on Washington on Wednesday, singing the gospel of Ca...

WATCH: Keystone XL War Heats Up

The Huffington Post Alberta | Posted 04.09.2013 | Canada Alberta

Alberta is releasing advertisements promoting the Keystone XL pipeline in U.S. publications as Premier Alison Redford travels to Washington to lobby f...

Will 40/40 Take the Heat off Edmonton?

Merran Smith | Posted 04.08.2013 | Canada Alberta
Merran Smith

The climate and energy challenge is frequently portrayed as a world of absolutes. We are either doomed, or salvation is just around the corner. We have either missed the narrow window to forestall disaster, or are told it is premature to act in the face of persistent uncertainties.

New Climate Change Policy In Alberta?

CP | Bob Weber, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.04.2013 | Canada Alberta

EDMONTON - Environment Minister Diana McQueen says Alberta is a long way from imposing higher carbon levies on its energy industry.Responding to a sto...

Oil Industry Insider Hired To Monitor Environmental Rules

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.02.2013 | Canada Alberta

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has chosen an oil industry veteran to head up a new board in charge of monitoring environmental rules.Gerry Protti h...

Oilsands Giant Given Deadline

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.28.2013 | Canada Alberta

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has given Suncor one month to fix problems with one of its wastewater treatment ponds, two years after the problem w...