Canada Oilsands

Scientists Concerned About Shell's Oilsands Expansion

CP | Bob Weber, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.26.2012 | Canada Alberta

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EDMONTON - Regulatory documents indicate federal scientists still have significant concerns over Shell's proposed Jackpine oilsands mine expansion eve...

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U.S. Democrats Take Tour Of The Oilsands

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.24.2012 | Canada Alberta

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FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Alberta's deputy premier is leading a tour of U.S. politicians through the oilsands. Thomas Lukaszuk showed several Democratic...

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First Nation Pans Oilsands Environment Plan

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.24.2012 | Canada Alberta

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FORT CHIPEWYAN, Alta. - A First Nation says Alberta's plan to balance the oilsands and the environment ignores the concerns of people who live in a re...

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Indonesia Wants More Trade In Canada, But Not Oil

CP | Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.23.2012 | Canada Business

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OTTAWA - Indonesia is eager to boost trade with Canada, but the South Asian country isn't interested in two of the Harper government's top priorities ...

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Aboriginals On The Oilsands: Alberta, Ottawa Haven't Kept Their Promises

CP | Bob Weber, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.11.2012 | Canada Politics

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EDMONTON - A "world-class" environmental monitoring program being set up in northern Alberta's oilsands region is being heavily criticized even before...

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Harper Refuses To Leak Pipeline Position

CBC | Posted 10.07.2012 | Canada Politics

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is defending the independence of the environmental review process underway for Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline, tel...

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What If Nobody Wanted Canada's Oil?

HuffingtonPost.com | Daniel Tencer | Posted 07.25.2012 | Canada Business

The talk coming out of Canada’s oil patch in recent months has been increasingly tinged with panic. Industry leaders are growing worried about the o...

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We Need a Canadian -- Not an Albertan -- Energy Strategy

Keith Brooks | Posted 09.24.2012 | Canada Politics

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Canada's premiers are meeting this week at the Council of the Federation and a Canadian energy strategy will be on the agenda. A sensible strategy would be one that works for all Canadians, both present and future -- not just Alberta.

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Conditionally Approved!

CP | John Cotter, The Canadian Press | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada Business

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EDMONTON - Regulators have conditionally approval the first proposal to pump greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta's oilsands deep into the ground.The...

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Why Chinese Investors Fear Canada's Oil Patch

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 09.04.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Canada is missing out on billions of investments from cash-rich China because of Ottawa's confusing foreign takeover rules, says a report fro...

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How Long Will Cleanup Take? Who Knows

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 08.16.2012 | Canada

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DICKSON, Alta. - People with homes on an Alberta lake where oil from a pipeline leak flowed say the company that owns the pipe still can't say for sur...

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Canada Wins 'Fossil' Award

CP | Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press | Posted 08.15.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - A fresh round of global environment talks has just begun, and Canada has the dubious distinction of being the second country to receive a "Fo...

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Canada Missing Out On Tens Of Thousands Of Green Jobs: Report

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 06.12.2012 | Canada Business

Canada will not see significant employment gains from the oil boom in the western part of the country, and should turn to development of green energy ...

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Oil Spill Could Have Been Much Worse: Pipeline Owner

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 08.10.2012 | Canada Politics

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CALGARY - A representative for the company whose pipeline spilled hundreds of thousands of litres of oil into an Alberta river suggests there were two...

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Mulcair's Oilsands Position 'Hypocritical'

CBC | Posted 08.09.2012 | Canada Politics

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Preston Manning is calling out "hypocritical" federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair for "preaching" to Alberta while turning a blind eye to the ...

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Fresh Water Trucked In Following Alberta Oil Spill

CP | John Cotter, The Canadian Press | Posted 08.09.2012 | Canada Politics

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DICKSON, Alta. - People downstream of an oil pipeline breach in west central Alberta are worried but hopeful the spill won’t seriously damage the Re...

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Another Oil Spill In Alberta

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 08.08.2012 | Canada Business

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SUNDRE, Alta. - Crews were scrambling Friday to contain and clean up a pipeline spill that is believed to have sent up to 475,000 litres of crude oil ...

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Special Interest Groups: We Need To Get Canadian Oil To Asia

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 08.06.2012 | Canada Business

VANCOUVER - Canada needs to explore development of a public-private energy transportation corridor to export oil and gas to the Asia-Pacific region, s...

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Good News For Fish Near The Oil Sands?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 08.04.2012 | Canada Business

A newly published study is casting doubt on findings that mercury levels are increasing in fish near Alberta's oilsands.The study by two Environment C...

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Someone's A Hot Topic For Western Leaders

CP | Dean Bennett, The Canadian Press | Posted 08.17.2012 | Canada British Columbia

EDMONTON - The environment, energy and federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair are on the agenda Tuesday when leaders of the western provinces and territories ...

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Mulcair: Rising in the East, Setting in the West?

J.J. McCullough | Posted 07.17.2012 | Canada

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In this week's editorial pages we got to meet Thomas Muclair, SCARY ENEMY OF NATIONAL UNITY when he railed against the Alberta oil industry. All the western premiers quickly fired back, calling Mulcair's grasp of economics "tenuous and "goofy." But some are conceding that Muclair is being pretty damn "clever" in rejecting one of the dominant pieces of conventional wisdom in post-Harper Canadian politics: that you need the West to win.

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Who's Funding Oilsands 'Educational' Tours For Teachers?

CP | Bob Weber, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.12.2012 | Canada Business

EDMONTON - An industry-funded program that offers high school teachers a six-day trip to Fort McMurray to "experience Alberta's oilsands" is being exp...

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Oil Sands Three-Quarters Foreign-Owned: Enviro Group

CP | Posted 05.10.2012 | Canada Business

An environmental group that has come under fire for its anti-oilsands work is pointing out how many of the benefits of Canada's energy industry flow o...

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TransCanada To Reapply For Keystone Permit: Report

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 07.03.2012 | Canada Business

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CALGARY - TransCanada won't confirm a report in the Washington Post that it will reapply for its controversial Keystone XL pipeline as soon as Friday....

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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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