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Canada Oilsands

For The Wealthy 20-Somethings Of 'Oilsands City,' Hard Times Are Hard To Understand

The Huffington Post Canada | Morgan Modjeski | Posted 03.06.2012 | Canada Business

FORT McMURRAY, Alta. -- As young Canadians across the country struggle to find steady work and good wages, there is a group of young people living in ...

McGuinty Speaks Out Against Oil Sands

CP | Keith Leslie, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.28.2012 | Canada Politics

TORONTO - Alberta Premier Alison Redford says Ontario counterpart Dalton McGuinty is being simplistic for suggesting a booming oilsands is bad news fo...

Minister Slams Europe Over Oil Sands Ban Plan

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.17.2012 | Canada Politics

CALGARY - Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver is calling a European effort to bar oil imports from Alberta's oilsands nothing more than gran...

John D. Rockefeller Rolls Over in Grave as Heirs Attack Canadian Oil

Kathryn Marshall | Posted 04.06.2012 | Canada
Kathryn Marshall

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund makes no bones about what it is colluding with environmental groups to do. It's a well-funded plan, at that: The New York strategists would spend tens of millions of dollars to fund their attack on Canadian industry.

If We're Planning Pipelines, Why Is Canada Importing Oil?

CBC | Posted 03.26.2012 | Canada Politics

Proposals to build new pipelines to carry oilsands crude to the United States, or through British Columbia for export to Asia, have sparke...

PM's Office Accused Of Calling Environmental Charity 'Enemy Of The State'

CP | Bob Weber, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.25.2012 | Canada Politics

A former employee of an environmental group critical of a proposed oilsands pipeline says the Prime Minister's Office threatened a funding agency if i...

China Wants Our Oil

CP | Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.24.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - China wants to forge a "win-win" energy partnership with Canada that would set an example for the world, while also satisfying its "huge" dem...

Pipeline-Opposing 'Foreign Special-Interest Groups' Also Gave To Canadian Government

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.23.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Rich American foundations are not only footing the bill for opposition to Canada's oilsands.Tax returns show the Canadian government has also...

Oilsands' Carbon Footprint Growing

CBC | Posted 02.15.2012 | Canada

The intensity of oilsands carbon emissions — the amount of greenhouse gases created per every barrel of oil produced — increased by t...

Desmond Tutu Gets On Harper's Case Over Climate Talks

CP | Posted 01.29.2012 | Canada

Canada has received a public scolding for its climate-change policy from several prominent South Africans, including anti-apartheid hero Archbishop De...

U.K. 'Partner In Crime' On Oil Sands

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.27.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - A British media report says the U.K. government has been giving secret support at the very highest levels to Ottawa's campaign against Europe...

Canada Blasts EU In Oilsands Trade Spat

CBC | Posted 12.24.2011 | Canada Politics

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

Minister Chides EU For Singling Out Oilsands

CP | Posted 12.23.2011 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Canada's natural resources minister is taking the European Union to task over its proposal to discriminate against crude from the Alberta oil...

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...

Ottawa In The Dark On Oil Sands: Auditor

CP | Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.04.2011 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Canada's environmental record was dealt a double blow on Tuesday, with a scathing federal audit and a European Commission decision to blackli...

Are The Oil Sands Causing Cancer?

CBC | CBC | Posted 10.19.2011 | Canada

A long-awaited Alberta Health study into the health of people living downstream from the oilsands, where cancer rates are higher than nor...

U.S. House To Vote On Keystone Pipeline Bill Tuesday

CP | Posted 09.25.2011 | Canada

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives are slated to vote Tuesday on a bill that would force U.S. President Bara...

China Shelling Out $2.1 Billion For Opti Canada -- And A Slice Of The Oil Sands

CP | Posted 09.19.2011 | Canada Business

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- CALGARY - China's largest offshore energy producer is preparing to snap up Opti Canada Inc. in a $2.1-billion deal announced Wed...

Oil Sands, Environment And The Future Of Canada's Energy

CP | Posted 09.18.2011 | Canada Politics

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- KANANASKIS, Alta. - Ministers emerged from a summit on Tuesday with a rough outline of what a pan-Canadian approach to energy wi...

Alberta Seeks More Keystone Pipeline Support

CBC | Posted 09.08.2011 | Canada Politics

CBC -- Alberta's energy minister says he's going to push the federal government to more actively promote TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline to the Ame...

Oilsands To Blame For Caribou Decline Says Fecal Study

The Canadian Press | Posted 08.22.2011 | Canada Business

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- Humans, not wolves, are behind declining caribou populations in Alberta's oilsands region, an analysis of animal feces shows. ...

Tories Drop Oilsands Pollution Data From Report

The Ottawa Citizen | Posted 07.30.2011 | Canada Politics

The federal government has acknowledged it deliberately excluded data indicating a 20 per cent increase in annual pollution from Canada’s oilsands i...